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Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: My first question is for the Minister of State, Deputy Brendan Griffin. Where is the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross? This is of his making. He is supposed to be the Minister with responsibility for tourism, but he knows nothing about the country. Dublin might be booming but the country outside it is not. I refer to the small publican who serves food, as well...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Capital Gains Tax (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I also want answers to the questions Deputy Howlin asked, so I will not labour the point. Why is there a panic to introduce this tonight if the implementation date is January 2020? We normally vote on issues which take effect at midnight and which , for various reasons, cannot be changed or moved. Why is the rate changing from 33% to 12.5%? Perhaps the Minister will be able to put us at...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I do not smoke and I do not like smoking, but we are tackling this the wrong way. We have continually put up the price budget after budget, but for people who are addicted or find it difficult to stop smoking, and especially for working-class or unemployed families, this price is savage and it puts huge pressure on all aspects of the household budget for food, clothes and general living...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Shame.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Our rural town centres are continuing to die on their feet. Just this week, yet another shop closed on the main street of Tipperary town, bringing the number of closed businesses on the street to more than 21. Most rural towns are the same. I have called for an extension of the living city initiative to rural towns to help bring life back to our town centres. I have also called for a...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I acknowledge that many of the measures introduced today by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, are extremely welcome. The across-the-board increases on all social welfare payments will be of benefit to a considerable segment of our population. However, the ordinary working man is getting a smaller increase than those on social welfare, and that is very unfair. It is wrong: we must...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: What happened the grannies?

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: What happened to grannies?

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is a black hole.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant schemes available from his Department or other Government bodies to a primary school in order to build a school hall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40644/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to end the two-tier system under which some school secretaries are employed as public service staff with full entitlements by his Department while others are employed by school boards of management and have no entitlements; his views on whether this two-tier system is discriminatory; the reason for the system; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Project Funding (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 442. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding is available for major projects such as the development of chair lifts and cable cars; if the development of such tourism projects will be supported in order to develop and promote hill walking tourism here similar to that across Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40731/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties Data (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 518. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant properties in the ownership of Tipperary County Council by district; the length of time the houses are vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40615/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Contracts (4 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: With no disrespect to the Minister of State, it is typical for her to come in and read out a reply on behalf of the Minister which is useless, toothless and fruitless. We are worried. Some 1,700 patients and their families are very worried. I pay tribute to the staff and the nurses who have kept the centre going, including the person who comes in to my own parish on a locum basis,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Contracts (4 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: A direct answer will do for us.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Contracts (4 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It has 1,700 patients.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Contracts (4 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is welcome to come and see it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Contracts (4 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am to share time with Deputy Butler. Fourmilewater Health Centre, which is located just across the border from me in County Waterford, serves the parishes of Ballymacarbry, my own parish of Newcastle in County Tipperary, The Nire and Ballinamult, Tooraneena and even further afield. It is a wonderful rural general practitioner, GP, service with 1,700 patients, 1,050 of which are private...