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Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am talking about labelling and balance. All of the labels in the world could have been on the alcohol that night but it was sold all the same. It could have been labelled everywhere and labels wrapped around it but it would be sold. We are going after the wrong area and this proposal will make a serious and negative impact on employment, production, businesses and people who want to be...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am also concerned about this. Political correctness has gone mad. I looked at this matter carefully and did not submit any amendments, unlike my colleagues. I considered it, and the longer the debate went on, and the more the different political groupings ebbed and flowed, changing their minds before the heavy hands of the health spokespersons, the more I wondered about the democracy of...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. It is a small word.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am sure there will be a few people present here who will be launching books-----

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: -----in the years to come, and they will not be able to have a glass of wine at it. They will be dry launches; people will have to have MiWadi.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: There is nothing but "ifs", "ands" and "buts" here. There is everything except common sense.

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: There is nothing wrong with them at all. I said the British could not govern us because the county was too long and unwieldy. There is nothing at all wrong with them but, as I said, it is not workable because the county is too big. The officials and the councillors are travelling up and down at enormous expense and there are no savings. That is what is going on. The local authority is...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Teachta Boyd Barrett and his group for allowing me this time. From the outset, I opposed the abolition of town and borough councils and condemned it as a power grab by an arrogant and self-serving central Government. It was led by the captain of the ship, the Minister of State's former colleague, a former...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: "Phil the Enforcer", as I described him, and that is what he was. He left ruin after him. The Government, with the Labour Party a part of it, supported him. Deputy Howlin was a Minister at the time. I described him as being like the high priest because he would not listen to anyone. Deputy Howlin had a close family member who was a senior member of the Association of Municipal Authorities...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The promised legislation is on Rebuilding Ireland. The latest Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, report has raised further alarm bells about the impact of the housing crisis. The report highlights that there appears to be no end in sight to the pressure on rent prices. In particular, this pressure affects low-income families in the private rental sector. Apart from the human...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The question is on the ESRI's report that the rent for low-income families, along with all families, is increasing. The Rebuilding Ireland policy is failing, and we are losing our competitiveness because we cannot attract people back here to live and work.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Does the Taoiseach understand passion?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Well, the Minister did a good job of it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is looking at Tipperary through rose-tinted glasses. The real issue is in the Minister's last answer where she referred to the south-east region of Carlow, Kilkenny and Tipperary. In an earlier answer, she said we were in the mid-west region. That is the problem with Tipperary town. It is on the border of the mid-west and the south east. We are falling between all stools....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister should come back down and look at it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I asked about Tipperary town.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The question was specific.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It must be the water the Minister is on instead of the glasses.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she is taking to address the high levels of employment deprivation in County Tipperary, specifically Tipperary Town and its environs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39065/18]