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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (10 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 370. To ask the Minister for Health if transport will be provided for a person (details supplied) to attend a facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30116/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (10 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 408. To ask the Minister for Health if transport services will be provided for a person (details supplied) to attend a facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30114/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (10 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 704. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protections in place to prevent the monopolisation of farm or agricultural land that has the effect of significantly limiting the capacity of small and medium sized farms to expand (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30090/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 776. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his policy on fossil fuel divestment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30597/18]

Business of Dáil (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: As a member of the Business Committee, I think it is very strange also. We are normally consulted.

Business of Dáil (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am a member of the Business Committee where we have had cordial working relations. If there are changes to be made, phone calls are usually made or consultations will take place. This is being done at a late hour. I do not object to more time as we need lots more time on the Bill. However, the manner in which it is being done is unfair and shoddy. It smacks of dictatorship by the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: In terms of what the Minister of State is saying, I alluded earlier to the different powers of Ministers and regulators. We have so many regulators for everything now, we can hardly count them and their staff or civil servants, as the Minister of State said. Most of them are not doing their job. If we take the regulator, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission and the whole lot...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Let me finish. That is a serious issue. We have too many of these intermediary officers and yet nobody is accountable. When the councillors made the plan, it was one of the only functions they had. They made the plan eventually and often got stick over it. Some may have lost their seats over it but they made it in good faith. It was the accepted plan. When people come to see me in my...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I too have major concerns about some amendments in this grouping. Spatial plans, area plans, county development plans and town plans are very important. I served on Tipperary County Council and had many engagements on such plans, as did many community groups. Some of the plans were very successful. Many of the community groups were genuine contributors rather than serial objectors. They...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It can.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I do. I will be brief. My apologies for not being present for the start of the debate. The Bill is necessary if we are to tidy up the agencies and ensure they are aware of issues. There are too many agencies, they are not working in unison and they are not cognisant of what is happening elsewhere. For example, the amendment reads: " ... the National Transport Authority in accordance with...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am not finished. Focal scoir, más é do thoil é.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I will conclude. The Minister of State should go back to the basics and get away from the Ponzi schemes. The Government, and other parties, got in bed with the developers and look what happened. We should support the small builder and allow the people who want to build houses themselves in rural Ireland build them. We will see then where we go from here.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I too am delighted to speak to this Bill. I have nothing personal against the Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy, but I would prefer to see a senior Minister in the Chamber, which would be the case if the Government was serious. I do not believe the Government is serious in any shape, make or form about dealing with the housing crisis. I raised on Leaders' Questions this morning the fact...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Of course, it has.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He is.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: On what planet is the Tánaiste living? I know that he wears spectacles, as do I. His must be much better than mine because I cannot see the houses. Certainly, I can see the homeless.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: As usual, the Government is full of bluster on this issue, but the time for excuses is over. The blame lies squarely on the Government's shoulders, without going back to Fianna Fáil. We could go back to the last century if we wanted to do so. As Joyce Fegan and Elaine Loughlin have reported in the Irish Examiner, while the Government has promised to deliver 3,800 new social houses in...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Government's record is a disgrace. Perhaps that is why the Taoiseach gets a little irritated with the media when journalists like Elaine McLoughlin and others expose the Government. They should expose it more because we have had plans and figures to beat the band but no houses. The Government does not seem to care or empathise or else there is another greater reason it does not want to...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: As am I. Obviously, the Tánaiste's glasses are better than mine.