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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.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am not rambling at all; I am just telling the truth.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am talking about what is happening now.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Blame someone else.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Failure.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: As the Tánaiste is well aware, we are in the grip of the worst housing crisis in the history of the State. Despite report after report, promise after promise, and Minister after Minister with responsibility for housing, the emergency remains and families throughout the country continue to suffer in an awful way. Yesterday, the Taoiseach referred to the problem of supply and the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 334. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his Department collates data on the number of dangerous dogs that have been euthanised or killed in the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29788/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the local authority tenant purchase scheme; when it will be completed; his views on whether changes in the way in which the scheme is administered will ensure those that have the ability to pay, regardless of income, can purchase their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29726/18]

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I listened with interest to the contributions and I do not want an urban-rural divide in any shape or form. We need to mend those fences rather than have such division. As was said, we live on a small island and we have to live, work and manage together. I declare my interest as a small business person. It do not believe it is a crime. Deputy Healy-Rae, Deputy Michael Collins and myself...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I know that. I am making the comparison. It is part of it, a chathaoirligh. Road safety, the cutting back of roadside hedges and the felling of trees on the roadside are paramount. It must be done. As a young boy of only about seven, I was in a car one Saturday afternoon when a tree was felled. I was cut out of the car with my late mother and my late brother - they were not killed in...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It defies logic.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is coming from the same place.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is not for God's sake. It is reality.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Protect the birds and the eggs and kill the babies. The kill the baby brigade have no problem with that.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is a fact. They have no problem with that.