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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: One question I did not ask and one I did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: One is about the social welfare contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Is the social welfare contract only offered on a 12-monthly basis to each postmaster? Could Mr. McRedmond repeat the percentage of postmasters who voted to accept the package? Did Mr. McRedmond say 80%? I did not understand him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I asked a question that the Minister will not answer. Who gave the IPU the authority to take away post office services from rural Ireland? The IPU is entitled to represent its members but it has no mandate from anybody to close post offices in agreement with Mr. McRedmond, or the Minister, or anybody else. It is not mandated by anybody and I want an answer to that, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: My question was about the social welfare contract. Is it only awarded on an annual basis? Mr. McRedmond said 80% of IPU members voted to accept the deal. Who gave the authority to the IPU? It is entitled to represent its members, by all means, but it is not entitled to take away services from a village of the very customers who are supporting its members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I accept that. Mr. McRedmond did not answer the question about the percentage. I accept that they are businesses and are entitled to negotiate and their remuneration is not wonderful. They have signed up to a deal that has now removed the post office services from their community. They are being blamed for it but An Post acquiesced and dangled the package in front of them and gave them a...
- Air Services Agreements: Motion (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I hope they all have full licences.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: In the middle of the worst housing crisis ever, a mother of two children who refuses to make herself homeless has been incarcerated at Mountjoy for 70 days at the request of a vulture fund. When will we do something for Ms Yvonne Walsh and the many hundreds of people facing similar treatment over the summer? The banks and vulture funds will be relentless. Ms Walsh has written to both the...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Will the Tánaiste answer the correspondence from her?
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: There is nothing left to measure.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I do not want to disparage or scaremonger, but there is nothing left to measure, there is nothing left to cut and there is nothing left to harvest. This is unprecedented. The Minister of State, Deputy Doyle, is beside the Minister. He is a cereal grower. He knows about the stunting in growth. We know that spring barley is being cut with a foot of straw or less. There will be a huge...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We need action. Deputy Creed is the Minister; I am not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I have called for cohesive action and finance.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister can keep counting and doing censuses.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We need action, not words.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cohesive steps he plans to put in place to address the crisis pertaining to agriculture and wider economy in the context of the ongoing heatwave and dry spell and the impact they are having on the entire agricultural sector and the impending shortages there will be until spring 2019 for farmers who need to protect their animals...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to ask the Minister about the cohesive steps he is planning to put in place to address the crisis pertaining to agriculture and the wider economy in the context of to the ongoing heatwave and dry spell and the impact they are having across the entire agricultural sector. I also want to ask about his plans to deal with the impending shortages there will be until spring. Farmers who...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am very disappointed with the Minister's reply. We had this fodder crisis in the spring and I could quote to the Minister what was said then. He mentioned the idea of a census for food. There is no food because it has stopped growing. We all enjoy this hot weather but it is having a huge impact on grass, which is not growing. Second-cut silage has been cut to feed the animals and root...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Action. Not counting.