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Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Only two have been.

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to ask the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government about the differential rent scheme in County Tipperary, a matter I have already discussed with him. The county council has written to over 1,000 tenants telling them that they are facing huge increases in rent of 50%, 60% and 70% and threatening to charge thlem the maximum rent unless they engage. Does it need a statutory...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Unfortunately I do not think the Taoiseach gets it. We can quote all these numbers and statistics but right in front of his face is the pressure that is on principals and the mental health problems that are there at such a young age are frightening all of us or at least anyone that wants to listen and acknowledge it. I feel the Taoiseach does not appreciate the scale of the crisis facing...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Of course there was.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We do not have them.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: In a report in today's Irish Independent, the journalist, Katherine Donnelly, provides a detailed and disturbing analysis of a new study by Dr. Rosaleen McElvaney of the school of nursing and human sciences at Dublin City University. The analysis was funded by St. Patrick's mental health services. Dr. McElvaney found that primary schools are engaging with children, some as young as four...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Where is the Taoiseach living? Is he living at home?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Gender Equality (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the work of his Department's sub-committee of the management board on gender equality, equality and diversity established in 2016; the details of the events it has organised or participated in to celebrate and support equality and diversity domestically and through his Department's mission network overseas; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Animal Reproduction (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 161. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been cross-departmental collaboration between his Department and the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection with respect to proposed amendments or policy changes to the registration of births and birth certificates and the introduction of surrogacy services; if he will address concerns (details supplied); and if he will make a...

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on the motion this evening which I support. I compliment my Fianna Fáil colleagues on tabling the motion. I got very worried when I read in the motion that there are concerns that the Health Service Executive is seeking to remove the delivery of Dublin's ambulance service from Dublin Fire Brigade and instead to merge the service with the National Ambulance Service....

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to be back here this evening. I thank the officials and the Chair for allowing me to come back in. We have come to the Minister, Deputy Ross, numerous times on this Bill. Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom a rá, the reason we are back here is that the Bill was recommitted and the reason for that is the approach of the Minister. The Attorney General...

Apology for Persons Convicted of Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts: Motion (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to make a few brief remarks on this motion. I support the idea of a State apology for past wrongs committed in its name. The State has many things to apologise for. Perhaps the Taoiseach is trying to emulate the late Pope, St. John Paul the Great, who in 2000 made an international plea for forgiveness for the wrongs committed in the name of the church. It seems the State is...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government contains a commitment to improving the provision of mental health services. Tipperary, the county I represent, does not have one mental health bed. When will the Taoiseach cry "halt"? What does it mean when Dr. John Hillery, a consultant psychiatrist and president of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, says that he has been forced to resign his role within...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: That is a nakedly political comment.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Everything about the Taoiseach is spin.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He is only talking balderdash. All he sees in front of him are votes.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He will not speak.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I agree that we should have a debate on this appalling issue. We believe the House should have a wider debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the ongoing persecution of Christians and Muslim minorities. We seem to give-----