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Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: They are going blind.

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister should stop digging when he is in a hole.

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Under the eighth amendment, Article 40.3.3°, I wish to ask the Minister about the referendum. We heard confirmation by French students in Galway university that they had been added to the voting register for the referendum despite being ineligible and despite having made no request to be added to the register of electors. The Taoiseach made reference to Google and its integrity in the...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (16 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 140. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of running the health service in each of the years 2011 to 2017 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21580/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (16 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of operating his Department in each of the years 2011 to 2017, excluding the HSE budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21581/18]

Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to express my sympathy to all of those Palestinian families who have suffered the loss of loved ones following the violence surrounding yesterday’s event. At a number of meetings of the Business Committee in recent weeks, Deputy Boyd Barrett was wanting to have this discussion and was predicting this to happen. How are we in such certainty? It is an anniversary, obviously,...

Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is not in south Dublin anyway. Has Sinn Féin a monopoly on everything? I did not interrupt anybody.

Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I was not saying anything to anyone. They have shot guns, planted bombs and thrown all kinds of cocktails at Israelis as they hid behind women and children. That is desperate. We want to save the women and children. We see it in conflicts throughout the world where the women and children are the targets and the victims of all kinds of genocide, crime, rape and everything else. In this...

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: On the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017, I want to ask what is going on over there. Has dysfunction also spread to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport? The Road Safety Authority has come under intense pressure from civil servants to make use of the public services card mandatory for all driving licence applications. They spent €2 million on the project before the...

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: They are only gimmicking and acting the you-know-what, or the Ned, as we call it in Tipperary. That is what they are doing, the three of them, but it is not funny. A sum of €2 million has just been thrown away and the proposal has now been scrapped. What is going on in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport? I know that the Minister is not here. He is never here to support...

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: What about head 5?

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: For the past two weeks, the Taoiseach has been asking people to stop making comments that might damage the integrity of the Irish health system. I share his view in that regard. However, two of the country's senior medical professionals are endlessly repeating dangerous and reckless comments and the Taoiseach will not stand up to them because they support his view in the upcoming...

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We are close to the top, according to the World Health Organization.

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: While the Taoiseach was Minister for Health.

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: In recent weeks, the world-class reputation of the Irish medical and maternal health care system has been subjected to a national campaign of dangerous and reckless misinformation. The situation has got so bad that no fewer than four former heads of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the current chair of the joint HSE working group on maternal mortality, Dr. Michael...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Health Policy (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has worked in collaboration with the United Kingdom Department of Health on the development of health or reproductive health policy over the past two years; and if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20806/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 337. To ask the Minister for Health the contacts he or his Department have had with a company (details supplied) in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20807/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Health Policy (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 338. To ask the Minister for Health the policy position with respect to the use of the term fatal foetal abnormality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20808/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 525. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address concerns that section 5 of the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 undermines privacy by allowing private bodies to use the public services card as a form of identification; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20796/18]