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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (17 Apr 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 570. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if serving Garda personnel may assist with voter registration on third level campuses or institutes of technology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16306/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (17 Apr 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 879. To ask the Minister for Health if a costed plan has been made by his Department for the potential number of abortions that will take place here if the eighth amendment is repealed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15918/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (17 Apr 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 880. To ask the Minister for Health if public moneys will go towards private abortion clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15919/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (17 Apr 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1055. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will release the names of farmers involved in Coillte partnerships to an organisation (details supplied) to ensure that the farmers in question are satisfied with the partnership agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15316/18]

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak. I was here for the Minister's speech. I did not read it but I heard it. I do not know who wrote it. Honestly, hand on heart, the Minister should not have read it out. When is the Minister and the committee Chairman going to admit this is utterly bewildering and that there is utter failure? I refer to the figures that have been produced....

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: May I continue? I am not blaming Deputy Butler. She is the Chairman of the committee. I am saying it took forever to get the reply. I have been on to the Chairman several times.

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: No, several times. It just proves to me that there is no interest. There is a lethargic effort. The Government is supporting the banks and vulture funds. The Taoiseach was before the finance committee today and refused point blank to say the vulture funds would not get business or anything else. The Government is working for the banks or the big house down the road, 100 yards from the...

Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am not insisting but I want to address some of the other issues with which the Minister has become obsessed in recent times. Deputy Broughan referred to it.

Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The cyclist situation must be addressed in terms of the passing distance of 1.3 m.

Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is not covered by the Bill but is covered by the Minister. The demonisation of families in our country in terms of learner drivers also arises. We do not all have a Luas, a DART, buses or the smart technology to get where we like. We have to have respect for the road and to encourage young people. The driver licensing system is a shambles. A person has to do 12 lessons, which cost...

Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is all relevant. Deputy Broughan was given the liberty to speak about it so I am sure the Ceann Comhairle will give me the liberty too. I am trying to drive home to the Minister the folly of some of the things he is doing. Some of the data he is using are criminal. Deputy Broughan today referred to the inaccuracy and the falsehoods in the reporting of serious accidents and serious...

Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on this Bill. As the Explanatory Memorandum makes clear its purpose is to give effect to certain measures of the European Council, decisions generally referred to as the Prüm decisions, after the town in Germany where the basis for the decisions was originally agreed, and to provide for related matters. I have never been in Germany never mind in Prüm. Maybe...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government contains commitments to young people, especially our students. The cost of student accommodation in Dublin has got completely out of hand. At DCU’s Shanowen Hall, which is only minutes from the main campus, it is currently €7,000 for nine months. It is going up, however, by 24% to €9,000 a year. They will only be in it for nine months,...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He cannot even provide houses. He is hardly going to look after students.

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am delighted to speak on Second Stage of the Bill. I am a big supporter of foreign direct investment and IDA Ireland which has been out there since the very start. Mr. Padraic White was one of the first IDA Ireland men with whom I remember working. I commend the work IDA Ireland does in attracting business and especially jobs to Ireland, specifically County Tipperary. We are proud...

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal?

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am telling the Minister of State what the head of IDA Ireland told me. Dúirt bean liom go ndúirt bean léi. Dúirt fear é seo liom. He told me that himself and he is the head man out there, or so he told me, but perhaps he was telling me porkies. The Minister of State knows it too. It is all about Dublin.

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I stand corrected. I will write to the Minister of State who might answer me.

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I respect from where the Minister of State is coming.

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I missed the Minister of State's comment, but perhaps it is just as well. To get back to the substantive issue dealt with in the Bill and CPOs, I remember Schering-Plough. It was a long time ago. I was a buachaill óg in school in An Chathair. Schering-Plough was to locate in Cahir, but the next thing was there were objections and it never came. I do not know whether it located in...