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Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Stop the clocks. I succeed in a lot of things, but anyway.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Maybe the Minister is doing it. I will continue. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Bhí mé ag féachaint ar an gclog so gabhaim buíochas léi. I was speaking of the whole issue of traffic calming and cycle lanes. I have it in Tipperary now. It has become ridiculous. We had a lovely road going from Cashel to Cathair Dúin Iascaigh. My goodness, €1.5...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I am just saying the RSA should be involved in these issues as well. A holistic approach is needed, not big, crude plans. Concrete aprons and high kerbs are being put in. If people hit them, they are in fierce trouble. They are crude. There is talk about aesthetics. Masses of concrete laid out as a ready-mix with a machine is no more aesthetically sensible or pleasing than anything....

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I will finish. Mar fhocal scoir, I am thankful we are an agricultural country, unless the Deputies in the Green Party want to quench the farming and we will all be reading I do not know what.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Matthews agus an Teachta Ó Cathasaigh. I know how hard they and other committee members worked on Committee Stage of this Bill. I tried to assist a few different times, voting as a substitute and so on. They did a lot of hard work. It is very long legislation and, as the Minister will know, this stage in the Dáil is being quite rushed. ...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Hold your whisht.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: They all have.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I know there is a problem in Dublin with the canals and the tents and everything else. The people of Ireland and the people of Tipperary are very welcoming to Ukrainian refugees but now we have a situation whereby they are being moved out of places such as Rathcabbin and Borrisokane, which was a model for everyone to look at. There is Dundrum House Hotel, what happened in Roscrea and the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I too oppose this proposal, as I did at the meeting of the Business Committee last Thursday week. This is very substantial legislation that will have significant ramifications from all angles. Months were spent on the Bill on Committee Stage, where there were hours and hours of debate. A great many amendments, including amendments from the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Not agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 304.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position with respect to an application from a school (details supplied) in County Cork for reconfiguration works to existing school accommodation for SEN purposes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25053/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 371.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the duties listed as part of the general service supervisors agreement under the Better Local Government Agreement of 1996; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24683/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 596.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the position in relation to a building in County Waterford (details supplied) and its use by his Department; if there are plans to install modular-style accommodation on the grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24592/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 597.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the position with regard to the construction works at a location (details supplied); to confirm the reason construction works have paused on this site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24593/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 604.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the position in relation to a property in south Tipperary (details supplied) which has been used for housing Ukrainians; if his Department now plans to house IPAS applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24651/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 693.To ask the Minister for Health the future plans for the health centre at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24685/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the dire situation in a school (details supplied) in relation to a shortage of classrooms; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that within the building there is adequate space for the additional classrooms needed but the school has been denied access to these rooms by her Department; if she will acknowledge that her...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: -----that people can do this and take the law into their own hands.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We all want to respect the hedgerows and biodiversity but ladies and gentlemen are going around in cars and vans taking on the role of officers of some State body or something. They are part of an NGO which is intimidating ordinary workers driving machines, cutting hedges for health and safety reasons by order of the county council and sometimes for farmers to stop cattle from going over the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You are hiding from the debate.