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- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Rural proofing.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Three.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We were elected as individual Members and we spent 60 days trying to form a government.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Every Minister has a duty to visit the people.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is a responsibility and a duty to look after all the people of Ireland.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I did not laugh at Deputy Jonathan O'Brien.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy's mother is from Tipperary and he is laughing at Tipperary.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Can I have the protection of the Chair?
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I give credit where credit is due, and always would but these issues are sadly lacking and the Road Safety Authority is not doing what it should be doing, nor are many other quangos. If they were, the insurance cartels would be broken. We have regulators for insurance too. What is going on with young people is an abomination. They are being destroyed and their fathers and mothers are...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Fine. I give credit where credit is due, to any party, including Deputy Ó Broin on the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, and others on different issues. I ask the Minister to address the matter of drug-driving tests. On the issue of drug-driving, I got a text message from a member of An Garda Síochána based in a station in a big town in rural Ireland...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak on the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017. Any fatality on the roads is one too many. I send my profound sympathies to those families who have lost loved ones. I say that from the bottom of my heart. I have met families whose family members were either killed or injured on the roads due to drink driving. Members raise issues here which are of significant concern to...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Road Safety Authority does much good work but it is all too powerful and has too much of a say. I had an issue with the regulations around the laden weight of a three-axle vehicle which the Minister addressed with the stroke of a pen. Countless Ministers have refused to sign this statutory instrument for 13 years. The current Minister signed it - perhaps not knowing about the...
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Section 39 Agency Staff Reimbursements: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I too compliment Deputy Calleary for putting down the motion. The nice flowery language from the Ministers of State, Deputies Finian McGrath and Jim Daly, will not help the people in the Gallery and those who protested outside. In my book, fair play is fine play. Everyone had to take the cuts, except the preserved few, including senior civil servants. They were also exonerated from having...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: An issue we talk about all the time and about which the Taoiseach said he was shocked is the trolley crisis and delays in emergency departments. We have been trying to extend the community hospital in Clogheen in Tipperary for six or seven years. It is a fabulous facility and excellent care is provided there. A number of local organisations, Friends of St. Theresa's and Boston Scientific,...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am tired of asking about this.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level and amount of exceptional needs payments that have been made in County Tipperary over the past four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1988/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (17 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that sufficient support exists for the development and growth of community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1987/18]