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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]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Data (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the aid funding his Department has provided to countries and territories (details supplied) since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2328/18]

Topical Issue Debate: GLAS Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Department is incompetent.

Topical Issue Debate: GLAS Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: What about the farmers?

Topical Issue Debate: GLAS Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The IFA might help the Minister of State out.

Topical Issue Debate: GLAS Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State might give more answers than he would. The Minister of State knows more about it.

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I will raise a similar matter regarding PESCO. We debated it before the Christmas break. Assurances were given by the Tánaiste, the Minister of State and others. Will the Minister of State ensure that those commitments will be lived up to so that our personnel who are serving on UN missions will not be asked to do anything that would infringe upon the highly respected role that we...

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I wish the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, the Minister of State and everyone in the House a happy new year. As there was no time to do so on the Order of Business, I did not sympathise on the sad passing of Dolores O'Riordan, the famous singer. She was an excellent ambassador for Ireland throughout the EU and, indeed, all over the world. She is a huge loss, not only to her own young children, her...

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Rural Independent Group has seven Members. I do not get the Deputy's point.

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Scandalous.

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Will we get an answer to the question?