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Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The question concerns how the hospital was designed to be 10 cm lower in height than 30 m to circumvent sprinkler requirements to avoid having to install a sprinkler system for fires. This is not a claim made by me. I am reporting a claim made by Dublin Fire Brigade. The developers, the board of the national children's hospital and Dublin Fire Brigade spent 12 months discussing this. We...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is not circumventing. It is a national issue. Our children-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Building this hospital is in the programme for Government. The cost has gone from €400 million up to €1.25 billion and now they are keeping below the required height just to avoid putting in safety measures to prevent fire.

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: He was in government for five years.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Expenditure (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amounts paid by his Department in grants and supports for those operating private or group water schemes in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45097/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns regarding aspects of the national framework plan that are creating uncertainty for local authority funding streams particularly in rural areas. [45540/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Property (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to address the level of commercial property vacancies in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43365/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the regulations regarding slurry spreading to introduce greater flexibility as to when this practice is permitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41849/17]

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Unfortunately, we have all listened to such stories, as have the Ministers. If they had any heart, they would have dealt with this long ago. The Minister announced today what he is going to do and not do. I hope he had a nice time with the bankers and with all the sweet cake he had in the last couple of days. I said yesterday that bank robbers at one time used to come in with guns to rob...

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Meanwhile, they are not giving a bob to anyone.

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am almost finished. Shame on them. The Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, has known this since 2008 and 2009. He was told it by Jerry Beades, but no, he is a pariah, do not talk to him-----

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They did not want to be seen walking around with him. I want to praise Deputy McGuinness for the work he is doing in the finance committee. Somebody has to expose them and bring this out. This trickery and robbery should have been gone with the Black and Tans.

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Administration (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is cheap labour.

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Administration (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, compliment Deputy Breathnach on being involved in the mid-Louth Leader programme as well as our Leas-Cheann Comhairle, Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher, who is also involved. Any one of us who is worth our salt in the community have been impressed by the CE schemes. However, it is a poor relation and is considered cheap labour for the Government. These supervisors need to be...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Administration (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving us the opportunity to discuss this matter and I thank Deputy Calleary for organising the debate. I have been involved with a CE scheme since 1988. I recall meeting Mr. Ruairí Quinn, the then Minister for Labour in 1990. There are huge issues with these schemes and I have called for decades for an audit to be done as to their value. As Deputies...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is pass the Paschal.

European Council: Statements (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak about this interesting meeting. I note from the report by President Donald Tusk to the European Parliament following the meeting that he is “obsessed by unity". This is interesting. He must be having a very anxious time of it when we recall the recent outcome of the Austrian election. Austria now has a very young president who swept to power on a mandate of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Professor O'Keane made an extraordinary statement in her opening remarks, to my mind in any event, when she said, "I would go further and say that the mental health of everybody in Ireland is being damaged by the eighth amendment". Is this a medical opinion or has the professor carried out research, backing up this conjecture, that has assessed the mental health of every person in Ireland?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Professor O'Keane for that. Her statement was very sweeping and I was alarmed by it. I thank the professor for clarifying that it is her own opinion. Would she outlaw gendercide where a woman may seek to abort her baby simply because the baby she is carrying is a girl?