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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is standard practice.

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Smoked salmon.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding changes to the slurry spreading closed season deadline; if there is now provision for increased flexibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44096/17]

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Of course Galway is awake. They won the all-Ireland. They are alive and awake and are not going to accept this any more because it has gone on for far too long. All governments have paid lip service, but the permanent government are here, with their hands on the handlebars, and it would take a jackhammer to get them off. They do not want to give anything to rural Ireland. Let the...

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: When are the jobs coming to rural Ireland? I spoke to people from the IDA in Washington in America last St. Patrick's Day. I was told that they were not even coming as far as Kildare, Naas, or Meath. I will check the stats.

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: One can have all the stats and all the reports. The national planning framework is a bad business. I do not accept the national planning framework people. Who are they? It is all jobs for the boys - retired county managers and retired senior officials. There are very few ordinary people, like shopkeepers or small business people from Tipperary, Kerry, Cork or any other place. No, they...

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Show us the money. Tabhair dúinn an airgead.

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There are not many of the Minister of State's colleagues here anyway.

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an chéad dul síos, déanaim comhbhrón le clanna na daoine a fuair bás inné. They were Ms Clare O'Neill, whose home was not too far away from me in Aglish, Contae Port Láirge, Mr. Fintan Goss in County Louth and Mr. Michael Pyke. I know the Pyke family and express my sympathy to all the families. The Pyke family is hard-working and decent, and Michael's...

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is wishful thinking.

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I said it last week on "Prime Time" on RTÉ, which was pitting Dundrum in Tipperary - a fine rural village - against Dundrum in Dublin with respect to property tax. 10 o’clock It was said that we should table motions to keep the property tax that is paid in Tipperary in Tipperary and keep the equalisation fund. The statistics demonstrate that over 50% of Ireland's GDP, which...

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There is nothing wrong with that.

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Close enough.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of referrals made to Tusla across all abuse categories in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the procedures that are followed following a referral to Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43445/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Referendum Data (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the costs of all referenda held since 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43579/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development Initiatives (12 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the work of the IDA and all other agencies under the aegis of her Department in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42755/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 30. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the decision end the contract of a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42756/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Property (12 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being taken by his Department to address the disturbing levels of commercial property vacancies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42757/17]

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It was interesting to see Deputy Connolly contributing just a minute ago and now she is in the Chair. That is what is called double-jobbing, capable work or capable use of time. Déanaim comhghairdeas léi ar a hobair. I am glad to be able to speak on the budget again today. I welcome some aspects of the budget that are positive. However, as I said last night, the Minister is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues Arising from the Citizens' Assembly Recommendations: Masters of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street and the Rotunda Hospital (11 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the two delegates. Professor Malone told the Irish Examinerthat in the majority of cases in the Rotunda Hospital where babies had been diagnosed with anencephaly or trisomy 18, parents travelled to Britain for an abortion. That is in sharp contrast to the findings of research from Cork University Maternity Hospital where more than 90% of parents who had received a diagnosis of...