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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 have some questions.

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: Dr. Mahony said previously that abortion should be legalised on health grounds. For what specific conditions would she recommend that women undergo an abortion on health grounds? Has it been her experience in her clinical practice that she has delivered sup-optimal care to a patient or patients because she could not perform an abortion on health grounds?

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: Just one brief question.

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: In 2013, 15 obstetricians who had been practising in Ireland for many years under the eighth amendment wrote to the Oireachtas committee, of which I was a member, strongly disagreeing with Dr. Mahony's claims regarding fears of a prison sentence for intervening to save a mother's life. One went on to describe those claims as histrionic. At those Oireachtas committee hearings in 2013, in...

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 did not-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Third time lucky.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Gerry is back.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Stamp Duties (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Minister clarify that?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Stamp Duties (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Further to what Deputy Calleary said, I am also concerned about reliance on stamp duty slipping back in here again. We saw how it was very fruitful for a long time in the crazy times. When transactions ceased, very little came in from it. It is a very shaky foundation. The Minister gave an estimate of in excess of €370 million. I support Deputy Fitzmaurice's amendment because I am...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Stamp Duties (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I will, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Here is a cash-rich sacred cow that the Government refuses to touch. It could be done on the basis of acres above the limit. It would not stifle anyone buying commercial premises to develop for residential or commercial purposes. It would not create uncertainty. Auctioneers are concerned about it, as we all are. The Minister is not definite - no more...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Stamp Duties (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We are back to the old landlord days where people can amass up to 15,000 acres of land with no small farmer and no community. No football or hurling team will be fielded. No schools will be filled because they will be locked up and fenced as if it was in Nazi Germany; a snipe would not get through the fences. There are rich pickings there but the Government refused to touch it.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to speak on this resolution and I will support it. I realise it is difficult for people who need the fix of a cigarette and are addicted to smoking. I do not know how they manage given the current price of cigarettes. At some stage we will have to examine this because it will not continue to be an easy touch to get money from this area. Cigarettes will reach a price where people...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I too would like to speak on the budget, so I am disappointed that there is no senior Minister here. I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, who is a good worker. I will ask him a direct question. It relates to the fair deal scheme. Ms Maura Canning of the Irish Farmers Association, IFA, and others were promised by the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, that there would be...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: What about the widows?

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Good man.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Imports Data (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of timber being imported. [42982/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance the housing and commercial properties in the possession of NAMA in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42980/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 275. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the funding concerns of a society (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42917/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Status (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 399. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the construction of the national children's hospital, including changes to the overall cost estimates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42981/17]

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (5 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I would like to extend our sympathies to Liam Cosgrave's family and the Fine Gael Party on his passing at such a great age. Liam Cosgrave was a man of deepest political integrity. He talked about a true Republic of opportunity long before it became the catchphrase it is today. Under his leadership, Ireland entered the United Nations General...