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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Of course I know that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Rubbish.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 35. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the schemes administered by his Department over the past two years that have been affected by payment delays; the length of these delays; the number of persons affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41417/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have been writing parliamentary questions and contacting the Department on behalf of farmers in Tipperary. There are many schemes in the Department but what is going on there? We are sick and tired of excuses. I am not here to bash the staff in the Department but I am here to stand up for the farmers in Tipperary who are rightly entitled to get their payments but are not getting them.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We know all that money is paid and it is all very welcome but it is of little use or benefit to farmers who are struggling, who cannot get their payments or who are waiting. These people are contacting my office, as well as many other Deputies, and we are going back and forth to the Minister. The Department is blaming computer glitches and wrong information being inputted. That is...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is no laughing matter.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is what I said.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach is passing the buck.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Taoiseach for coming.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach made a mistake about the Killarney bypass. I hope he will brief himself on the agricultural situation because the programme for Government makes explicit commitments to supporting agriculture. This is a hardy annual: every year the slurry spreading deadline, 15 October, comes up. With so much bad weather this year, as in many other years, farmers cannot possibly empty their...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that has been made in implementing the recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach report on the rising costs of car insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41522/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the detail of his Department's engagement with a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41480/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Products Regulatory Authority (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 431. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of counterfeit medication that has been confiscated annually since 2011; the types of counterfeit medication involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41850/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 432. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the introduction of legislation dealing with assisted human reproduction; the areas which will be covered under such legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41851/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not against meters. I have just said that I am against the waste that means water is not used. I am not against meters. I have had a meter for 30 years. I have fitted many meters. I am saying that meters should be readily available to people so that they can see how much water they are using, just as they can do in the case of electricity. There could be a pay as you go system. I...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Chair took 60 seconds off me.

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Déanfaidh mé mo dhícheall. The Acting Chairman might give me a bit of extra time. We need the right to protest and the right to free speech. We need to hear all sides. In this debate, we could not hear from all sides. We never heard anything from the private well owners who have to pick up the tab. We are told now that the Bill makes provision for an ombudsman through...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is amazing to see Deputy McGuinness backing him up but I know he does so in jest. Returning to my figures, that is an astonishing gap of almost €50 million which has still not been explained by any Minister. It has been taken out of the supports for the rural water schemes, the private well owners and private sewerage schemes. In Tipperary alone during the same period of 2011 to...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am also delighted to be able to speak on this legislation. I always described Deputy O'Dowd, who is in the Chamber, as the saner and more tame implementer of Irish Water under the towering figure of-----