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- 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-----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: -----Big Phil, the former Minister. We called him the enforcer. He left a mess behind. He is on his fat pension now in the EU and he comes back an odd time to the ploughing match and other events and tells us what he is doing for Ireland. It is a whole unmitigated mess. I opposed the setting up of Irish Water with might and main because there was no need for it in the first place. I...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is still here. Freedom of speech and bullying-----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, you can.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am dealing with free speech-----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: -----and freedom to work, and the right to work and the right to a fair day's pay for a day's work. I am just saying that people have to meet tonight in a yard of a hotel because two hotels have denied them entry because they are being bullied by members of a party that are here who took down 32 posters the other night.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The youth branch from Trinity College took down the posters and put it up on Facebook.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am not. You are the Acting Chairman. I believe in free speech.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I will.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: You are, so let me continue please.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, and I am talking about the right to exercise freedom of speech. We live in a democracy, thankfully.