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Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Smith should have come out and voted.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Deputies have to call a vote.

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. We are all equal in our group.

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The quarterly report speaks of increasing housing supply and 23 major urban housing development sites with capacity to deliver 30,000 new homes in the medium term in the greater Dublin area, Cork, Limerick and Galway being identified by the Department, in close collaboration with local authorities, in terms of the Department's new housing delivery objectives. Ar an gcéad dul...

Rugby World Cup 2023 Bill 2017: Second Stage (5 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: All politics is local and important. I also am delighted to speak on this issue. I am delighted to see the Minister sitting back so relaxed, to have all the House ar gach taobh, all sides, supporting him - not like the pillorying he is getting from my colleague beside me and others regarding the Judiciary - including myself regarding his efforts that we would have a small bit of pleasure in...

Early Childhood Care and Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion and take the opportunity to offer my sympathy to the Minister on her recent sad loss. Yesterday I received an email about this issue, in which I was informed that Ireland spent only 0.5% of GDP on early childhood education and child care, which is well below the EU average of 0.8% and the 2% of GDP invested by the Nordic countries in this area....

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government indicates that many youth organisations, including Foróige, around the country will be supported. They do valuable work to help young people. They are waiting for an announcement on the dormant account funds for 2017 to 2019.

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government says that it will support young people. We are dealing with vulnerable people. Foróige, a national organisation, does huge work there. We are waiting for this announcement on dormant funds for 2017 to 2019. We are seven months into the year now and perhaps the Minister, Deputy Michael Ring, has gone off to try to find the post offices or such - I do not...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Has the Deputy any dirty socks in there?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Pay by weight.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Where?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: My questions are very similar to those of Deputy Ó Broin and Senator Grace O'Sullivan. The delay is inexplicable and it seems to be the same across the board. As with everything in this little system of ours, it is just a matter of pushing paper backwards and forwards. I have been presented with more options from different groups and different organisations, and credit unions are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (5 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will receive a NEPS educational assessment; the reason for the delay in receiving an assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31645/17]

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Nor do we.

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: In February 2016, I called on the then Minister with responsibility for the environment, Deputy Alan Kelly, who never showed his face in the Chamber tonight, to immediately suspend the introduction of increases in the cost of recycling household waste after he signalled at the time that he was set to approve a move that would have seen an additional per-kilo cost, which would have been passed...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There are firm commitments in the programme for Government to increase job creation and the protection of workers' rights. I draw the Taoiseach's attention to an urgent and serious employment issue in Clonmel, County Tipperary, that is developing in a company called SNC-Lavalin. It is a multinational based in Montreal which has 50 office staff employed in Clonmel. When SNC-Lavalin took...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Not a hope.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have on that issue. In fairness to the secretariat of the Business Committee, they rang around the Whips. For our part, we agreed to it and I assume they did the same with the other Whips.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Do we not have that already?