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Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is fine. I know Deputy Bríd Smith has had a fit of laughter tonight but I do not know at what she is laughing. I said in the previous debate that we can hire a minibus for the Deputies to show them rural Ireland and what it is about.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am doing so. We will show them what rural Ireland is about and the difference made to a town and its society by a small factory brought there by foreign direct investment. It makes a difference to job creation and work experience for young students. There is also investment in the community, along with rates and tax paid by workers. It is not always about the "double Irish" or us being...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----and who I wish well-----

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----to continue this work. I ask the Minister of State to implement what she said she would do this evening. Words are cheap. I am not dismissing her genuine words but we need provision for this in the Estimates and in the budget, and we need action on this. She mentioned that such legislation would be difficult and complex. We need provision for this in legislation. I know it takes a...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Acting Chairman for his forbearance in changing time slots, etc. I am delighted to be able to bring this evening's important debate to a conclusion. I acknowledge the presence of our guests from the various farming organisations. We have received support from members of Nursing Homes Ireland, who are keenly aware of the vital importance of reforming the nursing home support...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We should have a rotating Leas-Ceann Comhairle.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No interest in rural people.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I ask the Minister to review the scheme.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not saying that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Our supervisor is doing a great job, but he is ringing social welfare offices and everybody else but cannot get them. There is a huge logjam. The spirit of what is supposed to be done by JobPath is fine, but it involves private companies. It is regressive. The forerunner of one of the companies had difficulties in England. My colleague, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, wanted to ask this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not saying that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not saying that. The Minister is being mischievous now.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 29. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the detrimental effect the Turas Nua scheme is having on participants, community employment schemes, Tús and other job placement schemes which have been the bedrock of communities over the years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26226/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I too wish the Minister well in his efforts and travails to become party leader. I hope he took the advice of the Taoiseach this morning. They were very wise words. As I understand it, once a person signs on with Turas Nua, he or she is prohibited from doing anything else for at least one year. This forces people to engage with Turas Nua or face a cut in their social welfare payments....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister was not always listening.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister has had his moments.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Of course.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I hope the Minister's engagement with schemes like mine and those of other Deputies will continue. He has said he will look at those aged over 55 years by the summer. I hope the new goodwill will still be shown, in whatever capacity the Minister is acting. There is a deeply frustrating inflexibility built into the system and we can only guess at whether it is by accident or design. If it...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Good man.

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I too wish the Taoiseach well. While we had many robust engagements, I thank him for his courtesy and co-operation. I know that he is an iar-mhúinteoir and fluent in both Latin and Irish, but I was intrigued by the comment on the young Turks who will follow him. I wonder to which of the said young Ministers he was really applying that terminology which, thank God, he did not repeat in...