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Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The recent death of Thomas Power was the direct result of the lack of a full-time cath lab. It was wholly preventable. It is the triumph of bureaucracy over honesty and freedom for patients. The Taoiseach has family connections in Dungarvan. I met them here last week and wish them well. I represent south Tipperary and it is where we are going to go if anything happens. If the cath lab...

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I agree with Deputy Howlin but I believe we must go ahead with the Minister for Justice and Equality's request that the matter be taken this evening, as we always have done in the past.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach is confused.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am well aware of it. I was with Fianna Fáil long enough. I know the way it operates.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I agree that we should have a debate this evening, if possible, and a vote on the matter. It might have suited Deputy Micheál Martin better to have discussed these matters before the formation of the Government, rather than talking about denying us and other Members speaking time. He seems to have become preoccupied with it and took his eye off the ball. However, he is not in a...

Appointment of Members of Government and Ministers of State (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: He is not in the post office anyway.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Action Plan for Rural Development (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 66. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the implementation of the action plan for rural development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27547/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners were notified of a feed price increase by a processor in the poultry sector prior to that processor proceeding with the increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26836/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary can be provided with extra special needs hours to meet the needs of their students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26615/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Accommodation (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 716. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the development of a new Garda barracks in Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26724/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1195. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the benchmarked post tender construction costs of the new children's hospital against comparable construction costs for major acute hospitals internationally; the name of the major acute hospitals that were used for the purposes of such comparisons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27245/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1196. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the business case made with respect to the new national children's hospital project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27246/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Reviews (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1445. To ask the Minister for Health the number of terminations per year carried out under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28489/17]

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Members are not allowed to talk-----

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We all know who it was.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: And I gave the Minister a hand with it.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: And he delivered.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: And the one that we lost. I, too, congratulate and wish the new Taoiseach, his Ministers and everyone else the best. I thank the Taoiseach for being helpful in his previous role as Minister for Social Protection on the many issues we had raised. The Tánaiste was also helpful. I hope she has placed work on Clonmel Garda station in the safe hands of the new Minister for Justice and...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am shocked that he will now be the Minister with responsibility for rural development. If that is what he did to oifig an phoist, what will do to small farmers? What will he do to Tús workers? What will he do to the farm grant schemes? God help us all. I am very disappointed by the poor judgment shown. I know that he came out and said he would vote for the new Taoiseach to...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad that the Minister is still in the Cabinet and the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, likewise as she will look after the issues that the Government-----