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Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Pass the parcel, is it?

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, is the man who keeps charge of all public expenditure.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Bill has its origins in the Seanad and been introduced by my colleague, Deputy Alan Kelly. It allows for self-employed persons to engage in collective pay bargaining with employers. I note, however, that the Labour Party spokesman in the Seanad, Senator Gerald Nash, said the Bill would apply to persons such as actors engaged in voice-over work, session musicians and freelance...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not know what kind of a bell or dong I can wave after that. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett is used to rattling the big bell that he has and throwing the toys out of the pram but he is entitled to his views. More power to him.

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No problem. Beidh lá eile againn. We can continue the debate elsewhere. We had many a good debate over five years when we were in the Technical Group together. It is very important that all views be heard. It is very timely that we have this debate on the Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016. The Finance Act 2015 introduced a knowledge development...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No business, small or big, can operate without a good working relationship with staff. I spoke about the Workplace Relations Bill last week and I believe the Minister and Government have to wake up and get involved in stopping big business from crushing workers and not supporting them. I acknowledge the charity boxes Tesco has in their stores and I also acknowledge the wonderful walk...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Some 1,500 employees at 16 Tesco stores are already on strike and a further 500 based in six more stores were due to join the industrial action from Monday. The core issue here is the unilateral decision of the company to rewrite or totally undermine the validity of existing contracts. Contracts, such as those under dispute, may need to be modernised but the key question is why this...

Order of Business (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The arrangements for the business schedule for Tuesday to Thursday, 28 February to 2 March 2017, as agreed by the Business Committee on 23 February, are as follows. Today's business shall be No. 7, motion re extended take back date for report of services by the Defence Forces with the United Nations, without debate; No. 8, motion re reasoned opinion, without debate; No. 9, motion re capital...

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hedge-cutting.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 814. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied that the present CEO of Tusla is the most suitable candidate (details supplied) to lead the reform of the agency; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that as the head of child protection in Dundee, Scotland, this person was severely criticised by the UK Government inspectors which after examining 18 key...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There is nothing moving. The Minister will be moving pretty hastily in a couple of months' time looking for votes from the council members. I have the figures. For years houses were built in their hundreds, or 150, in Tipperary. I have the statistics here. Nothing has been built in the past couple of years.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Please do. I cannot see them. I have asked the Minister to call in the county manager to explain what is going on. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, offered the Department houses. The council gave me the range of reasons it had to reject properties offered by NAMA, through the Government housing agency and its mediator. When I put the question to NAMA it insisted that it was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Why?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They have not been delivered. The council says it does not have the money. The Minister is advancing money all the time. How many new schemes has the Department approved since June of last year? The figures show that only three were built in the first three quarters of the year and none in the final quarter. There are several blockages and too much of a delay. People only want a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is houses we want. A person cannot live in a statistic.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The county council is saying it.