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Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Earlier, the Minister said more hospitals and capacity needed to be built. The Minister has the visited Cashel hospital, where €22.5 million was spent, after which it closed. The Minister has visited it. There was an overrun of €7 million and I have referred the matter to the Committee on Public Accounts. Will the Minister insist that step-down patients be allowed into the...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Step-down beds.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to be able to speak on this matter. I compliment those who produced it but I did not need the "RTE Investigates" programme - none of us did - to know what is going on. The Minister has been in the job for long enough now to know what is going on. We have just celebrated the centenary of the 1916 Rising in 2016 and all that has happened in Ireland but what do we have? We...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----right, cleanly and honestly-----

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----and with integrity. Now they have been captured by senior officials who promote themselves. Then, when they retire, they go off setting up agencies to supply services by the agency-----

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----weeks after they retire.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Scandalous.

Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to be able to speak to the Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016, the publication of which is timely. I thank the Minister for meeting the Save Our Community group in Tipperary on two occasions. One meeting took place before the general election and in fairness to the Minister when we asked her to meet it again, she kept her commitment and did so. It is a wonderful group and I salute its...

Courts (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on the Bill. Deputy Broughan has been pursuing it like a dog with a bone for years and I commend him on his efforts. There are many inadequacies in the system and that should not be the case. While the Bill is trying to deal with them, we must consider other areas. The Minister is examining enforcement and the wording of summonses. We...

Media Ownership Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Concerns around media ownership have been doing the rounds since 1999. At the time the report of the Council of Ministers adopted recommendations on measures to promote media plurality. Radio stations such as Tipp FM and Tipp Mid West Radio are my local stations. Deputy Eugene Murphy, who has just left the Chamber, was a voice of local radio for many years. I compliment his party - I...

Media Ownership Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No, I never did any broadcasting but I try to get my message out to the media. I do other types of casting but not broadcasting. The recommendation presented measures which member states could take in six areas. These included: ownership; regulation of new communications; technologies and services for digital broadcasting; content; editorial responsibility; and public service broadcasting...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I refer to the health information and patient safety Bill. Three weeks ago I made representations to University Hospital Waterford on behalf of a constituent wishing to see a urologist. I was told at that time the waiting time for a consultant was 48 months. Today, less than three weeks later, I have been told the waiting time for the same consultant is now 51 months and growing. That...

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I would like Deputy Coppinger to correct the record because we had a motion last week on roads and she had no interest in speaking on it. She told me that here in the Chamber.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We should come in here tomorrow at 7.30 a.m. Many patients have been waiting four years and will get up at 9 o'clock tonight in order to travel and be in hospital tomorrow at 5 a.m. That is what we are talking about and I suggest that we come in at 7.30 a.m. at the latest because the patients have been waiting for four and a half years. They would come in gladly.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Can we not make it an hour?

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: And counting.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thought the Deputy's party was happy with-----

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Daylight Savings (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 91. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider ending the daylight savings and biannual changing of the clock; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6133/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made to ensure the establishment of special ASD classes in mainstream schools in towns throughout the country in which there are insufficient class spaces available; if the circular governing the establishment of special classes which gives mainstream schools the authority to refuse to set up special classes will be amended...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 217. To ask the Minister for Health the transport service that is available to those persons that require transport from their homes to their hospital appointments when public transport is not available or not suitable; the option available to them when they cannot get their GP to refer them to the transfer services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6259/17]