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Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: This is a very serious issue and we should not be fighting over it. The Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, should be careful for what he wishes. Christmas has gone and the turkeys have come home to roost, but he never knows what is coming. The Higgins and Herity reports are HSE spin. I am not castigating the people who produced the reports but what is important are the questions they...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We are happy to give it to the Minister of State.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputy Mary Butler for tabling this matter, contacting all of us and organising it. I was glad to sign it. We do not know where we are. We need 24-7 cardiac and emergency care. The Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, agrees and is fighting very hard for it. I know how hard he has fought at Cabinet and with the Minister as well as during the talks on the programme for Government....

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is especially so with the difficulties the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, has had, which are known in the public domain, and the pressure he has been put under at Cabinet. I thank the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, for being here to support his colleague in the Independent Alliance. The Minister for Health's honeymoon is well over now. He got an...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It must be very important.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: So is the south east.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Serious questions have to be asked about the effectiveness of oversight concerning both the assistance and benefit schemes operated by the Department of Social Protection. I received a reply which stated that between 2011 and 2016, €420 million was recovered by the Department due to overpayments. It also stated that cases of social welfare fraud totalling €53 million were...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is not the question I put.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Some €53 million. It is a lot more than €20 million.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Stepaside is okay.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Scandalous.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is the same all over the country.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Stop.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am interested in what was said by Deputy Pat Casey about rapid build and modular housing. Mr. McCarthy gave the impression that these units were of high standard. I am sure we have all been approached - I have - by people who provide these modular homes and they look perfectly good to me. I do not know why there has been such a huge delay. This irritates me, given that we are all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: If I may intervene, Mr. McCarthy referred to a multidisciplinary team. My goodness, where have we had that? I shudder at the term.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: If they get the job done, we will all be fine and there will be no complaints.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The process takes forever. If they send something to the Department, it takes six months to get it back. It would take six months to send it again. It is pathetic. It is what they have told me.