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Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...an Act to provide for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to lay before each House of the Oireachtas an annual report on the progress of the document entitled “Project Ireland 2040” that was published by the Government on 18 January 2019, of which the constituent components are the National Planning Framework and the National Development Plan, and for that...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...gable end. The whole thing has gone crazy. We are all wearing masks since the pandemic, but the Department officials and the regulations are masked and cannot see, notice or understand rural Ireland. Deputy O'Donoghue just said so. This is crazy stuff. In the Cahir area plan - Cathair Dún Iascaigh, a lovely town on the River Suir - the councillors were forced to reduce the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (19 Oct 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...expected timeline for completion of the inner relief road Thurles, County Tipperary linking Slievenamon Road to the Mill Road; if funding is in place for same; if a route been finalised; and if all land required has been secured. [50386/21]

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...Bill for next year, or for the nine years. This trick o' the loop job is a three-card trick. We all agree that climate mitigation is necessary. However, we are being destroyed in rural Ireland. It is pure folly. Many speakers earlier who spoke about what I have been speaking about, which is the pollution that is being caused out by county councils up and down the country. We have...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...of his Ministers - signed it only to reverse his decision. He would do anything to grovel to the Green Party. The Green Party is butchering this. How can we have a situation where the courts of the land can clear people of a charge or of anything and the penalty points will still remain? Has the Government learned nothing from the closure and loss of our sugar industry? I am not a...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: .... We definitely need to utilise wind. God knows, we have enough area of sea around the country and I have the research figures here, which I do not have time to go into. It is massive, as we know. We are a small island country but we are losing our destiny as a sovereign nation. We have lost it; we have sold it. Who owns these big conglomerates that are going to come in and...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am unable to support this amendment. I have no ideological hang-ups about developers, builders or whatever. Probably against my better judgment and despite serious concerns, I voted for the Land Development Agency Bill. I am willing to try anything to solve the housing problem. Many years ago, when the vulture funds first arrived, the former Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, whom I...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...a modicum of services and they cannot get them. This is affecting urban as well as rural areas, but mostly rural. What is going on here is a shame. It is all about control, control, control to get rid of people off the land altogether.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...responsible and he promised us more houses. I told him then that he would not build a henhouse from Toomevara to Carrick-on-Suir, and he did not. We must get real here. I am not in favour of the Land Development Agency because we have had a bad experience with these big agencies. We previously had the National Roads Authority, NRA, for instance, which is now Transport Infrastructure...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...residents in the Mountain View Drive and Mountain Road area made submissions on that plan. It was decided to dezone 50 ha out of the 60 ha that were to be zoned, leaving only 10 ha. I was involved with many landowners there who have wanted to develop community-type voluntary housing and everything else for the past 15 years. They could not do so because of the poor standard of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: .... Last night, the Government was told by NPHET and today it says: "Yes, we will do it. How high do you want us to jump?". The Taoiseach went off on a Zoom call or something else. He is in Zoom-land anyway. Those in government will all be zoomed off. They are all zoned out because they are not listening to the people. Now, hey presto, the Government is going to engage in a social...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: .... How are we going to build back better or take off like a rocket? I hope the Tánaiste is not too fatigued after his Ard Fheis on top of building 40,000 houses. I would say he is on cloud-cuckoo-land. These centres must be opened. I met with the Road Safety Authority, RSA. It met me when the Tánaiste would not meet me. I thank it for that but it most open these centres and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (24 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...in 2018, 2,022 new builds; in 2019, 2,271 new builds; in 2020, only 2,300 new builds; in 2021 so far, there have been 1,995. The Tánaiste at the Ard-Fheis last weekend must have been in cloud cuckoo land to think he could pluck 40,000 a year out of the sky. This has not been happening. Fine Gael has been in government for ten years and nothing is happening. It was supported by...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...who bought a bailer. He got it into the country from Germany no problem. However, when he needed a mechanical part for it to allow him to continue his work in the hay season, it took six weeks to get it from England. The blackguarding of people that is going on is crazy. Regarding housing, the cost of building has gone through the roof. Deputy O'Donoghue told me last night that to...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...a hard-working Deputy but the people of Cork South-West have recognised his hard work and put him back here. The navy has been and is often quick to impound or board our own vessels in Ireland. If there is any sign of a misdemeanour, the navy will board a vessel, impound it and bring it back to port and the skippers of same will face consequences. We have a ridiculous legislative...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 535. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 996 of 11 May, if the single farm payment is attached to the land in cases in which force majeure does not apply (details supplied). [29434/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 997 of 11 May, the reason payment entitlements under the single payments scheme were not attached to specific land in cases in which the land in question is specific (details supplied). [29435/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 997 of 11 May, the reason payment entitlements under the single payments scheme were not attached to specific land in cases in which the land in question is specific (details supplied). [29436/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the single farm payment belongs on the land of the lessor in circumstances (details supplied); and if he can interfere with a lease contract freely entered into and decide that the value of the single payment data is the property of the lessee in spite of the contract. [29437/21]

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...to declare null and void a statutory instrument. The Minister has said this before. He accuses us of misstatement. He said this before and he was corrected. He is in some kind of a cloud cuckoo land. It happened on the floor. We lost the vote but we did table it. The Taoiseach begged us not to table it but we did so.