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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.

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: It takes six months to get an answer.

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: May I comment briefly on that?

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: It will be a short comment.

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: This is a problem. The witness and I are public servants, as are the councillors, so somebody is kidding somebody else. It should not happen that six years after the fact people do not know what problem existed. It is a shameful admission.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Reductions (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason radon barriers are taxable at the higher rate of VAT and treated as a luxury item when it is an essential item for the health and safety of persons; the efforts that will be made to reduce this VAT rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2030/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made to ensure that children that are currently attending an ASD unit at preschool level will have their needs met in their communities at primary school level; his plans to develop ASD units at primary level in Clonmel, County Tipperary; his further plans to develop an ASD unit at second level which is accessible for girls...

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I did not name any individual. I mentioned an office.

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is going on. It is a fact. They will not touch it. They are announcing this money, that money and the other money - regurgitating funds. Nothing is happening. The councils have failed to build the houses, claiming they do not have the money. The Minister is saying they have. It is simple; the Minister should call them in. I ask him to call in our own county manager in Tipperary,...

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I support certain aspects of the Bill. I do not agree with some aspects of it. The Bill proposes to provide for greater security of tenure by making all tenancies over two months Part 4 tenancies. I am not going to talk that much about the Bill. Before Christmas, the Minister spoke about rent certainty. Deputies Catherine Connolly and Danny Healy-Rae spoke about it. One could count on...

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not.

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is the problem. The Bill is trying to keep people in their homes and stop evictions. This county registrar is granting repossession orders like snuff at a wake or confetti at a wedding. They were doing so badly in Tipperary when she went to Wicklow that they had to bring her back because they were not getting enough repossessions. That is the policy of the Government and the previous...