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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: And I welcome them.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Déanfaidh mé mo dhícheall but I am just saying I am not dissociating myself from anything I said. This is what is happening and what is going on in front of our eyes. Yes, the extension to the medical card is very welcome, as are the changes to the 1995 Act's provisions, but we will have questions and no answers and around the house and mind the dresser. All these things are...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The CMO.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Chief Medical Officer.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Níl aon Healy-Rae anseo so tógfaidh mé an t-am go léir, or I will do my best to anyway. Tá siad i gContae Chiarraí. I am delighted to speak on this Bill. The rent a room scheme, which the Bill tries to enable or help, is a very imaginative scheme. It has been a success but there are unintended consequences to every scheme and provision we make. The scheme...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to raise the urgent need for reform of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, CAMHS. Serious concerns about CAMHS have been repeatedly raised here by me and many other Deputies over the last number of years. A review of CAMHS was conducted by the Mental Health Commission and the Maskey report on CAMHS in Kerry was published recently but we have seen no action to improve the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste is afraid to answer my question. If they are trying to rename Páirc Uí Chaoimh, they should call it Páirc Micheál Martin because he is so good at kicking the ball around and off the pitch, but will not play the ball on the pitch and deal with the questions he is asked. The Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, made an assessment that the Irish...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Good job you were not in goal.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Scoring own goals.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: What about a Minister?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I bring to the attention of the Tánaiste a potential Government cover-up regarding the upcoming referendums. On Monday, 12 February, the former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Senator Michael McDowell, accused the Minister, Deputy Roderic O'Gorman, of hiding vital information regarding the upcoming referendums in March. Senator McDowell's allegations suggest a significant...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We have a route option selection process going on for the new N24. I am talking specifically about the Cahir to Waterford stretch, or Cahir to Carrick-on-Suir in our case in Tipperary. Clonmel has a bypass for 20-odd years and it is like a car park morning and evening. It is proposed now to use that same bypass to link up with the new road. This is totally impractical. Clonmel town needs...

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Deputies of all parties who have supported this motion. I wish to express my sympathies to Deputy Michael Collins on his tragic loss and to his brother Danny and the mother of the young man. I thank Tríona and Brian Ó Domhnaill in our office for putting this motion together. I am disappointed because, as usual, the Government has put forward a countermotion....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (21 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on a foreign birth register application (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8240/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (21 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of septic tanks inspected, by county, since the inspection scheme was introduced in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8149/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (21 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application for Irish citizenship (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8239/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (21 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of patients seen in the Cashel minor injury unit each year for the past three years; the number of staff available at the unit; the reason the public is never recommended to use Cashel minor injury unit when local hospitals are experiencing overcrowding; the efforts taken to advertise and increase the use of this unit; and if he will make a...

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, support this motion. It is a terribly sad situation. I issue a fíorfháilte do na daoine óga is aosta sa Ghailearaí freisin. I welcome the people to the Gallery. They should not have to come here but, unfortunately, in this country, especially with health, while so many good things happen, which we acknowledge, in this area of scoliosis and, indeed, urology, it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Last year, the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, announced a postponement of development fees and water connection charges in an effort to encourage people to build amid spiralling construction costs. Huge delays are being experienced by individual self-builders and, indeed, bigger builder waiting for connection from Uisce Éireann. There is a fear now among these people that the delays will...