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Written Answers — Department of Health: International Agreements (20 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 538. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government, given the implications of the adoption and ratification of the proposed WHO Pandemic Treaty and proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations, will enable a recourse to the people (details supplied) and thereby enable a constitutional referendum to be held to ascertain the views of the people, who are guardians of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The home help system is chaotic. There are huge anomalies in it. The changes that are in it now are very disturbing. A couple of years ago, we were all here looking for extra home helps and extra hours and we could not get them, but now the system has changed it is a bit of a trick of the loop. One is being allocated the extra hours but one cannot get the home help people. The ones who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: €2.4 billion.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: This has been going on for decades.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Septic Tanks (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Therein lies the problem. The Department increased the grant from €5,000 to a maximum of €12,000 and they do not have to be registered but getting a grant is the issue. I had a lady last week on to my office. She was in a bad way with her septic tank, rang the county council and was told she was not in the right geographical area. That is ridiculous. I question the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Septic Tanks (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I do not accept the figures. Because they came from the EPA, they are gospel, but that agency produced a report recently about areas with no pollution and gave the whole county of Tipperary a clean bill of health, when there are 30 plants - I visited one in my village last week with about ten officials from Irish Water - spewing raw sewage. The figures are thwarted, anti-farmers and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Septic Tanks (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Could I get the figures that have been inspected?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Septic Tanks (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will expand the scope of the septic tank grants from local authorities to cover larger geographical areas in order for more rural homeowners to avail of it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7351/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Septic Tanks (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Minister of State extend the scope of scheme of sceptic tanks for local authorities? It was announced to great fanfare last September that the grant would be extended. Can the Minister of State expand on this and on the geographical areas where the scheme can be operated and the grant availed of?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the long-awaited review for local authority housing adaptation grants will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7352/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons refused entry to the state every year for the past four years; the reasons for refusal; the point of entry where entry was refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7309/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been refused asylum in Ireland every year for the past four years; the number of deportations that have been carried out each year for the past four years; the number of people given self-deportation orders; the number of those that have been carried out; and if she will make a statement on the...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am delighted to speak on this issue. It is long awaited. I salute those involved in the peace process, none less than former Minister, and a colleague of mine in Tipperary, Martin Mansergh, and, indeed, the late Fr. Alec Reid, John Hume and all the people who tried. We got the peace process and then we saw Stormont stop and start repeatedly, but anois ag dul ar aghaidh,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Adult education tutors have been campaigning for a public service contract with a common, sector-wide incremental payscale for many years. The campaign finally bore fruit when in May of last year the Department of further and higher education published a contract proposal. However, that proposal was full of ambiguity and was not acceptable to the tutors. As was said earlier, they will be...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I thank our guests for coming in today. I am very disappointed with so many things going on and that no real progress has been made. My main questions is to ask how on earth could RTÉ have reappointed Deloitte as the organisation’s auditors? That firm gave a clean bill of health to RTÉ in 2023 and my question is to ask how could it have given that? Is RTÉ keeping...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Chair for the clarification. We need more than apologies. I questioned Ms Doherty at the committee here about the discrimination against female employees being forced to leave at 65 years of age when contracts were being signed with male employees up until the age of 70. This has been going on and the rot has been in there for a long time. We have been told here today that...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: "Betrayed" is what I said.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Thanks for that but, as I said, RTÉ appointed Deloitte, which gave a clean bill of health, despite the fact that the station was facing ruin. It was out of money and depending on a cash injection from the Government. I accept that the board are temporary appointments and I have sat on many voluntary boards, as I am sure many of my colleagues have. We spent two hours one night at a...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: But, surely, what else would they do? That is their job.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I do not expect the firm to be given a bonus for that. Deloitte gave RTÉ a clean bill of health when it should not have, full stop. I am a small businessman, like I am sure are some people around here, and if we operated in this way we would not last weeks, never mind years. Our witnesses have mentioned €15 million of a kind of contingency fund to deal with the multiple tax...