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Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2015: Second and Subsequent Stages (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the decision taken by the Ministers for the Environment, Community and Local Government and Transport, Tourism and Sport to introduce this badly needed legislation. I salute Verona Murphy, the Irish Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport Association of Ireland for the lobbying they did on this matter. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport promised to introduce...

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2015: Second and Subsequent Stages (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I will praise him when necessary and build him up to take him down, if that is all right. Whether building a load of bales, blocks or cattle, I give praise where it is due. I acknowledge that this measure was badly needed as hauliers here were facing unfair competition from hauliers in the North. We have a high level of exports and need hauliers and drivers to transport them. They do...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I support Deputy Daly's amendment. It is part of the bureaucracy of the State and huge efforts have been made by many people to have the situation rectified over many years with many meetings and commitments. Now that we finally have the Finance Bill we are told we must wait further. It is very unfair to people and families trying to create a home for themselves by buying it or having it...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputy Lowry for allowing me a few seconds to appeal to the Minister of State and the bureaucrats in the HSE. I fully concur with what was said by Deputies Lowry and Healy. The children in question are the most affected in any school. They should be treated where they are and not dragged around the county to clinics that are already full and overflowing and to which people with...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: There are 12,500 children waiting.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I am not talking about that. I am talking about the medical services Bill.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: That is not an answer.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: People deserve treatment.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: They are not interested in under sixes. That is only a joke. They need a GP.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I never got an answer on the Bill.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: It is in the book.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: A serious matter has arisen regarding the National Association of General Practitioners, which has stated that 32 general practitioner positions in rural practices have been left unfilled. The most recent manifestation of this has been in Bansha, County Tipperary, a place the Tánaiste knows very well. The Health Service Executive has refused to advertise a general practitioner position...

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I am referring to the general practitioners Bill. A wide area surrounding Bansha, County Tipperary, will be left without a general practitioner if the Government does not listen.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: It is on the Order Paper.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: The general practitioners services Bill. I do not know if it features in the promised legislation document but it is included in the document I read five minutes ago.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: It is in the document. More important, people in Bansha need a medical service because they do not have one.

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: The Wild Atlantic Way.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: Christmas is a month from today.

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: One has to till it first.

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)

Mattie McGrath: Paddy needs to know. The Taoiseach needs to know.