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- Transfer and Processing of Passenger Name Record Data: Motions (17 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Good. That is the spirit. In a new coalition maybe.
- Transfer and Processing of Passenger Name Record Data: Motions (17 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. Okay.
- Transfer and Processing of Passenger Name Record Data: Motions (17 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: There are two motions to be put before the House. Before calling on the Minister of State to open the debate, I remind Members that two motions are to be decided. An céad motion is on a proposal on the signing of an agreement with Canada on the transfer of passenger name data agus an dara motion is on a proposal on the conclusion of an agreement with Canada on the transfer of passenger...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Last February, public representatives in Clonmel, including the mayor and Councillor Niall Dennehy, were told that 62 modular homes for asylum seekers were being considered for construction on Heywood Road. We did not hear a dickybird since then. I have been trying through parliamentary questions and freedom of information, FOI, requests to get information but I could not get it. Last...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: It should worry you.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The Government is trying to stifle them.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: It should be repackaged.
- Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I compliment the movers of this motion, Solidarity-People Before Profit. Last year, the Minister tried to introduce a British system, which has caused uproar, and we know why. The Green Paper tried to tackle related issues, including the cost of disability and the low employment rate among people with disabilities, with a single policy change and it has not worked. Everyone will know what...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I am very concerned about any plans to pause or review plans for ASD classes in rural areas. In a response to a parliamentary question the Minister for Education stated that, due to falling demographics at primary level, the Department "considers it prudent to maximise the use of existing spare accommodation capacity ... in the first instance, before considering any applications for further...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Because of the narrowness of the vote, that this is a matter of great importance and that the gap is fewer than ten, under Standing Order 83(3)(b), I am asking for a vote other than by electronic means.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Majority.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Anti-democratic.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I raised this at the Business Committee last week, as the Ceann Comhairle knows. I said I would object. I dissented from agreeing the business. The Rural Independent Group and I have been concerned about this not in the past week or days but for more than 18 months. We have been looking for a debate here and we have been denied it. We urgently need a debate. We cannot have a motion...
- Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State (16 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of information, I ask the Taoiseach why he is appointing Deputy Eamon Ryan as Minister for the environment.
- Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State (16 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: He has destroyed rural Ireland, farming and everything else and it is time he was moved out of there. The Taoiseach had an opportunity.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: They had their pets with them.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Thanks be to God it is a lovely day today, but we have had inclement weather since last July now, and all types of farmers and communities are suffering hugely. I welcome the recent fodder package but, as regards cereal farmers, grain farmers and crops, potatoes were not even taken out last year on some farms and none are planted this year. There will be a huge problem with food shortages...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal. I am. It is April.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: What about friends of the people?
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: "Future Ireland fund" - yes, future Ireland indeed. Today, 10 April, is the 101st anniversary of the death in action of Liam Lynch, who fought in the War of Independence and the Civil War. I think of the ideas that man had, the noble man he was and of his many colleagues who gave their lives for freedom across the country from 1916 until that period. We see the democracy we have now and...