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Order of Business (8 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Níor chuala mé é sin.

Order of Business (8 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: We have been promised a local government reform Bill. It is very unfair that people who are in public life or who want to enter it have no indication as to what the constituencies will be in the next local authority elections. I understand the local authority and European elections are being brought forward by one month and are less than one year away. When will we have dates and the...

Order of Business (8 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I want to know when the corruption legislation is being brought forward. These are the corrupt people that are attacking people's homes. I thought it was illegal to break into a home without a warrant yet this is happening up and down the country. It must be stopped before someone is hurt, seriously injured or killed. It is devastating. There was a young mother, two small babies and an...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: In 1998, 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died when the dissident republican group, the Real IRA, detonated a car bomb which ripped through the County Tyrone market town of Omagh on 15 August. More than 200 people were injured in the blast. The attack was described as Northern Ireland's worst single terrorist atrocity and by the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, as...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. However, in order to find out the truth or anything else, one must look and examine. I do not doubt the Taoiseach's sincerity, even if I have concerns about the appalling pace of progress for the families and victims. I wish to make it clear to the Taoiseach that this is a case of significant State failings by successive British and Irish Governments....

Topical Issue Debate: Broadband Services Provision (8 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: We all care about Cahir.

Topical Issue Debate: Broadband Services Provision (8 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Do not forget Cahir.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Issues (8 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for the change in the by-laws which have been introduced recently to prohibit the use of worms, prawns and shrimp when fishing for salmon and sea trout on the River Suir; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21620/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: FÁS Training Programmes (7 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 588 of 16 April 2013, the avenue available to a person who is unemployed or disabled and not in receipt of a social welfare payment to engage in a training course when they have been advised by their local FÁS Office that they are not entitled to participate in any course because they are not in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Collection (7 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 265. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 784 of 16 April 2013, the reason the full rate of Non Principal Private Residence is being charged for 2013 when those properties are also liable for the local property tax in view of the fact that this constitutes double taxation of the one property; the reason the NPPR was not at...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inland Fisheries Issues (7 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 328. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact hat repair works to a fallen bridge on the border of South Tipperary and Waterford is being delayed until August/ September by the Inland Fisheries; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this road is closed and will remain closed until August/ September unless these works are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (7 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 330. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a disadvantaged area payment has not been made to a person (details supplied) in CountyTipperary; when payment will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21169/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Maintenance (7 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 420. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact hat repair works to a fallen bridge on the border of South Tipperary and Waterford is being delayed until August/ September by the Inland Fisheries; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this road is closed and will remain closed until August/ September unless these works are...

Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to be able to speak on the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012. The purpose of the Bill is to extend the remit of Science Foundation Ireland to enable it to fund applied research in addition to its existing remit to fund oriented basic research. Oriented basic research is an internationally-recognised category of research and is defined...

Order of Business (2 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: The Government's strategic infrastructure sub-committee always meets in time of crisis, including flooding and other emergencies. Will that sub-committee be convened to deal with the fodder crisis? I know that we have sunshine and a bit of heat now, but this major infrastructural problem will continue into the autumn, winter and next spring. Figures released last night confirm that there...

Order of Business (2 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted. Last night's figures have shown an increase of up to 61% in dead animals in some areas. It is a big issue.

Order of Business (2 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I do not think it is being grasped. The Government has a strategic infrastructure sub-committee, including the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Finance, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. We are depending on agriculture for our economy to recover, yet it is getting a hammering. The situation...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Yesterday, the heads of the protection of life during pregnancy Bill were discussed in the House. It was condemned by some as a positive compromise and condemned by others as not going far enough. I suggest both approaches are seriously flawed. The very content of the Bill in its current form undermines the very rights it sets out to protect.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I waited with the greatest respect and I hope to get respect. I want to speak on behalf of people who have a different view.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I had to write to the Ceann Comhairle last week. He does his best always, but we are not being allowed to speak and it is not fair on us over here.