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Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Can I make brief point of clarification please, a Cheann Comhairle, le do thoil?

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Briefly, that was a state of the nation address but I will be brief. The Minister, Deputy McGrath, referred to us in the Rural Independent Group when calling a stand-up vote. There was an amendment to these increases back in early July. We pushed it to a vote and we did stand and there was nobody inside of the House to stand with us. There were five of us. Perhaps an Teachta Doherty will...

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I told the Ceann Comhairle that I would only be a minute and I appreciate that, but the Deputy's party did not stand up to vote to stop this increase where it should have been stopped, and not now where they are trying to close the door when it is gone.

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have spoken out about decarbonisation. Why did you not vote with us then and now you want to get our backing for it? The public can see what is going on.

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I would like to thank everybody who works in the HSE. Great work is done in many hospitals, including by front-line nurses, doctors, surgeons, secretaries and everybody else. However, there are huge issues around the whole running of the HSE and the Department of Health. I also want to sympathise with the Carter family and the other 17 families involved here. It is truly horrific by any...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: There are delays across the public service and indeed the private service, including in the National Driver Licence Service, NDLS. If a young or other person in Clonmel applies today for a driving test, it will be nearly the end of February before he or she will be allowed to go on the portal to apply again. There is a waiting list of up to nine months for people to do a driving test in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I refer to the people outside the gate today, a lovely peaceful protest by workers in small childcare facilities, mainly from rural areas, along with parents and some páistí as well. Earlier the Taoiseach gave a very glib answer, saying that there was only a small crowd of them there. They are very passionate about what they do and they are being treated terribly. The core model...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 223. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will move urgently to extend the current work permits/visa requirements to allow farm operatives to be employed under the work permit scheme to alleviate the crisis facing the pig industry and their inability to recruit staff; if he is aware of the research showing that almost 50% of pig farmers will be forced to exit the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Work Permits (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what immediate efforts he is taking to help reduce the acute staff shortages being experienced by pig farms; if he has engaged with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment to have the current work permits and visa requirements extended to allow farm operatives to be employed under the work permit scheme; his views on the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The town of Clonmel in south Tipperary has been devastated this summer by water outages. It was one of the wettest summers in history and people were aghast to find that for 40 different days, there were outages at the Talbot Hotel in Clonmel and large parts of the town of Clonmel. People just cannot believe that Irish Water is treating its customers like this, both domestic and business...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister did not call to see the hotel. He was taking photographs.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I would say you were.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Statements.

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, can see that people are being robbed blind with tax, but the banks are getting away with murder. They are in bed with Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party. I cannot believe that after the bailout and the misery and persecution they put on people, the banks are back now doing the very same again. What is the Government doing? As I said previously to the Ceann Comhairle,...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They must have forgotten about our guests.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: In disgust.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Deputy is in Fine Gael. Why did he back them?

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Fair is fair.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Why did the Deputy not?