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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I know the Taoiseach is going to launch his summer economic statement this evening. I hope it will not be raining. There are huge concerns about a levy the Government introduced in budget 2023. I refer to the 5% levy on all ready-mixed concrete and concrete blocks. KPMG did a study on this which said it would increase the cost of building a three-bed semi-detached house by €1,300,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: If they can get a doctor.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (4 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how SNAs can contact staff working in the payroll section with queries (details supplied). [32089/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (4 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychology students who graduate from Irish universities every year; the number of psychology placements available every year; if there are any plans to increase the number of placements considering the shortage of psychologists in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32141/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (4 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the clear guidelines for carers in receipt of carer’s allowance where the person being cared for must travel abroad for treatment not available in this State (details supplied); what the carer must do to ensure that they will not have their payment stopped or be threatened with having their payment stopped...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (4 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 418. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Ukrainian refugees who have transferred or sought a transfer to Ireland from another EU country having originally sought protection in that country; the country from which they have transferred or sought a transfer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32140/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Statistics (4 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 424. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions there was between 2015 to 2023 for rape or sexual assault of children under 18 years. [32221/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (29 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance if not-for-profit, community organisations that are not registered charities are liable for tax, or if there are any exemptions for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31726/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (29 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 413. To ask the Minister for Health the availability of funding for the construction of adult day services within the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31727/23]

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Instruction to Committee (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I was wandering around here over the last couple of weeks wondering when this was going to start. I am here almost 16 years, not half as long as the Acting Chair, Deputy Ring, obviously, and every year this happens. Legislation is just turfed in and we are expected to speak to it, deal with it and table amendments to it. It is terrible practice. I thought this year it was not going to...

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the debate on this because the debate to date has been unequal, unfair and, indeed, targeted at rural dwellers, including farmers. They want to play their part. There have been very minor incidents and it is right that these be investigated. The causes of pollution are many. A large proportion of the blame is attributable to many decades of Government policy failure. Farmers...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to be able to speak on this topic. I wonder how the Minister of State faces these pre- and post-European Council meetings. I wonder why he is not embarrassed by the way our citizens are being crucified. Take the issue of energy prices. Prices are 26% higher than in the EU. How can the Minister of State hold his head up and how can Ireland take its rightful place among the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The people in Tipperary and the medical fraternity are very concerned about a reconfiguration that is proposed. It is proposed that South Tipperary General Hospital will be removed from the South/South-west Hospital Group, which has been a very successful partnership, and be aligned with a much larger hospital such as St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, the National Maternity...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: No.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I do, because we are not settled-----

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. You can run, Minister, but you cannot hide. Your hiding days are over because you have abandoned the people of rural Ireland. There is the subterfuge and deceit the Minister and the Government goes on with, the blackguarding it does of farmers and the ineptitude of the Department. You are in bed with Mr. Goodman and the big beef barons. You are in bed with the big supermarkets and...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Excuse me, Acting Chair, but they are obvious to a blind man.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: You did not stop anybody else who mentioned names and all.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: "In bed" is a metaphor. We have not got a bed here. If we had, the Government would be asleep in it all day and would not get up to see the farmers. The farmers get up early in the morning and get up late at night to tend to their animals when they are young, sick or being attacked by marauding gangs of foxes and deer. We cannot have a cull of the deer population which is running riot...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Laugh away. You have something if you have the last laugh.