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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Swimming Pools (1 Jul 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and her team for allowing both of us to contribute on these Topical Issue matter tonight. I also thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach for his latitude. I also appealing to the Minister of State regarding this issue. I have many question about Tusla and its operations. This facility we are talking about has been renowned for half a century and more. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Swimming Pools (1 Jul 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I too support my colleague and implore the Minister of State in this regard. I have an issue with Tusla. God forgive me, it cannot even account for the approximately 50 children who have gone missing in State care in recent years. There is a meeting here to discuss this tomorrow as well. Why is Tusla involved in this premises at all? It is a wonderful facility. As I said, we have two...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Education and Training Boards (1 Jul 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am disappointed to hear that. There is clearly a misunderstanding because there are students who have enrolled for courses in September. That is inaccurate information that Tipperary ETB has supplied to the Minister of State. I will quote the comments of a student, who said the course made them come out of their shell a lot. The student said it is the best thing they have done and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Education and Training Boards (1 Jul 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach for allowing me to share time with my colleague in south Tipperary, Deputy Michael Murphy, on this issue as it is of concern to both of us. Management of the Tipperary ETB shared devastating news with the local training initiative co-ordinators, LTIs, at four centres in south Tipperary. It informed them that due to budgetary constraints from...

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, support this motion. I would question some aspects of it but the theme of it is very important. Are we going to abandon our forefathers and foremothers, people of our heritage? We had the Éamonn Bulfin Legacy Pipe Band from Argentina in Tipperary at the Liam Lynch national commemoration cúpla bliain ó shin. I thanked An Post because it obliged by giving the band a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (26 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 40. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the Government’s position on the proposed World Health Assembly pandemic treaty, which would confer sweeping new powers on the World Health Organisation in future public health emergencies; and if the Government intends to fully support this treaty, or will reject any provisions that may interfere with national sovereignty, medical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 52. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that a sustainable funding stream will be provided to a centre (details supplied) in Tipperary that provides training, support and employment for people with mental health issues in south Tipperary to ensure the sustainability of the centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33914/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 81. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the new 60-bed community nursing unit for Cashel, County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33912/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (26 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 120. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to publishing the Government’s negotiating stance on the World Health Assembly’s pandemic treaty; the legal advice underpinning Ireland’s position; and to guarantee that any treat will be subject to full parliamentary scrutiny and public debate before ratification. [26752/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (26 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 313. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to improve recruitment of the home care assistants to reduce the number waiting for an actual service in Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33913/25]

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to speak. I support this amendment because this is a matter of choices. We can talk about the election and who did and did not get into government and what the results were. The fact is that we have a squeezed middle. The Minister's former leader was always talking about them - the men and women who get up early in the morning and go to work....

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the Minister. The motion regarding the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and the motion regarding the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 are being taken together and are related. I call the Minister.

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I support this motion. How many more motions and debates are we going to have to get some realism and reality applied to the disastrous situation in which we find ourselves with regard to housing? It is organised mayhem. Every speaker – I had a chat last night with my colleague in south Tipperary – states housing is the number one issue. Our clinics are bogged down and there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Apologies for being late. I welcome the two lots of speakers. I wish Mr. O'Hara all the best in his retirement and Mr. Martin the best in the future. It is a good model to have both An Post and the postmasters here because for years we have been talking to both and the two never seemed to add up. I salute the postmasters and postmistresses and, indeed, the fir an phoist and mná an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: An Post is doing it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: An Post is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I disagree with Mr. McRedmond because in that case in Clogheen alone, it was too prohibitive. I refer to the costs and the space taken up in a small shop. It is different in the SuperValu stores. They are working well there and I thank SuperValu for engaging and keeping the service. In a small shop, the costs, security implications and so on are excessive. An Post cannot get any young...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (25 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether it is the school or her Department which bears responsibility under the Bí Cineálta framework, in circumstances where a child is affirmed in a new gender identity at school, but later comes to believe this caused more harm than good; the reason, when numerous education agencies around the world have shifted towards more...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (25 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 180. To ask the Minister for Health to provide clarity regarding the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Act 2024 on who will have the authority to make the decision on whether a person is brain dead or not; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34571/25]

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak on this issue and thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. As we know, most parties in this House and in this country say they are in favour of a united Ireland. They say they are in favour of many things. It is nice to say. I want to put it on the record that I am fully in favour of a united Ireland. I come from a republican family. My late dad was in the...