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Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Who will enforce it?

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I too will support the amendment. The Minister of State will be killing small clubs. Small clubs are the backbone of the community, whether they be GAA clubs, as they mainly are down the country, soccer clubs or any other type of club, organisation or community group. The lottery is a big thing, with a split-the-bucket or whatever. They are in every parish and they are very well...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: In ainm Dé, buíochas le Dia, the weather, tá an aimsir tirim inniu. We have had good weather for the past week and it is so badly needed, praise the Lord, because we cannot do anything without God, in my opinion. The weather helps everything. I just spoke to my neighbour, Diarmuid McGrath, and he is setting the potatoes today. We will have potatoes for Christmas dinner. We...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: They are.

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I mean dogs metaphorically.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: In a reply to a question in the House last week the Taoiseach told me there was now a net outflow of Ukrainians from State accommodation. At the same time we find in Clonmel that the Department of Education is putting in 82 modular homes for Ukrainians in Haywood Road. This is without any information whatsoever being provided to me as a directly elected Member and with very little...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the family carers who are in the Public Gallery. Some are from my own county, such as Sophie Hannon, Andrew Rooney of Family Carers Ireland, Councillor Richard Molloy, who is manager of south Tipperary carers, and their supporters and friends, including John Hackett, Dennis Holland and Joan Looby. Indeed, Joan recently lost her sister, Tina, for whom she cared so lovingly, and her...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 142. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if additional rental payments are being made by Ukrainians to top up their ARP; if this is permitted in law; if Ukrainians benefitting from the ARP are given a distinct advantage over ordinary citizens seeking rental properties where the ARP is a tax-free payment for landlords; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of accommodation recognition payments being provided in 2023 and to date in 2024; the type of accommodation provided that is single room in a house/ full house and so on; the amount of rental properties being provided to Ukrainians under this scheme; and the amount of Ukrainians who have transferred...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I want to issue a fíor fáilte roimh gach duine anseo. I want to welcome all the witnesses and thank them for coming. I expected a different response but nonetheless I believe the witnesses are doing their best. It is a messy situation. There is a saying about something rotten in the state of Denmark. There is something very rotten in Montrose. I have been quite straightforward...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The number of 297 is astounding. They were treated appallingly. They were literally dismissed. RTÉ reclassified employees and forced them into yellow pack contracts where terms and conditions were far less than if they had been legally classified as employees in the first instance. How can the TUG stand over such contracts?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: What percentage of the 297 does Mr. Dooley think might have decided themselves that they did not want to stay?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The way Mr. Dooley is talking, you would think there are two silos and there was a big wall between the union and management. Did staff not have representation on the board?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I am sure Mr. Dooley is aware that misclassification of workers as bogus self-employed is a criminal offence under the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005. Is Mr. Dooley aware of that?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Excuse me. I do not read any tweets. I never tweeted in my life. If Mr. Dooley wants to act the twit, he can, but I never read any tweets. I am not told what to say by anybody.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: In an appeal process, surely the union should be jumping up and down, looking for prosecutions. The law has been flouted hundreds of thousands of times on an ongoing basis. The union wants to be and is part of that institution. I have said from the outset that the fraud squad and Criminal Assets Bureau should have been brought into RTÉ. Why is the NUJ not looking for the fraud squad...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The NUJ has not got up at all. It has said plenty. Mr. Dooley is often on radio and I had more respect for him than I have today, because he is being smart. He has a responsibility to the yellow pack workers and the NUJ is not the only union in the public service that has allowed yellow pack workers to be introduced. It does cosy deals with Governments and Departments and to hell with the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Of course.