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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...last year. Water services members are left with no option but to take this action. They do not want to do it. They are a vital cohort of people who keep the water flowing through our taps 24-7. They entered into negotiations but the LGMA and the local authorities are not honouring the agreements that were made. The workers in question are being forced to go where they do not want to go.

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There are crocodile tears for small farmers and ordinary people. I remind the House that the only people now paying for water in their taps are the farmers, publicans and business people. They are the very people paying for water and so it is easy to have crocodile tears. If this is only for towns the size of Nenagh, why does a farmer extracting water with a 2,000-gallon tank to irrigate...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...in No. 10. What if he takes action, closes down or squeezes the pipe and turns off the gas to a trickle? I recall a former Fine Gael Minister glibly with a glass of water telling us all he would turn off the tap to a trickle. This might come home to roost, and it could be with oil. Our motion merely wants to ensure our children and families are fed, our workers can go to work and our...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Taisce (15 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: .... I asked how they were funding these cases. They told me it was pro bono. Few lawyers will do pro bonocases that go to the High Court several times as well as the European court. It is simply not doable. The tap must be turned off on the funding. I will bring forward an amendment in the autumn to have An Taisce unprescribed because the group have become a nuisance and an irritant...

Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...with students, tuition or learning. He or she has the job of maintaining the school from the front gate right to the back gate, upstairs, downstairs, inside or wherever else. It does not matter if the problem is a tap, a slate or something happening with the grass. It is a fabulous system. It may be BAM Ireland - I could be wrong - that is the consortium that has it leased. It...

International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...decent modicum of responsibility. On the pandemic and the Government's response to it, I have said before that it is a plandemic, which is what it seems to be. They just want to turn off the tap on rural Ireland and cast people's lives away. There were Deputies in here, from the left parties in general, who were crying for zero Covid, including the Labour Party. Now they want to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Turn off the tap of money.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Turn off the tap.

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...when they went from the home and were collected by the bus driver or taxi driver. We must also bring them into the discussions. We cannot expect buses just to be there and to be turned on and off like a tap. It is a loving relationship and a very special relationship but we need to foster it and we need that done delicately and sensitively. There are some parties of the left that...

Covid-19 (Sport): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ..., one can avail of it. However, he did not have his taxes up to date because the doors closed suddenly on that date in March and he could not have them up to date. For this year, for people who paid by direct debit or whatever the tap was turned off on their businesses. Revenue must be flexible in this regard. I am not talking about outstanding tax bills going back over a year. I am...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...bring some joined-up thinking to this crisis? The message is just not getting through. There seem to be no genuine sense of the special circumstances that are preventing areas of Tipperary from tapping into the growth that is slowly starting to materialise in other parts of rural Ireland.

Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...of State mentioned Fianna Fáil and blamed whomever else for negotiating to get rid of water charges. Fine Gael acquiesced. It gave in. It should never have done so. It should have held the ground and turned off the taps for a while of the people who do not want to pay for anything and then they would pay. What about the man who has to go to the well, pay to repair his own well,...

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...or patterns of crime. Technology is the one we really have to grapple with, and I certainly have to grapple with it. It is changing literally by the hour. With Google and Facebook we see how the tap can be turned off regarding interference in a referendum in this country. That is what has happened, but people do not all depend on technology, thank God. They know when something wrong...

Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...patients, elderly and young, are being put through. I saw Deputy Kelly with his crocodile tears. He was part of the Government that destroyed their income and welfare and he wants to turn on the tap now. I would nearly want to give him a handkerchief to stop him from crying, with such tears for the nurses. He did not care about them and walked over them. I seek assurances from...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Services Infrastructure (24 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...a third world state of decay, having been neglected for decades. Some 57% of the water put into the supply system pours through holes and cracks in pipes and goes into the ground, never reaching taps. For there to be 57% leakage is astonishing and far from normal. The Shannon to Dublin pipeline project does nothing to address that, despite its suggested cost of over €1.2 billion....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Stamp Duty (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...an ill-judged decision. As I said on the night of the budget, it is not a good idea to bank budget promises on stamp duty. We saw what happened when things went crazy during the boom before the tap was turned off following the bust. It is not reliable and, therefore, a concern.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...that should be paid for, but the water charge on every hairdresser, undertaker, shop, hotel, farmer, stonemason and other type of business has been doubled. There are double charges if people have taps on different pieces of land, yet we now have this nonsensical fallacy of debating paying back money. It is unfair on rural dwellers who must supply their own water or maintain their group...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...group scheme providers and the private individuals who had wells for all the infrastructure they had. One would swear that when Irish Water came along there was not a pipe, reservoir, stopcock or tap but we are all going to the well to draw water with buckets and barrels and herding the cows into the river. Insulting language was used at the time to denigrate what the councils had not...

Roads Funding: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: .... They want to have it ever which way - in government and out of government. They do not know what they want. They are like the dog in the manger. They are in opposition and can turn off the tap whenever they like but we are about rural people and rural Ireland. We do not begrudge Dublin the Luas, the Port Tunnel or the M50. We use them ourselves. However, we want a fair and equal...

Establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the National Asset Management Agency: Statements (1 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...further. I have a grandchild aged three years who is learning that an orange light means "slow" while red lights mean "stop" but there are no green lights. The lights are turned off, as is the tap, and there is a huge blockage. A three year old can see that something is not right in the State of Ireland when we need to wait for the Committee of Public Accounts to finalise its report...