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An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I will outline our amendment, which states: AN SCEIDEÁL 1. I gCuid 1, Leathanach 6, líne 5 go 8 a scrisadh an méid soe a leanas a chur ina n-ionad: “Admhaíonn an Stát go dtugtar taca don Chomhdhaonnacht, ar taca é nach bhféadfaí leas an phobail a ghnóthú dá éagmais, de...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...and put it beyond our reach in the committee. Following up on Deputy Griffin's point, in the first meeting we had with the group from RTÉ, what I learned from that day was that it spent €1.4 million, I think, on settling with Revenue. It answered some of the questions. It said it had probably four times that much, which would go to €5 million or €6 million....

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...this country and, indeed, the visionaries who brought electrification to all of rural Ireland, they did some job. For the last ten years, we have talked about broadband and we cannot bring it in. We are spending hundreds of millions. There are many good private providers, one-man and one-woman bands, and perhaps a couple of people working who have their own masts and provide it in...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...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, it would add an...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I rise to support amendment No. 5 which was tabled by Deputy McNamara. I am bemused or intrigued. He mentioned the foresight that the former Minister, Deputy Bruton had. He was around the House a long time. I think he is an t'athair an Tigh. I would love to know why, when he was a Minister of State, Deputy Troy changed it. This is what intrigues me most about what is going on with this...

Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...assistance. The lack of CAMHS intellectual disability, ID, specialists is a serious failing and must be urgently addressed. I welcome the recent appointment of a new CAMHS ID specialist in CHO 5 who serves south Tipperary. However, she needs a full team around her and the absence of appropriate CAMHS ID units in this country is simply appalling. The experience of families that have...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...global masters and is not working in the interests of the people here. We have come through the charade. Deputy Lowry said previously that he has been here for 40 budgets. I have been here for 15 or 16. I missed last year's because I was sick. It is a charade now. It is all out in the media. There was a press conference this morning. I do not know what the Ministers went to that...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...the midlands, which is the place he talked about in respect of just transition. It is the most unjust transition and imposition that was ever dreamed of. It must be some of the 36,000 NGOs the Government has now, costing €5 billion a year, that come up with these lovely acronyms and lovely names, such as "just transition". It is the most unjust, regressive, punitive legislation....

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...wave, this means that Ireland's deaths, thankfully, are flat and not going up as in the EU, thank God. The UK and Ireland are past the peak of the Delta variant. That is the science and they are the facts, thankfully. The number of deaths per million per day is 1,000 in the EU, which is horrific, 100 in the UK and ten in Ireland. The 1:10 Ireland-UK ratio per capitahas been the same...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...been unfortunate deaths. I hope those responsible in the State will be brought to The Hague or somewhere for crimes against humanity. Some 2,000 people died in nursing homes and they all had families and loved ones. Some 750 people contracted Covid in a hospital ward, including a good friend of mine. That is 2,750 deaths, if we can believe any of the figures. They have been up and...

Covid-19 (Mental Health): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...see this, it is not necessary. Greed is everywhere. What we want now is help and support for our people as a nation. We need to have more funding put into mental health. Our spending is only at 5% and 6% where other European countries are at 12%. Yesterday a €400 million budget that we did not spend last year was allowed be held onto this year. It is shocking to see the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ..., under the supervision and management of its wonderful matron, Ms Walsh, and her team. There have been no negotiations with private nursing homes. We are told that a new hospital would cost €5 million to €6 million and I want that examined. I want an independent arbitrator to evaluate what is wrong with St. Brigid's and how much it would cost to put it right in order...

Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (10 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...There are technical issues to be worked out. When I raised this two weeks ago, it was in the context of being very privileged in Clonmel to have a very profitable and healthy credit union. Approximately €1.7 million is to go back to the pockets of borrowers and members before Christmas, as happens every year, but the fact it could not hold the AGM meant that this could not been...

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (23 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ..., Food and the Marine. Certain officials have a vested interest and they are destroying this industry. We should remember that it is a business for many people. Thousands of jobs are involved and millions of euro. This must be sorted out. I plead with the Minister to allow coursing events to go ahead. It is amuigh faoin spéir, where we should all be, out in the fields. That is...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...'Donoghue about breaking news. The media should be curtailed because they have people frightened for their lives. There is breaking news morning, noon, night, midnight, an hour after and again at 5 a.m. They have our hearts broken with it. Tá na daoine amuigh sa tír briste. They are frightened, scared, worried and confused. The Minister told me yesterday that my...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...€300,000 will pay €80,000 more over the course of 30 years than their European counterparts. Why is that? This budget will cripple ordinary people. Na daoine aosta got nothing, not even €5 in their pensions. The ordinary working man agus mná ag obair i gcónaí who, in the words of the Tánaiste, get up go luath ar maidin have been ignored. The...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...with wastage and how money announced for various sectors does not percolate down to the ordinary person on the street. The announcement of the new Covid restrictions support scheme of up to €5,000 per week for businesses impacted by level 3 or higher Covid-19 restrictions is welcome. It is certainly needed by the industry. Budget 2021 also provides a support scheme of...

Post-European Council: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...of the recent pre-Council statements, I raised the challenges that would emerge to Ireland's farming and agriculture sector in the context of the EU commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. I did so while highlighting the findings of the European Commission Joint Research Centre report which found that Ireland was the most carbon-efficient producer in the European Union per unit...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...is increasing the stamp duty paid by insurance firms on health insurance policies, which is the first increase in three years. As reported, the Government has said that the 1% increase of €5 in the stamp duty for policyholders with advanced contracts is not only necessary to support more affordable policies for older and less healthy people but also extremely modest, as the first...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...there will be Oireachtas inquiry. This will be another investigation, maybe even a tribunal, while the Taoiseach rides off into a big job in Europe along with Big Phil the enforcer. At least €1.5 billion must be found in the national development plan in addition to the €800 million already allocated to the national broadband plan. The people who I represent in...