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Topical Issue Debate: Funding for ACCORD (14 May 2015)

Mattie McGrath: ...well and doing some wonderful work. This is true of other agencies as well. However, to announce a cut in the budget at this time, when the Minister said last October that he was giving it €26 million extra suggests there is something wrong with the Minister. Is he mixed up or confused? Does the Minister have any word at all? Some €26 million extra was announced, but...

Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Mattie McGrath: ...the Regulation of Lobbying Bill what will the Government do to reign in the outrageous lobbying and funding by Atlantic Philanthropies of groups such as the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, €7 million, Amnesty International Ireland, €5 million-----

Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am talking about that. I told the House it is approximately €41,000, but I am not sure of the exact figure. However, the political parties get €5 million, apart from the 19 Independent Members. That is on top of the ordinary staff and the €126,000 per Member for Fine Gael, the Labour Party, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin. The Government parties get less now that they are in Government.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Allowances Review (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I too thank the Minister for his efforts and honesty in admitting the figure was 5% and that the savings achieved did not come to the €75 million ingrained among the public, leaving egg on everyone's face when only €2.5 million or €3 million was saved. The Taoiseach said he was writing to all line Ministers asking them to come up with savings. Like Deputy Mary Lou...

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...and how ordinary people are suffering and trying to fend for themselves from day to day. We get caught up in tweeting and Facebooking and God knows what kind of spin. I, too, am hugely concerned about the €5 million of taxpayers' money sneakily taken to fund the PR machine for St. Leo, the Taoiseach, "hashtag Leo". He was unable to answer any of the questions asked of him...

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....

Topical Issue Debate: Funding for ACCORD (14 May 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the Minister. Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, informed ACCORD, the Catholic Marriage and Preparation Counselling Service, that €378,000 was being withdrawn from its funding for 2015. Bizarrely, the Tusla letter informed ACCORD that its decision to cut the funding is retrospective and took effect from 1 January 2015, notwithstanding that the letter is dated 7 May 2015....

Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2012)

Mattie McGrath: ...il and Sinn Féin, that is apartheid. Political apartheid is alive and well in this Chamber. What hope is there in talking about this Bill without being honest? I have the figures. A total of €5.456 million was paid out last year. Fine Gael received €2,328,207, the Labour Party received €1,312,000, Fianna Fáil received €1,081,000 and Sinn Féin received €733,000. The...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...money spent by one Department. I am not expecting the Taoiseach to understand the frustration of the people, but he should. The Taoiseach set up his own specialist communications unit at a cost of €5 million. That shows how much he cares about the people. A parliamentary question revealed that €112,000 was spent last year by his Department on entertainment for the guests...

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...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ..., yet it does not receive a fraction of the attention it deserves at Government level. I know that the Minister of State knows that the area of forest cover in the State is estimated to be 731,650 ha, or 10.5% of the total land area of Ireland. That alone speaks to the enormous importance of the sector, not to mention the employment of well over 10,000 people, generating €2.2...

Energy Poverty: Motion (1 Oct 2008)

Mattie McGrath: ...investment programme by the company at home and abroad in support of our goals for renewable energy, energy efficiency, emissions reduction and energy security. EirGrid's development strategy 2025 will be published shortly. This will set out an ambitious national strategy for critical investment in the transmission system over the next two decades in support of economic, social and...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: That answer is pure useless, toothless and fruitless, for that matter. Instead of a €5 million spin machine, would the Taoiseach install mirrors in his office and get a gramophone that will tell him that he is in power, in government, that it was not like that when he got here, that he has been in power for seven years now and should stop blaming the past for everything? He should...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...of rural Ireland as we have been privileged to know it. According to the report from the European Court of Auditors, the first problem is the large reduction in the number of farms. In 2005, there were 14.7 million farms in the European Union. The latest available data put the number at approximately 10 million. Almost 5 million farms have disappeared in the intervening period....

Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...the Taoiseach is more interested in "opinion polls than telecoms poles" and in "optics than fibre optics". That has been the problem with this Government since its inception. We know about the €5 million that was spent on spin. The dysfunctional nature of this Government was on full display in October 2016, when a row about judicial appointments broke out between Fine Gael and...

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: .... I reserve some criticism also for Deputy O'Dea and his colleagues. They have provided the supply and confidence arrangement. They should have started somewhere. Charities got a mere €5 million. The Minister must start somewhere in order to rectify the situation. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, referred to the system being "bonkers". Successive Governments -...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...because it would have a huge impact. The farcical part about it was that tractors travelling at 40 km/h or above were going to be put off the road. Such vehicles could not travel at just 15 km/h. Where I live, one could not get from Dungarvan to the mart or to Castlemartyr. If one got a tractor that was 20 years old and had the lowest box, it could be very defective but one could drive...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...nothing will ever come out of it. It is simple enough to charge people with fraud - naked, basic fraud. I am a small businessman and I know that if financial returns are misstated by any amount of money, be it €1 or €5 million, and I mislead the accountant who signs off on the basis of the figures I supply him-----

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...of the recent analysis performed by publicpolicy.ieon the levels of severe deprivation within the EU. Indeed as publicpolicy.iehas noted, EUROSTAT recently published data to the effect that 7.5% of the population both in Ireland and the EU suffers from severe deprivation. This is a large number of people. The number ranges from 0.8% in Sweden to 31.9% in Bulgaria, which is a staggering...

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...bob here and there. We have people today from all over Ireland asking about the Tús schemes and the rural social schemes. Small money in each community would be wonderful but instead there is €5 million for this and that and €50 million for the other and nothing for ordinary people. My two colleagues are bussing people up to Belfast on nearly a weekly basis to get...