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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Adult education tutors are campaigning for a public service contract with a common sector-wide incremental salary scale. There are approximately 3,000 adult tutors who are public servants but who do not have public service contracts or access to an incremental salary scheme. This means that they have to sign on when they are off during the summer, at Christmas and at other times. They need...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We tabled this motion in good faith. The Government has decided not to oppose it but it is a complete cop-out. It is an abject failure of the Department. I am disappointed that the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, is not here for the reply. With the Chair's indulgence, I would like to sympathise with the families of the four young leaving certificate students from Clonmel. They...

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, welcome Lucia and Jim and their daughters, and, indeed, brothers, and their little grandchild today. They should not have to be here. What kind of a cabal of a country are we running? That is all I can call it. I have been in this House for 16 years and I have seen a litany of injustices and cover-ups, from Whiddy Island, ever before I came in here, to the Fr. Niall Molloy killing...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Budget 2024 has spectacularly failed to provide relief to workers. Despite significant financial flexibility, the Government has neglected the concerns of working men and women throughout the country. The Government talks about this but it did not do anything meaningful with the USC. The cuts introduced offer limited relief to low income families while the decision to cut the universal...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, I congratulate the Minister for Finance, Deputy McGrath, on his first budget. I am delighted that his wife and seven children were here to listen. However, it is a failed opportunity. It is a typical accountant’s budget that just moves the figures around and manages them. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, said it was a great country in which to be a...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I too am pleased to have a chance to speak to this Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023. Like previous speakers have said, we did engage with the all-party Oireachtas human dignity group, which had a meeting here. There were presentations from people who really know about this, who work at the coalface. We were shocked at the figures. That is not to say we did...

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...flanked by senior gardaí are no good. It does not cut it. I salute the members of An Garda Síochána for the bravery and courage they have shown against all kinds of adversity. Now, when they need to be supported and respected, they are not getting respect from the Commissioner or from the Minister. She is out minutes after he says he is not going to resign. She is not...

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: I am not asking the Minister about that. As I said, there has been ongoing and persistent discrimination against female people who work in RTÉ. One took a court case which cost €1.4 million. This did not cost RTÉ but cost the taxpayer, as I pointed out at the time. I would like to speak about the extent of the baked and naked fraud which has gone on with respect of...

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

Mattie McGrath: If you are fracking gas, you need to have water to keep things cool. It is all part of the construct that was set up and the separation of duties. I will go back to the gas but I am just saying that we have three reservoirs. There is one in Carrick-on-Suir on the Lingaun river, another in the Ardfinnan regional water scheme and a third in the Galtee region water scheme. They are massive...

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

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle allowing me to contribute this time because my colleagues needed the other time. They had a lot to say on this issue, being from rural Ireland, as we all are in the Rural Independent Group. I am the same. I do not have any personal animosity towards the Minister of State, or the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, whose grandmother - a sheanmháthair - agus a...

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I would like to thank everybody who works in the HSE. Great work is done in many hospitals, including by front-line nurses, doctors, surgeons, secretaries and everybody else. However, there are huge issues around the whole running of the HSE and the Department of Health. I also want to sympathise with the Carter family and the other 17 families involved here. It is truly horrific by any...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I refer to the people outside the gate today, a lovely peaceful protest by workers in small childcare facilities, mainly from rural areas, along with parents and some páistí as well. Earlier the Taoiseach gave a very glib answer, saying that there was only a small crowd of them there. They are very passionate about what they do and they are being treated terribly. The core model...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Chair and welcome Ms Mullins, Councillors Bourke and Dunne and all the people from the other areas who are up here. It is so sad that ordinary people like Ms Mullins, who is a busy woman running her own business, must come up at their own expense and take time off work to deal with a stone wall. The committee requested the minutes of the meeting and got them with so much...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the movers of this very good motion. I take the opportunity to wish good luck to the mná of the Republic of Ireland football squad who have flown out to Australia for the country's first ever appearance in the FIFA Women's World Cup. I wish them good success and enjoyment. The FAI's newly published strategic analysis and vision for the next 15 years details that the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Sports Broadcasting: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...have been put behind the paywall and there was consternation. We had a long meeting about it here. As an Oireachtas member, I am very disappointed about this and also about cashless entrance to matches. I wrote to Mr. McKenna twice on behalf of elderly constituents who paid all their lives but who could not get anybody to book a ticket for them online, and I never even got an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group I would like to express our sympathies to the family of the late Brendan Daly, iar-Aire, iar-Aire Stáit agus iar-Theachta Dála. I had many an interaction with him. He was a jolly man and a hardworking and diligent public representative always. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. Last week the Federation of Early Childhood...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Instruction to Committee (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I was wandering around here over the last couple of weeks wondering when this was going to start. I am here almost 16 years, not half as long as the Acting Chair, Deputy Ring, obviously, and every year this happens. Legislation is just turfed in and we are expected to speak to it, deal with it and table amendments to it. It is terrible practice. I thought this year it was not going to...

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the debate on this because the debate to date has been unequal, unfair and, indeed, targeted at rural dwellers, including farmers. They want to play their part. There have been very minor incidents and it is right that these be investigated. The causes of pollution are many. A large proportion of the blame is attributable to many decades of Government policy failure. Farmers...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: "In bed" is a metaphor. We have not got a bed here. If we had, the Government would be asleep in it all day and would not get up to see the farmers. The farmers get up early in the morning and get up late at night to tend to their animals when they are young, sick or being attacked by marauding gangs of foxes and deer. We cannot have a cull of the deer population which is running riot...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, on behalf of the Rural Independents I wish a speedy recovery to an Teachta McDonald. I challenge the Taoiseach about the possibility of abolishing the USC. It is worth remembering that at the height of the Celtic tiger in 2006 the Exchequer was awash with property-based tax receipts and the then Government reported a budget surplus of €5.1 billion....