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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: She sure is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is not a hospital anymore.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is unacceptable that carers have to wait until next July, six months after everybody else, to get their increases. We can all be patronising and talk about what they do but they need the money now, not next July or August. Fully abolishing the carer's allowance means test is recommended by research from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. That is crucial. Once-off payments...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Is that what they are? We do not know anything about them. Is that it, so? Is there to be a secret society? The Green Party is always on about the developers having too much power. Consider the power An Taisce has as a prescribed organisation that has to be notified of every planning application. Of course, where there are listed buildings and protected structures, An Taisce is entitled...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Shame on you. It is not shame on me. That is what the Deputies are doing through a reckless policy, overseen by their Minister in Cabinet now leading the Green Party. What is being done to rural communities in Dundrum, Roscrea, Clonmel and all over the country is shocking. The Green Party protects the members of An Taisce at all costs today because they are Green Party supporters. My...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is a sacred cow. All we ever strive to do – it is in the Bible and the gospel – is do good. If you cannot do good, do not do anything bad. People here say we are trying to do damage or attack. The Deputy mentioned the word "attack" ten times or more in his three-minute speech but we are attacking nobody. We are trying to preserve a decent standard of living for people in...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I have to laugh at the last speaker, Deputy Matthews, because it was so nonsensical and farcical. I will put a question to him and his family members. How many objections have they submitted in Bray and Wicklow?

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You stopped the air show.

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You stopped the air show going ahead in a lovely seaside resort.

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: One person at a time. Deputy Matthews might tell us something else.

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024-----

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I asked a question. I did not make an allegation. It is well known in Bray what you are up to.

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I will speak to the Bill. I thank Brian Ó Domhnaill, our research and policy assistant, and Mairead in our office for their work on this Bill in an effort to help the people of rural Ireland, who the last Deputy dismissed as if we do not know anything about anyone, as if we are Neanderthals or gombeens. Our country is in such a state with the Green Party’s influence over this...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Sorry. I will not be non-factual. He had to be here. That tells you what way Ireland is when we talk about housing, the crisis and everything else. I am very surprised with Deputy Connolly conflating our Bill. It is accidental it has come the same day as the Government has decided to guillotine the planning Bill. We had nothing whatsoever to do with it. We and rural Ireland have...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is such a sacred cow now that we cannot even ask to amend it. The Rural Independent Group previously wrote to An Taisce seeking a meeting. It dictated the terms of the meeting. It wanted to chair the meeting and control us. It is unaccountable and not answerable to anyone. Some of the members of An Taisce are then moved on to An Bord Pleanála. As has been said already, are...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: -----and everything else in business. The people will have the final say in that regard, and congratulations to anyone who comes back. The damage the Green Party did between 2007 to 2011 is still being rigged in rural Ireland. Is uafásach an rud é an damáiste a rinne An Páirtí Glas sa thréimhse sin. It did serious damage and did not allow the planning...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Deputy is doing a very good job of it.

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We do not want it to.

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is true.