Results 81-100 of 399 for going forward speaker:Mattie McGrath

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: These are the most basic untruths. Are they asleep at the wheel? They will hear about it from their electorate, when they go back. It is shocking that they will not allow timber to be cut. We will bring forward Private Members' legislation to deal with an issue with afforestation. There are people, who in good faith, enter 25-, 30- or 40-year cycle, with the expectation that they could...

Garda Siochana (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ..., and his dad was a former chief superintendent, we acknowledge it is a huge loss that we are struggling to fill. Superintendent Denis Whelan left us yesterday to return to Enniscorthy in Wexford. He is a good Wicklow man, who did tremendous work in Cahir and Cashel in the last number of years. He has appointed Sergeant Ray Moloney, a Limerick man and an excellent community garda, to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Someone needs to expose the farce that is going on with the ring-fencing of carbon tax money. It is not happening. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, has a waiting list of two and a half years. In Spain, electricity taxes are being cut temporarily and windfall grants for energy are being supported. Italy has injected €1.2 billion into its energy system to reduce...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...of a new agency, which is the bit I do not like, the maritime area regulatory authority, or MARA. I remember “Mara” used to be referred to on “Scrap Saturday” and that was P. J. Mara, God rest him, a friend of mine. I hope this will not be another quango. We have so many of these quangos and agencies. If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will allow me to digress a...

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

Mattie McGrath: .... As we know, it is a prescribed organisation and planning permission has to be referred to the organisation if the site is anywhere near a national heritage area or listed building. I believe that it has gone into overreach. We have a situation involving a Glanbia plant in south Kilkenny. The group have been holding it up now for several years. Planning permission was granted by...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...else. There were people today running onto them to see what kind of seats they had. A seat on a bus is a seat on a bus. It just needs safety belts, like any bus. There is no talk about how they are going to run. I hope there will be a push board on the back of it for when the bus stops for lack of charge or hydrogen so that passengers can push it out of the way if it stops in the...

Proceeds of Crime (Investment in Disadvantaged Communities) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas leis na Teachtaí Mark Ward agus Ruairí Ó Murchú for bringing forward this important Private Members' Bill. It is nice to hear the initiatives being rolled out by the Minister of State also. I honestly believe that the community policing and the different initiatives the Minister of State talked about are too little too late. Drugs, drug crime, and...

Proceeds of Crime (Investment in Disadvantaged Communities) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am not. It is there. We can all be careful and go around the house and mind the dresser, but let us deal with this. How are we going to reform it? How will we get the likes of the legislation, which these good Deputies have put forward tonight, and people want to support it and have the debate-----

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

Mattie McGrath: ...as láthair today and sends his apologies. We badly need reforms right across the education sector from na naíonraí or playschools to third and fourth level. As far as I am concerned, education goes from the cradle to the grave. The Minister of State is very understanding and is always top of her brief. She might come from the same stable as I do in dealing with such...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...and denying local builders, whether small one-man operations with a couple of subbies or the builders with eight or ten people working for them. The effect of some of the amendments they have put forward will deny those people work. I am not talking about the likes of the company involved in the children's hospital fiasco. I am talking about people of and from the community, people with...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I commend the Regional Group on bringing forward this motion. Deputy Naughten did what he could, which was a lot, when he was Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment. I have been in the House since 2007 and I am like a bad record talking about post offices. I believe the Minister, if I am not wrong, was a postmaster. I could be wrong, but the Minister should understand...

European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Tá ceist mhór agam i gcomhair an Aire Stáit. What was the delay in putting Ireland's application forward? The big question remains as to the delay at the European Commission and why we only looked for €1 billion. I was always taught as a little buachaill óg going to the shop to look for more than one could get and take one's share then. Denmark, which has a...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am not going to speak because many Members want to speak and we are running out of time for all the amendments that are there. I have moved the amendment and I am merely saying it is disappointing that the Minister is steadfast. The Minister remains resolute that he will not accept any amendment - no matter what it is - except ones he himself brought forward to committee. That is a pity....

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...He is one of the hardest working Deputies to ever come out of Cork South-West. I refer to what he has done for the fishing sector. I remember the day of the protests in Cork, when he left here to go down to those protests and then came back up here to resume his duties and to speak on behalf of those fishermen. There was an attempt by the Taoiseach to belittle Deputy Michael Collins....

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am truly shocked that the Minister persists with these draconian measures. He sees the rising opposition, thankfully in the House as well. People have woken up to see what is going on: the power grab. The Government has consistently and deliberately stoked fear over the coronavirus while behaving like an authoritarian regime, relying on police state tactics. The Government's handling of...

Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputy Doherty for bringing forward the Bill and compliment him on his relentless challenge to the racket in insurance. I wish the Minister of State well. He is a decent man and will try his best but I am disappointed tonight that he is buying another nine months for the insurance companies to rob us blind. Why would they not when the Government has let them off? This has been...

Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, issue my comhghairdeas to the Sinn Féin Party and, indeed, to Deputy Martin Kenny for bringing forward this motion. I know the Deputy has worked tirelessly behind the scenes to try to get as much support and achieve as much unanimity as possible. We had that, or as near as possible to it, in a debate here last week. As I said then, since independence, Ireland has had a proud...

Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (20 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...Ireland and how hard it is to create a home. Homes are being knocked down by rockets and bombardments in front of our eyes. Families are being wiped out. There is a genocide and a plantation going on in Gaza. It is happening incrementally. We have the numbers. We have seen the might of Israel. I do not condone Hamas throwing rockets into Israel. It is being provocative. Quite...

Financial Resolution 2021 - Financial Resolution: Stamp Duties (19 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...We are closing the stable door long after the horse has bolted. The horses have been dancing around the Curragh. We saw before the financial crash the people who were visiting the tents, playing golf, attending race meetings and minding the horses. We saw where that got us. We invited these investors in. I accept that there were a number of problems at the time, however. We could not...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I also thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this very important motion. It is time we got our act together on this, as we need to with housing. I have been involved with this a long time and have seen schemes like Skeheenarinky, where it took 50 years for delivery. It was so slow the county sent a report to the relevant Department and it had to wait six months for a reply. The...