Results 1-20 of 137 for going forward speaker:Mattie McGrath

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-----

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He is not discharging his duties. Will the Minister sack Tony O'Brien? How many more scandals must he be involved in? He is going off in July with his big pension. He has a track record with the family planning agencies where there was no investigation into the blackguarding that went on there. He got a green card to go forward. The Minister wants to go out and canvass with Mr. Colm...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat, a Theachta Connolly. I thought it might be helpful because of the distance of Members from the officials but I am in your hands. For clarification, if we suspend for 15 minutes the House will not be going into private session. It is to see if we can get some answers or a roadmap forward from our present dilemma. Is it agreed to suspend for 15 minutes?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jan 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste might be playing little games with Sinn Féin, but I want to go back to the banks. When is this Government going to deal with the banks? The Government removed the moratorium and thousands of small businesses and homeowners are now being threatened and intimidated. Many of them are trying to engage with the banks but they can get no clarity on what is going to happen...

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....

Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Mattie McGrath: The planning condition states that people have to connect through the public main when it becomes available. It is a serious issue going forward.

Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Is there any need to have a Business Committee if this group wants to come in and tear it up every time we agree something? I want statements on this as well - we all do - but we have to go forward in some constructive manner.

Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I want to go forward anyway, rather than back and forth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We cannot go forward in any context if we do not sort out the past.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (24 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason behind the removal of funding for the 'getting citizens online fund'; if it will be restored going forward to assist vulnerable and isolated members of the community in accessing services online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46605/23]

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...the State even more planning powers over people's private property rights. It is as simple as that. We could look at many other areas. I appreciate the right of the Social Democrats to bring forward this motion. Why do we not look, however, at the more than 4,000, which is a conservative figure, empty local authority houses that have been there for decades? All of us know if we go...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...from rural Ireland should know better, but he handled the post office issue appallingly. He could not wait to hand over the issue for Cabinet decision and dissociate himself from it. I do not look forward to what is going to happen. I do look forward, however, to the Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, who is laughing, dealing with DEIS schools in my constituency next year.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cohesive steps he plans to put in place to address the crisis pertaining to agriculture and wider economy in the context of the ongoing heatwave and dry spell and the impact they are having on the entire agricultural sector and the impending shortages there will be until spring 2019 for farmers who need to protect their animals...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (7 Oct 2014)

Mattie McGrath: ...been agreed with both the Department and the programme partners, An Garda Síochána; her plans to continue funding the post of the national co-ordinator and the five regional development officers going forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37800/14]

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward the motion. It is very important that we debate these issues in a sensitive manner. I appreciate the Minister's bona fides. The jury is out as to how it will end up, but it is obvious that the scheme is not fit for purpose. I do not know what is wrong with our departmental system that we cannot come up with sensitive and timely schemes....

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...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There is huge angst over the LEADER programme going forward. Notwithstanding the increase in Exchequer funding for the overall CAP 2023-27, there is a significant cut in LEADER funding for rural areas, with the proposed allocation for the programme falling from €425 million for the 2007-13 programme to just €180 million for this programme. This is astonishing. The...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...this cannot be done any more. They also have to have sensible burning on the mountains, as do very many gun clubs that manage their stocks. This derogation has to be extended because you cannot go into the land to cut the bushes, and where they are cut farmers cannot go in to remove them. In any case, when we stop the burning of them we will have to mulch them, which involves a bigger...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...sharing their knowledge and expertise by advocating and permitting the continuation of Irish dance classes indoors and in socially distanced pods. These are not reckless people but they want to go on with the excellent tuition they have. Many of them danced as daoine óga and went on to be world champions. Look at Riverdance, Brú Ború or the cultural activities of...

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am here, like everybody else, trying to help. I believe that for those with special difficulties in education, we must find the road map forward. Deputy Ó Cuív and others have suggested the Minister would go into a tunnel with the teaching bodies, the SNA representatives and the parents’ representatives. I know of some traumatic situations for parents, as we all do....