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- Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: We accept that.
- Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: By closing St. Michael's and St. Luke's.
- Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister cannot pinch them either.
- Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: To hell or to Connacht.
- Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: When?
- Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Thanks for the invitation.
- Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Ta mé anseo.
- Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Fully deliver on it.
- Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to say a few words on this Bill. I welcome it and compliment the Minister on bringing it forward. However, I have some worries and reservations about it in terms of whether it goes far enough and will have teeth such that it will put manners on many of the reckless bankers. I am talking about senior bankers, not the ordinary bank staff or local management, to whom many...
- Order of Business (26 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: U-turn.
- Order of Business (26 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: It is all that side.
- Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, welcome the opportunity to record my views on the Keane report. I do not have any hang-up about the composition of the committee referred to by the previous speaker. It is a pity some people have a hang-up about that because it was the bankers, in the main, who got us into this mess and their expertise, if they have any left, should be sought out. They have a role to play in that...
- Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I did not interrupt Deputy McCarthy. I am not talking about a victim. I am saying we have to protect them.
- Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: We can examine aspects but it is not realistic to expect a family who have not speculated to give up their home. They merely tried to put a roof over their heads and provide for their family and it is unrealistic to expect them to relinquish their stake in that house and rent again.
- Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The banks approved the massive mortgages and they are not expected to take any of the hit. That is unrealistic. The banks must take a hit. When the Deputies opposite were in opposition they were shouting about the senior bondholders in banks. I appreciate what they are trying to do but we must have a level playing field. We cannot have the banks getting off. We also must reform the...
- Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: -----because people will be demonised for ten, 15 or 20 years or for life. That is killing the spirit of the Irish people. They are in enough trouble at the moment but it is killing entrepreneurship in terms of anyone who is self-employed. Anyone who is trying to work every day and face that every night must find it impossible to sleep.
- Written Answers — Organised Crime: Organised Crime (25 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Question 228: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of cash for gold companies that currently exist here; the number of new cash for gold companies that have been established in the past two years; the industry specific regulations by which these companies are regulated; his views on whether this industry requires some industry specific regulations; his plans to...
- Written Answers — Organised Crime: Organised Crime (25 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of scrap, iron and metal yard companies that currently exist here; the number of new companies that have been established in the past two years; the industry specific regulations by which these companies are regulated; his views on whether this industry requires some industry specific regulations; his plans to...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Question 265: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total cost to the taxpayer of all works related to the name change of her Department from the Department of Social and Family Affairs to the Department of Social Protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30979/11]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Question 272: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a social welfare appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31010/11]