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- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Fianna Fáil fully supported the previous Government. The Taoiseach should accept its mistakes too.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Leaky Leo.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Deal with the leaks.
- Flood Prevention Policies: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I am very sorry, Chairperson, if you cannot get the name right. We are the Rural Independent Group and we sponsored this motion.
- Flood Prevention Policies: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Several Deputies today called us the Independent Group which Deputy Catherine Connolly is. Others called us the Regional Group. It is just blackguarding. We understand flooding. I am not saying other Members from rural areas do not. Surely, however, they can get our name right. We have not much hope of getting the flooding sorted out if they cannot get our name right. Who are we? We...
- Flood Prevention Policies: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: You said Regional Independent Group.
- Flood Prevention Policies: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: You said Regional Independent Group. I am not deaf. Or am I? There are other Members here too. It is not just you, Acting Chairman. Other Members have referred to us as everything. We were bad enough to be tied in with a cabal that Shane Ross had before the last election. We were mixed up with them. We have a clear identity. We are rural people and proud of it. We are representing...
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Departmental Priorities and Effects of Covid-19: Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport, Gaeltacht and Media (4 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I too welcome both Ministers and wish them well with their briefs. We, in Tipperary, have a radio station, Tipp FM, that is second to none. We also have a community radio station, Tipp Mid West. Those stations are being squeezed to death and need support. They also require a favourable wage support system, which would help SMEs such as those radio stations that employ a lot of people,...
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Departmental Priorities and Effects of Covid-19: Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport, Gaeltacht and Media (4 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I prefer to dance.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Departmental Priorities and Effects of Covid-19: Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport, Gaeltacht and Media (4 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The Senator must have had an awful session.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste suggests he has different rating of friends, that some are distant friends, some are absent friends and some are friends for the time being. I have a picture on my phone of the Tánaiste and Dr. Ó Tuathail involved in a certain march in Dublin in 2019 - very close context and very good friends. Dr. Ó Tuathail used the Tánaiste as a puppet and the...
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste is denying he is a friend.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I am not dealing with innuendo. The photograph was there. The Tánaiste has said Dr. Ó Tuathail was not his friend. Does the Tánaiste accept he is having a Nixon moment? Former US President Nixon said that when a president does something, it is not illegal. When the Taoiseach did this, it seems it was not illegal. What example does this give to the rest of the Government,...
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I am surprised by many of the answers the Tánaiste has given. This contract was worth more than €210 million and I would have thought that Cabinet confidentiality and the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 would have prevented him from sharing confidential documents. Has the Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, made any demands of the Tánaiste in exchange for his continued...
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I have done so once or twice. Does the Tánaiste accept that if Fianna Fáil and the Green Party were not in such a dismal situation, his actions would already have collapsed this Government when he has already got the heads of two Fianna Fáil Ministers, Deputies Cowen and Calleary, for very minor misdemeanours?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The regulations for level 5 are full of inconsistencies. Two weeks ago the coursing industry received a hammer blow which stopped coursing even though clubs were in the middle of it. Today I raise a diktat issued last Thursday evening in relation to the pheasant shooting season, which was due to open on 1 November. People are not allowed go out with their guns and dogs, out into the wilds....
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: It is not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: We are not agreeing to it. We are being told this in the middle of the Order of Business and the amount of time being provided is not adequate to have proper, meaningful questions and answers. The public needs this and we need this, because it could be far-reaching in its effects on other contracts and other important issues of State. The national children's hospital comes to mind, as does...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Fourteen minutes is not enough time, so I oppose the proposal.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The Government is trying to hide, not us.