Results 10,181-10,200 of 20,761 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (12 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social welfare supports and options that are in place for self-employed persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52859/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Members (12 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce a statutory requirement for local authorities to provide timely and substantive responses to representations made by local elected representatives and councillors to their respective local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53140/17]

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, we are not the rural alliance. Deputy Ryan should not contaminate us with the Independent Alliance. We are the Rural Independent Group. Can that be rectified?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, again, this Bill is being forced on us and it should not be discussed on a Friday in the first place. We are here but nobody other than one speaker from the Government side is here so I am calling for a quorum. We reduced the numbers required for a quorum yesterday to allow people to speak but we still cannot fill it.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is already.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They say a few masses on a Sunday.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: If it will still be open.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, the Minister had to leave but he is back in the Chamber. We were not circulated with a script earlier, and we were not circulated with scripts yesterday for two or three statements. I asked all the staff here and I know it is not their fault. Scripts were not delivered. It happened twice yesterday while I was here, and it happened again this morning. That is...

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I asked for it at the outset. I was here to make up the quorum as well.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It shows contempt for the House. It is the third time this has happened in two days.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It happened today, and twice yesterday.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is not your fault, a Cheann Comhairle. It is the arrogance of the Ministers who wander into the House without a script.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is. What else is it? It is unacceptable.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, it shows contempt for the House that there are so few Government Deputies here. I call a quorum.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am happy to speak today on the Paradise Papers. Some weeks ago, I raised the matter of our banks' predatory behaviour with respect to tracker mortgages during Leaders' Questions with An Taoiseach. As I stated at that time, I believe it important to speak on this because such episodes as the tracker mortgage scandal reveal where the real centres of power lie in this State. The...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I withdraw whatever unparliamentary language I used. I did not intend it in that way; I only intended to be jocose. I was not trying to go at them either. Unfortunately, there is a problem with carbon credits in agriculture, as Deputy Fitzmaurice and others have said. This relates to where people are putting in afforestation. They are not allowed keep the credits. Big business has...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is with O'Leary in the grave. That is what the Government wants: nothing in rural Ireland, a wasteland. We have announcement after announcement here and there about this, that and the other. The Minister can smile and laugh all he likes. We have the Minister of State with responsibility for the Gaeltacht, the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Next thing, we will be ploughing up the hill.

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak in the debate. I am delighted to see triúr Airí anseo. Tá súil agam go bhfanfaidh siad agus go mbeidh siad ag éisteacht. The issue of climate change is unavoidable. Whether we are discussing agricultural policy, methane emissions or the use of land for forestry, we simply cannot get away from this debate. I am aware that it one of those...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am a member of the Business Committee and we work very hard. We will not accept the blame. Deputy Ryan is also a member of the committee.