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Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: All right but I think I am parliamentary enough at this stage. The joint committee recognises that pension recipients deserve to have a feeling of stability and security about their incomes, and urges the introduction of some form of indexation of pension rates. Family carers, women who stayed at home to mind sick children, sick husbands or their in-laws are the hardest hit. It is a mean...

Pre-European Council: Statements (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this matter. I note from the invitation letter of President Donald Tusk that members will be updated on where the EU stands in terms of a political discussion on the external aspects of migration, with a specific focus on the financial measures necessary to stem the flow of illegal migrants from Africa. That is vital but we are late to the table and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not mind waiting until our guests have finished but I want to comment in public session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: All right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I wrote to the Chairman and thank her for the opportunity to speak. I want the Chair to note that I absolutely reject the allegations made against me by Senator Jerry Buttimer in my absence last week, he accused me of glibly quoting what he described as reports from Duke University and suggested that I was doing so in a manner that was dishonest. I want to put it on record that the research...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do my homework properly always. We are going to have more people marched out here and there will be a reasonable debate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Never?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Never?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No, I object. The Chairman opened the committee by saying that people would have to leave. First, I am sorry for elevating Senator Buttimer. That was an omission on my part and I correct the record any time I am wrong. We have checked the records and the words that were used. We have checked the blacks. I had to leave this committee. I was asked by the clerk and the Chair of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, Senator Buttimer has, again glibly, welcomed me back to the committee. I must also leave to speak in the Dáil on European affairs and I have tabled amendments on other issues. Are we going to have this continual Tweeting if we leave the room? It is ridiculous and it does not happen at any other committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I ask the Chair-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I never leave, as a habit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am grateful for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I sat here last week and I did not interact with anyone other than when one of the guests offered me water.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: One cannot sit with one's back to them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have to speak in the Chamber. There are other speakers after me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the witnesses for staying with us. During the last hearings on this issue held by the Oireachtas in 2013, the former Senator, John Crown, asked obstetricians, including the masters of the Rotunda and National Maternity Hospital, if they knew of any instance where doctors were prevented from intervening to save a woman's life because of Ireland's legal ban on abortion, namely, the...