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Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the engagements that he has had with the British Prime Minister following the recent Manchester Arena and London bridge terrorist incidents. [27549/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am delighted to meet the Taoiseach on his first questions here today. The Taoiseach told us about the ambience, furniture and he waxed lyrically about poetry and history. On the serious issue regarding the Manchester Arena attack and the London Bridge attack, did the Taoiseach raise any issues with the British Prime Minister regarding post-Brexit, the borders here and our control of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad the Taoiseach retained the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, in his post. The mobility allowance issue has been dragging along for three or four years. We were promised a review and the Minister of State has met the members of the Rural Independent Group and others on this. Families are suffering hugely as a result of this lousy cut. The Department of Public Expenditure...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is not good enough.

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They are not voting for the left.

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to share time with Deputy Danny Healy-Rae.

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Never mind Deputy Brassil. I am confused, a Cheann Comhairle. There was ruaile buaile here this morning to debate certain matters. Then the Business Committee was summoned and I missed other meetings because I gave an hour to the Business Committee. We agreed a motion for debate about appointments to the Court of Appeal. I then come in here to find it is a different motion altogether. I...

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I was at it. We left it, agreed that Fianna Fáil would be given time to debate a motion about the-----

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, but I am confused. It is like a spinning top. They do not know whether they are on it or when to get off it. This is crazy. I do not know what it is up with them. I know they are sulking because they cannot get to appoint judges but this beats all. It is a pure mystery. What is the point in wasting Dáil time, wasting 30 minutes on the Order of Business, wasting an hour at the...

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not know what it is, uphill or downhill. They are running up the hill every week on the radio, saying, "We are going to call an election", and they go back down the same side again. If they keep running up all the time, they will fall down on everything.

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is not a filibuster. They are the laughing matter, not me.

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is not the wrong speech. I never have speeches. The speech I wanted to make tonight is on an issue that they fought to make time for today, and on which we had a Business Committee meeting-----

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is making a farce of the Dáil and the Business Committee, nothing short of that. They complained they did not have enough time. They have too much time because they have become time wasters in the extreme. I will address the motion. Seán Lemass was mentioned and rightly so. We have benefited from the EU and from foreign direct investment. I am very proud Clonmel has...

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was enacted in the wake of the murder of 29 people by the real IRA in Omagh on 15 August that year. As the former Minister for Justice and Equality said, it was a necessary response to the atrocity and the loss of 29 innocent lives, including a pregnant woman. I have spoken in the past about this with the Minister in his previous role in...

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The recent death of Thomas Power was the direct result of the lack of a full-time cath lab. It was wholly preventable. It is the triumph of bureaucracy over honesty and freedom for patients. The Taoiseach has family connections in Dungarvan. I met them here last week and wish them well. I represent south Tipperary and it is where we are going to go if anything happens. If the cath lab...

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I agree with Deputy Howlin but I believe we must go ahead with the Minister for Justice and Equality's request that the matter be taken this evening, as we always have done in the past.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach is confused.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am well aware of it. I was with Fianna Fáil long enough. I know the way it operates.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I agree that we should have a debate this evening, if possible, and a vote on the matter. It might have suited Deputy Micheál Martin better to have discussed these matters before the formation of the Government, rather than talking about denying us and other Members speaking time. He seems to have become preoccupied with it and took his eye off the ball. However, he is not in a...

Appointment of Members of Government and Ministers of State (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: He is not in the post office anyway.