Results 11,241-11,260 of 20,768 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the Minister of State, Deputy Ring?
- Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am also happy to speak on this Bill this evening. There are certain technical elements of the Bill that deal with step payments and reform in that area, and these are important. I want to focus on the elements of the proposed legislation that deal with the importance of open disclosure in health care settings. I heard Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy McEntee, speak...
- Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister made clear that this will be applied for only serious offences involving adults. While I agree with some of the sentiments expressed by Deputy Clare Daly regarding not-for-profit organisations, I do not know if such organisations would be up to the task. As a Deputy representing a rural constituency, I believe electronic tagging must be used because, as gardaí have...
- Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I compliment the proposers of this motion. I, too, have had many constituents who were shabbily treated. This redress process is intended to help people who suffered in the past. This organisation, like so many other quangos in quangoland, has a chief executive and a plethora of offices. It is renting new offices and suites of offices. We have to stop this. I discussed the issue of the...
- Priority Questions: DEIS Status (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the assessment methodology in respect of all schools applying for DEIS status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24778/17]
- Priority Questions: DEIS Status (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the assessment methodology relating to all schools applying for DEIS status.
- Priority Questions: DEIS Status (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I do not accept any of that. The Minister spoke about fairness; there is no element of fairness. I called on the Minister to conduct an immediate review of the criteria under which schools are assessed for inclusion in DEIS. I spoke after five schools in Tipperary town along with the Holy Trinity school in Fethard were ruled out. The Minister said that there would be another scheme, but...
- Priority Questions: DEIS Status (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I do not accept that. In Fethard the Holy Trinity national school has been left out. However, in the same town with the same demographics and other indicators the Minister mentioned, the secondary school has it. The feeder school with the young children does not. Therefore, that does not stand up. The five schools in Tipperary town came together. On all the indicators the Minister...
- Priority Questions: DEIS Status (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is all flawed.
- Priority Questions: DEIS Status (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is flawed.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to increase employment levels in the regions and in rural Ireland by more than 100,000 jobs. It took long enough to negotiate the programme. One of the greatest success stories in that regard has been the work of ConnectIreland, which works as part of the Succeed in Ireland programme. However, the draft terms of reference for an...
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak on this issue and thank the Minister for Finance and Taoiseach for the briefings provided to Deputies on the establishment of a commission of investigation into the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. I attended two such briefings with officials. I am surprised by the appointment of the named eminent justice to chair the commission of investigation. A question...
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The judge has been appointed and we are discussing his appointment.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am commenting on the suitability of the individual who will head up the commission of investigation. Why bother discussing this if it is a closed shop?
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is if the Leas-Cheann Comhairle seeks to gag me.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, but we are discussing the commission of investigation. The chairman, who will present the report, has been forced off court cases in the High Court and other courts and has been forced to declare issues he did not declare when he was presiding over cases in which he had a vested interest. That is not right. I do not know what will happen. If we are not allowed to debate this motion,...
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I did not say he had a vested interest in this case. I referred to other cases. I referred to previous incarnations and cases of construction companies and CRH, which supplied lots of concrete to people who went into NAMA. I did not refer to this case but to history.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Will we be satisfied with this? I am being gagged here.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I am. I have been told I cannot question the chairman's suitability for the role.