Results 16,741-16,760 of 21,019 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is part of the Act that local contractors would be employed.
- Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They are now setting high thresholds that contractors cannot meet. That is Labour's way. I ask whether the Tánaiste will look after those people because they are unemployed businesspeople.
- Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: In respect of the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill, there is no Garda clearance and it is now taking up-----
- Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill. I welcome the Ceann Comhairle back. I am glad to have him back. I hope he had a good time overseas with my colleague.
- Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I know he was and I appreciate that. It is taking four months for community groups to get Garda clearance for participants on community employment schemes and any project in the community. Heretofore, it would only be when someone was working with children but now any participant must get clearance so it is taking four months to get Garda clearance. Something is seriously wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (22 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Not even the Minister, Deputy Shatter.
- Leaders' Questions (22 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: That is allowed, is it?
- Leaders' Questions (22 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: He does not do apologies.
- Leaders' Questions (22 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: No, he has not.
- Leaders' Questions (22 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Abuse.
- Ireland and the Eurozone: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is a pity the Leas-Cheann Comhairle did not get to call me in the last debate but I will forgive him for tonight.
- Ireland and the Eurozone: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I commend Deputy Thomas Pringle on tabling this well-researched and carefully crafted Private Members' motion. Like most Private Members' motions from the Independent group or the Technical Group, there is little interest in it. A recent motion was tabled by Deputy Tom Fleming and during the debate on it, the Minister finished her script seven minutes before the end. She sat down and the...
- Ireland and the Eurozone: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I was in one party and now I am an Independent. The Tánaiste can speak for himself. He is in a spin because he does not know where to stop. We are in an unequal union. We are being mistreated and bullied in Europe for the failures of many aspects of our governance and financial issues. As Deputy Pringle pointed out, the Europeans banks and regulators allowed money to be pumped...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is being bugged.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The listening devices are on the Minister of State's side.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Tá brón orm go bhfuil an Taoiseach imithe. One could be forgiven for believing one is waking up from a very bad dream. We have heard it all before and we are walking around in a haze and a fog. I am sure the Taoiseach must pinch himself most mornings when he wakes up. He must ask if it is true that he is the Taoiseach of the country. He now has his opportunity as the boss in...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I wish Galway no ill will and I hope they will come back from it. Tipperary beat Waterford two years ago and it was the worst thing that ever happened us. A victory like that is not good for anyone. They were out on the field but they had neither design, vision, energy nor enthusiasm. They thought they would change the game play in the second half. What hope have we in the next few...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I agree. I have no expertise in Galway or Connacht football; I am just using it as a comparison. There is no sign of any stability in the banking system. We are drifting. Does the State have sufficient funds to cover the bank guarantee for deposits? I have been informed that there are not sufficient funds. I ask the Minister of State to tell the people the situation. We saw what...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome our guests. Head 11 of the Bill removes freedom of information from the ambit of the proposed Bill. Nobody proposes that individuals' names and addresses be mentioned in any official record keeping yet head 11 goes much further than that. Bearing in mind the seriousness of what this Bill proposes, and the political and cultural struggle with matters of transparency, do the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Courses Availability (21 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of CAO applications for BSC Honours Computing and Creative Multi-Media Courses in Limerick Institute of Technology; the number of these applicants that have applied for LIT Tipperary Clonmel Campus; the direct cost of educating such students in the LIT Tipperary Clonmel Campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24328/13]