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- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister is peddling mistruths - he simply does not have time.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I ask the Taoiseach to relieve the Minister of his duties for the moment in order to allow him to sort out his business affairs and to try to ensure that HIQA is fair so that when it comes to Carrick-on-Suir, it visits every nursing home and does not pick one over another.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: It could not be that my time is up - they interrupted me with their shouting.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputies Kelleher and Dooley for allowing me to share time this evening to speak on this motion, which I support wholeheartedly. Perhaps unlike the previous two speakers, who bear no animosity towards the Minister - neither do I - I have an issue with his handling of the HSE and the public, especially the underprivileged and those who are sick. Above all people in the world, the...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: ----- who has been trained and has taken the Hippocratic oath to protect people, must look into his conscience, if he has one, to see the pain, fear and trauma that is being inflicted on people. I refer to some who are in the services, others who cannot get in and in particular, to the elderly and the infirm. I also refer to the sickness that is being dispelled, with all the different kites...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: They do not trust James Reilly.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: They gave up trusting the Chief Whip a long time ago. Why do they not trust James Reilly?
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I apologise. I of course refer to the Minister, Deputy Reilly. Many of his backbench colleagues are sitting in the Chamber this evening to support him but many of them have told me quietly that he is new in the job, is not used to government and has only been in politics for a few years.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I refer to when he undermines his own Ministers of State. Members had a discussion today on the Order of Business about how he will not delegate power to his own junior Ministers.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: What can one call him but a bully?
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: In my classroom, that was called being a bully.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Name who? They are all there.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Kehoe as well. I met a lot of people from County Wexford in a different country last week and they named him as well.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister promised so much.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He came to Clonmel - I know he was thinking of south Tipperary.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He ran through the hospital with such indecent haste that he nearly knocked people off the trolleys because he did not wish to meet them or see them. Moreover, Deputy Tom Hayes, who is sitting behind the Minister, and I were to have this famous meeting with him on the conclusion of his visit. However, he jumped into his car and fled.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Cromwell did not run as fast from Tipperary as did the Minister.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: No, he went over the border. He has his stately mansion in Moneygall and his tax-free breaks.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He has a nursing home.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle should add two minutes. Could the Deputy please-----