Results 19,081-19,100 of 20,822 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is not a point of order. That is another challenge.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: This is not theatrics. The Minister is good at theatrics himself.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am on the Bill. The Minister's point was not a point of order.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: While he welcomed the process of putting a Bill together, the Minister denigrated our abilities. He said we did not have this, that and the other thing. I co-operated with the Bills Office. At the outset today I thanked the office for its co-operation and help. I understood that it would circulate the Bill to the Minister. I am sure it did submit it to the Department.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: If it did not then it is not my fault. I submitted it to the Bills Office, properly ordered and separated in sections. Members of staff in the office were very helpful to me. I understood that they would pass it on but if they did not I cannot apologise for them. I take exception to the Minister-----
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: We did not. We did until the Minister intervened. He is not listening to his backbenchers.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I hope it will be raised at the next parliamentary party meeting.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: We saw from the e-mail to which I referred that it is a major problem for national security and the safety of lives. It is not a question of me being decorative or anything else.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I admit it is a humble effort from me to introduce it as a backbencher with the support of my colleagues. We had a good discussion on the Bill, except for what the Minister said at the outset, to which he returned a second time in making his concluding remarks.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is his form. He spends most days shouting obscenities across the floor under the radar of the Ceann Comhairle who does not even see him.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: You could be in the Chamber some days also, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The remarks are deadly, they are well-aimed, directed and piercing. The Minister should learn a small bit himself. He is longer in this House than I am.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I compliment Deputy Harris and Deputy John Paul Phelan on what they said. I was not aware that they had submitted a similar Bill to the Minister more than a year ago. I am not sure of the date. Why was something not done in that regard?
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is good. That is not a problem. I acknowledge that. I was not sure of the date. I also submitted parliamentary questions to the then Minister, Mr. Dermot Ahern. We did not have Friday sittings then. I acknowledged the Government for having Friday sittings. I did not have that facility during the previous Government. I wished the Government well in its endeavours. The previous...
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: No, my time was taken. I did not start when I was supposed to speak. I have five or six minutes remaining.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I looked at it too. I asked you earlier, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, what was the rush and you said the Minister had to contribute. I said that was fine.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I want my time.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Catherine Murphy referred to the fact that in his day, the then Minister, Mr. Michael McDowell, introduced amendments to a Bill that amounted to five or six times the size of the original Bill. I have no problem with that. I conceded at the outset and during my contribution that I was not totally in charge of everything, nor did I want to be. It is my effort on my behalf with the...
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: They were all part of a publicly tendered process. It was not cash under the table, over the table or on top of the table.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am speaking on the Bill. I thank the community organisation, Muintir na TÃre-----
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister is wasting my time. What point of order does he wish to raise? I will take more time if the Minister stops me speaking.