Results 19,741-19,760 of 20,825 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Question 377: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment and area based payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; the reason for the delay; the measures he will take to ensure that this payment will be made prior to Christmas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39627/11]
- Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Question 423: To ask the Minister for Health the funding and-or grant aid options available to the south Tipperary hospice group to enable it to continue the most valuable work it does for sick persons in their hour of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39629/11]
- Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Question 455: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding national lottery funding for groups providing health care services; the funding or grant aid options that are available to hospice groups that carry out such work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39633/11]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Question 456: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will approve home help for persons (details supplied) in County Laois who were assessed by the local public health nurse as a high priority; if the HSE will take responsibility should an incident occur to the person in question should the HSE continue to refuse home help; if he will respond to a letter sent to him...
- Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Question 520: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the condition of the country's roads in particular rural county roads that are being neglected by local authorities; his plan to ensure that these roads are not further neglected; his further views that the long-term neglect of these roads will lead to increased cost to him and local authorities and have a...
- Rural Areas: Motion (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, and wish her well after her week long sojourn. I look forward to travelling to the east coast with her next week or the week after. This is an excellent motion and it cuts to the nub of the matter. The motion "condemns the Government for introducing a series of budgetary measures that discriminate against...
- Rural Areas: Motion (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Perhaps I will but we at one on this issue. It is an outrageous attack on ordinary people, including the poor, the working class and the new poor.
- Rural Areas: Motion (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: It is devastating blow and the Government Members can heckle all they want. Some of them were not here last time but many of them were condemning everything out of hand.
- Rural Areas: Motion (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I was of course. I am glad to be sitting here again and I hope to be back on the other side some other time. I do not know if the Members opposite will be coming back because the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources recently told us that the last election was an extraordinary event. I told him that the next election will be even more extraordinary.
- Rural Areas: Motion (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: In regard to attacks on disadvantaged areas and farm assist, farming will get us out of the recession but the poorest areas have been hit hardest. The IFA's lobbying paid off for the strong Fine Gael farmers. There is nobody on the Labour Party benches. I could call them a name used 50 years ago but we all know what I mean. I will not speak about disability cuts because, thankfully, they...
- Rural Areas: Motion (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: ----- brought it back in again as a simple way to save a few million euro. They were not thinking about people. We will only have memories of Garda stations after the Government has closed them. We can show pictures to our children so they can see what we used to have in rural areas. The Minister for Education and Skills has a death wish for small schools. They are the best schools we ever...
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: That is a false statement. Where are the Government Members?
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: It is a false statement.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: There was some con last February. It was the con of all cons.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: He is not far away.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: We had that before.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: It was an auction. You wanted 50% at the time. The Minister will remember the auction in 1977.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: You wanted 50%.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: He used to be.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: He is losing touch.