Results 2,001-2,020 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: A Cheann Comhairle, it is a completely different Bill.
- Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Ceann Comhairle will not let us speak any other way.
- Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Maith an fear.
- Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach should be fair.
- Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Bille nua.
- Garda Stations (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: With no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, I am disappointed the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, is not in the Chamber to take this matter. He was present in the House for the Order of Business and cannot be too far away. Clonmel Garda station is the largest station in the Tipperary division and deals with a large population. It is possibly one of the...
- Garda Stations (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: We can cut to the chase here. I was involved in trying to identify sites with the previous Administration and the OPW. I was disappointed when the Taoiseach decided to combine the defence and justice portfolios. I felt that the Department of Defence was entitled to its own Minister. Surely there must be some logic to it. We were promised Government reform. Clonmel should receive some...
- Garda Stations (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I accept that.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy should stand up and give out.
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: They need to cut turf.
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, am delighted to speak on this motion, in the limited time available to me. I am really disappointed in the response from the Government. I quote from a speech the Taoiseach made some years ago. He stated: "I am disappointed that Deputy Cowen does not have an initiative with regard to the mix of excise duties and VAT to ensure they are not used as a further battering ram against the...
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State should know better because he is a businessman. He is codding the people and is on a hiding to nothing. The Government wants to stop people cutting turf; it wants to break the resolve of people in this country to fend for themselves and keep the last bit of decency and respect for themselves.
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I did, but now I am talking about the Minister of State and his party. When they were over here they knew everything. I have an e-mail from a person in South Tipperary, a haulier, who states, "We are currently purchasing 33,000 litres of diesel in Belgium and 19,000 in Luxembourg per month". Imagine that. Why? The reason is the following difference in prices: 7 cent difference between...
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: They were nothing short of lies.
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He spoke of what he was going to do. I am speaking politically.
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: They were political lies the Minister of State told, about what the Government was going to do. Government parties are really driving the resolve-----
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am doing the same to them as was done to me recently, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am making a political charge-----
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: ------about the lies they told the people.
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: It is an absolute disgrace because people are being forced out of business. Stop the lies.
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Apr 2012)
Mattie McGrath: It was meant to be a political charge and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle said that was okay some weeks ago.