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Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (12 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Question 346: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the ongoing review of the funding of community employment schemes; when this review will be completed; if she will acknowledge that the delay in clarifying the funding situation for community employment schemes is causing difficulties for these schemes in maximising their full potential due to their funding...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (12 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Question 403: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied with the broadband service being provided by three networks in rural areas; if he will acknowledge that a mobile broadband service is insufficient to support businesses in rural Ireland due to its unreliability; his plans to ensure that a fixed line broadband service will be provided in...

Written Answers — Driving Licences: Driving Licences (12 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Question 635: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person that is returning to Ireland to start in a new job with both an Irish and an English provisional driving licence and having completed 40 hours of driving instructions in England all logged cannot use these lessons as part of their requirements for a driving test here; his plans to change this situation and...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. Jobs for the boys.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I recommend Athlone.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: He never does that.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: It is a deliberate distraction.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I too am delighted to speak on this Bill. I know how important foreign direct investment is, and has been over the decades, to our economy. I want to mention my own constituency in this regard, because in south Tipperary and a small part of west Waterford alone there are many foreign-owned companies - mostly American - including Boston Scientific, Merck and Abbott, although we have also had...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: What about Dungarvan?

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I know.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Tá siad ag fanacht.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: He is not here to defend himself.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: It is not half enough time but déanfaidh mé mo dhíchil-----

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: No, he has enough to say too. We have to rebut all those allegations. Even though I am not a member of Fianna Fáil, I hate to hear spurious claims made about a party I was proud to belong to for many years. I sympathise with the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, because she is a reasonable person. Unfortunately, the man beside her is not a reasonable person and has not shown...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Of course I will return to planning. There are also the outrageous charges he made just now.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: We will all be forced to have a basket. I did not say anything that was not nice about the Minister of State. I said she was a decent, hard working Minister, unlike the person beside her-----

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: -----who wishes to bully his way through and who was able to tell me in another part of this House - he can deny it when he is asked elsewhere - that he would make sure the constituency boundaries would be sorted out in such a way that I would not be here. Talk about independence and arrogance.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: You said it.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister said that.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: No, you said it.