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

Mattie McGrath: He said it.

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

Mattie McGrath: Yes, I believe it.

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

Mattie McGrath: He told me.

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

Mattie McGrath: No, I will not.

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

Mattie McGrath: He told me to my face.

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

Mattie McGrath: He told me to my face.

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

Mattie McGrath: He made it in a jocose way but it is a funny joke when it comes from Phil.

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

Mattie McGrath: I am not doing that.

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

Mattie McGrath: I said it was said in a jocose way but it will be a different joke tomorrow. It is all a joke as far as the Minister is concerned. As was correctly said by the speaker before the Minister, he was kept hidden for three weeks during the referendum campaign, as was the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter.

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

Mattie McGrath: I am trying to discuss the planning, a Cheann Comhairle, but it was very hard to listen to that diatribe for the last five minutes. It distracts one completely from what one wishes to say. One need go no further than Dungarvan to see who was involved in the planning scandal. It is down the road from the Minister. He need go no further than the Moriarty tribunal report to see what happened....

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

Mattie McGrath: The Ministers can spin it whatever way they wish but they were initiated. They can ask his colleague, Eamon Ryan. Mr. Gormley has retired from politics and is not here to defend himself. Big Phil arrived in and told the lads in Carlow-Kilkenny: "Don't worry. We will put the foot down on them and make sure there will be no more about that. That is okay in other counties but it cannot...

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

Mattie McGrath: This is a fact. This is what the Minister is doing.

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

Mattie McGrath: He is like a train or a steamroller that cannot be stopped. A sum of €1 million can go into Waterford city instead of offices for Kilkenny County Council.

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

Mattie McGrath: It is in County Kilkenny. I accept that. I know my geography. It is hanging into Waterford. If there was any type of tremor, it would fall into it. The Minister knows that as well as I do. However, that is the way he wishes to behave.

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

Mattie McGrath: As I have said in respect of the Mahon tribunal and others, they are there for the Government to act on. In the same way, it could not make time available this week to discuss another issue of the House, which the Ceann Comhairle had rightly rejected under his own Standing Order. I believe the Government could have given time, had it so wished but it might not suit it because things-----

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

Mattie McGrath: It relates to the cavalier way in which the Minister addressed the motion tabled by Deputy Niall Collins, whom I compliment on tabling this motion. To take a lecture from the Minister, Deputy Hogan-----

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

Mattie McGrath: As the Deputy does not know what he is a member of, bí ciúin.

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

Mattie McGrath: He did.

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

Mattie McGrath: It is too narrow.

Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (13 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will bring forward legislation to prevent the rehiring of retired public servants who have taken a gratuity and who have pensions, which was promised in the Programme for Government; the reason for the delay in bringing forward such legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26234/12]