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Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Kicking the can down the road.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: He is doing well.

Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I advise them on more than that.

Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach will not be able to see Angela.

Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Under the strategic infrastructure Bill, I asked several times before the recess about the disappointing weather conditions we had all year, particularly since the spring, and the damage that has been done to crops for farmers. When we have a flood in a small area, a special committee meets to deal with the issue. This is a huge issue that affects the rural population that is dependent on...

Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: They had huge losses though.

Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: So has South Tipperary.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputies Kelleher and Dooley for allowing me to share time this evening to speak on this motion, which I support wholeheartedly. Perhaps unlike the previous two speakers, who bear no animosity towards the Minister - neither do I - I have an issue with his handling of the HSE and the public, especially the underprivileged and those who are sick. Above all people in the world, the...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: ----- who has been trained and has taken the Hippocratic oath to protect people, must look into his conscience, if he has one, to see the pain, fear and trauma that is being inflicted on people. I refer to some who are in the services, others who cannot get in and in particular, to the elderly and the infirm. I also refer to the sickness that is being dispelled, with all the different kites...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: They do not trust James Reilly.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: They gave up trusting the Chief Whip a long time ago. Why do they not trust James Reilly?

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I apologise. I of course refer to the Minister, Deputy Reilly. Many of his backbench colleagues are sitting in the Chamber this evening to support him but many of them have told me quietly that he is new in the job, is not used to government and has only been in politics for a few years.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I refer to when he undermines his own Ministers of State. Members had a discussion today on the Order of Business about how he will not delegate power to his own junior Ministers.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: What can one call him but a bully?

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: In my classroom, that was called being a bully.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Name who? They are all there.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Kehoe as well. I met a lot of people from County Wexford in a different country last week and they named him as well.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister promised so much.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: He came to Clonmel - I know he was thinking of south Tipperary.