Results 2,561-2,580 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He ran through the hospital with such indecent haste that he nearly knocked people off the trolleys because he did not wish to meet them or see them. Moreover, Deputy Tom Hayes, who is sitting behind the Minister, and I were to have this famous meeting with him on the conclusion of his visit. However, he jumped into his car and fled.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Cromwell did not run as fast from Tipperary as did the Minister.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: No, he went over the border. He has his stately mansion in Moneygall and his tax-free breaks.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He has a nursing home.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle should add two minutes. Could the Deputy please-----
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: What point of order? The Deputy is wasting time.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Is that all?
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I will stay standing as well. I will never stand for a Fine Gaeler. I will stand up to the Deputy any day of the week. Fine Gael promised everything and delivered nothing. It was the same way back in the 1920s. Deputy Hayes is taking his time.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He ran through it like a dose of flu and left the bugs after him.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is total nonsense. I want to correct that fallacy, which the Deputy probably dreamt in a dream, at the think-in in Castlebar or up Croagh Patrick or wherever else he went. While I do not know where he went, the Deputy should say a few more prayers and should return to meet the people in south Tipperary who are ringing him day and night. Members know this but the Deputy is hiding...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The problem is not with the Government but with the Minister, Deputy Reilly. He does not have time to deal with the health portfolio because he is too busy fighting the wars on his property portfolio.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is the fact. Whether it is a nursing home in Carrick-on-Suir in which he has a share and which, incidentally, HIQA forgot to visit for three years-----
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Today, it was revealed he did not pay the architects who designed it. How could it be right, whether it is a portfolio in Offaly or whether it is all the different portfolios he has in Dublin? He does not have time to look after the ordinary people.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He does not have time to look after the people, only attack the front line services in St. Anthony's, St. Patrick's, South Tipperary General Hospital and many others.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Mental health patients were told they were to go to Nenagh and now they are ending up in Ennis.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister is peddling mistruths - he simply does not have time.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I ask the Taoiseach to relieve the Minister of his duties for the moment in order to allow him to sort out his business affairs and to try to ensure that HIQA is fair so that when it comes to Carrick-on-Suir, it visits every nursing home and does not pick one over another.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: It could not be that my time is up - they interrupted me with their shouting.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister knows all about that.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Why did the Minister not go out to them?