Results 261-280 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputies opposite sought more pay all along the way in recent budgets. The Deputies opposite sought to ensure that people got more pay, more quangos and more people serving on boards.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Mattie McGrath: All they wanted was their own people serving on boards.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Mattie McGrath: We will see what their commitments are. I will not be lectured by some of my colleagues across the House.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome the change in regard to ministerial cars and other such changes. We have to tackle the lard. We went after the minimum wage which I do not believe was right but we must tackle the waste, bring down the maximum wage and enforce the provision in that respect religiously.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak to the Bill. I welcome the Minister and thank him for his forbearance and engagement with me and many other stakeholders in recent weeks and months. I am pleased to note that older people are fully protected and will continue to receive, at current levels, the State pension and other allowances, including free telephone, television licence and home care packages. In...
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)
Mattie McGrath: That balance must be readdressed. I did not interrupt the Deputy who will know my views on this from our committee work. The balance must be fair and there must be incentives for people to go to work. We must first create an environment where people can work. The half-rate carer's allowance will continue to be paid to those who are full-time carers. The House can see that I wear the badge...
- Written Answers — Foreign Investigations: Foreign Investigations (9 Dec 2010)
Mattie McGrath: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is satisfied with the progress of the investigation undertaken into the death of an Irish citizen (details supplied) in Botswana; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46687/10]
- Written Answers — Foreign Investigations: Foreign Investigations (14 Dec 2010)
Mattie McGrath: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he intends to take to require the Botswana Government to act upon a report (details supplied) and bring to justice those who murdered an Irish citizen. [47234/10]
- Written Answers — Foreign Investigations: Foreign Investigations (14 Dec 2010)
Mattie McGrath: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he will now take with the Botswana authorities to ensure a meeting (details supplied) takes place as a matter of urgency. [47235/10]
- Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2010)
Mattie McGrath: Question 233: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the legislation or statute which allows the Labour Court to support the 11 unregistered joint industrial councils for the electrical contracting industry and the legislation or statute that allows these JICs to speak for an entire industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47581/10]
- Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2010)
Mattie McGrath: Question 234: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the legislation or statute that allows the Labour Court to provide a chairman and secretary at the taxpayer's expense to an unregistered joint industrial council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47582/10]
- Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2010)
Mattie McGrath: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if agreements made at unregistered joint industrial councils are not legally binding for the entire industry but apply only to the parties represented by the JIC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47584/10]
- Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (12 Jan 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Question 805: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timeline on the introduction of broadband to the Ballyporeen area of south Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48285/10]
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Jan 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on Second Stage of the Bill. I welcome the Minister and I hope he is listening and will engage with all sides of the House before the Bill is rushed through or given a swift passage through the House. This legislation proposes to open the Irish postal market to free competition. This may be regarded as a wonderful thing but, unfortunately, we...
- Health Services (13 Jan 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to raise this important issue for south County Tipperary on the Adjournment. I am glad that my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, is present. I am deeply concerned about the HSE's plans for the Cluain Arann welfare home in Tipperary town. This home caters for 19 individuals who the HSE is planning to relocate without appropriate consultation with...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes (19 Jan 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Fethard and Burncourt water schemes have been on the political agenda since 1979. In the case of Burncourt, substantial funding was approved in 1988 and funding has also been approved for the Fethard scheme. I represent the people of south Tipperary, who are sick, sore and tired of promises from me and other politicians that these schemes are at an advanced stage. Some years ago, the...
- Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy might get better value in Dunnes Stores himself.
- Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I compliment Deputy Edward O'Keeffe, who is from a neighbouring constituency, and all Members who are taking the opportunity to retire. I thank them for their public service. The legislation being discussed is most important. I believe from the bottom of my heart that it is being rushed through the Houses with indecent haste. I have sat through so many debates in recent months and years in...
- Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The amount involved was not â¬85 billion. By my simple arithmetic, we will need to invest â¬17.5 billion of our National Pensions Reserve Fund, NPRF, in the bottomless pit that is the banks. It is a bad deal. It was negotiated by the mandarins and the Minister, not a business person. Had a business person advised them, for example, had Albert Reynolds back when he was a Deputy or...
- Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I did not say I would.