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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am speaking to the amendment.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am not cutting anyone. I am just standing up for a practice that existed in real Ireland since God's time.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: We can agree on many of these amendments. We all support animal welfare. Farmers and pet owners are custodians of their animals and want to look after them. The notion that some of us are not interested in animal welfare is disturbing because anyone who was reared on a farm or lived in rural Ireland understands that. The rural hare is a very intelligent animal. We all know about the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister would be welcome.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: He is a Messiah. He will clear it up.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Have you any job in Europe for him?

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Send him off to Europe.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Did you meet them?

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I freely paid for my ticket.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: It did not have to do so.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: This week.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: What are we going to get out of it? A hearing. Ráiméis.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Ráiméis.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Live horse and you will get grass.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: It is not a bad menu and they get to have dessert too.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: More like the siege of Castlebar.

Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: We are.

Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I raise an issue that is very important to the people of Tipperary, being part of a proud hurling tradition. The Ceann Comhairle would know all about this seeing as his bean chéile comes from Tipperary. There is huge concern among hurlers and hurley makers -----

Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am talking about the forestry Bill, in regard to the inaction of Coillte and foresters in the matter of the epidemic affecting ash trees. It would be terrible if we had to play an All-Ireland Final against Kilkenny with plastic hurleys.