Results 3,181-3,200 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Transport (Córas Iompair Éireann and Subsidiary Companies Borrowings) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: No, it was just to note that I was confused about what was happening.
- Transport (Córas Iompair Éireann and Subsidiary Companies Borrowings) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I will return to the Bill now.
- Transport (Córas Iompair Éireann and Subsidiary Companies Borrowings) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Reform is what I look forward to seeing and in the context of reform of the CIE group, it has been obliged to confront a difficult economic position. As with most businesses sectors in the State, the current economic environment is very challenging for public transport providers. One is told the primary cause of the problem is the recession, which has caused a fall of more than 20% in...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Admit it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I compliment the Minister with regard to JobBridge, Tús and the community employment, CE, schemes. These have long provided valuable and badly-needed services for elderly and vulnerable people. I sympathise with the Minister in that she is trying to deal with colleagues in government who have no interest in or respect for ordinary people. Fine Gael will never have and interest in or...
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: May I have the floor please, Leas-Cheann Comhairle?
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I reiterate that Fine Gael has never had and never will have respect for ordinary people.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Fine Gael treats them like little peasants. What else could we expect from the Minister of State who has been stung by the reaction to the budget?
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: If Fine Gael and Labour backbenchers have any conscience, they will not pass this Bill.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: They should face the people rather than retreating into hiding and taking down their Facebook pages. They are running away from the people.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Is that decent language? Is the Minister of State allowed to use such language?
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He is full of it himself so I will not ask him to withdraw it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is full of it himself so I will not ask him to withdraw it. I will not mention the word at all. The Minister of State cannot take the heat. If it is too hot in the kitchen, he should get the hell out.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I respect the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, who is trying to do her best for ordinary people. However, she is being bullied by Fine Gael. The Government recently introduced legislation which is designed to protect children's rights, mar dhea. However, what is being done in the Bill before the House is an attack on families, women, children and the very weakest in society....
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: With regard to the attack on child benefit, on families, on the respite grant and on carers-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Dún do bhéal, más é do thoil é. Carers in this country do valuable work and they expect to be supported. These frightened and vulnerable people should not have been obliged to arrive at the gates of the Leinster House today, some of them with their charges in wheelchairs, in order to beg us to embarrass the Government into rowing back on this cut.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Government rowed back on cuts to education last year and I appeal to it to row back on this one. It is taxing the humble bag of coal and funeral hearses. The next thing it will do is tax people's funeral shrouds. Those in government are messers.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: They will not get away with what they are doing. They can run but they cannot hide. Go raibh maith agat.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I have a minute left. I thought my time was up.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat. The carbon tax was increased in the budget and this means the cost of a bag of coal will rise by €1.50 next May. In addition, a bale of briquettes will increase by 50 cent. People are buying single bales of briquettes in order to heat their homes for a day. This shows how badly off they are and the Minister of State and the Minister, Deputy Burton, are aware...