Results 3,201-3,220 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I appeal to those opposite to reject the Social Welfare Bill. I also appeal to the Minister to renegotiate the position and to take the money required from the rich and from those earning over €100,000 per year. Carers do a great deal of work and the cut to their respite grant should be reversed. I am proud to wear the badge of the Carer's Association each day. I notice the...
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He will be back.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (11 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the teacher refund scheme will be re-opened in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55092/12]
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this discussion. I bear no ill will towards either the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste or the Minister of State, Deputy Lucinda Creighton, and wish them well in their engagements in the European Union. However, the public has grown weary of the process of Ministers wasting jet fuel travelling elsewhere in Europe. The Government should have put a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Reserve (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He should allow the Minister to reply.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Reserve (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will consider retaining the Reserve Defence Forces centre in the town of Clonmel, County Tipperary in view of the fact that there are two units (details supplied); the way he intends existing members based in the Clonmel centre to be accommodated if they have to travel to barracks in Cork and Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54996/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Reserve (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I could be forgiven for thinking the Minister's reply to my question was the reply to the first question. All the answers from the Minister are the same. I am really disappointed and quite disgusted with the Minister's attitude towards the PDF and the RDF. I question whether it is constitutionally proper for the Minister to be both the Minister for Justice and Equality and also the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Reserve (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: It is. The Minister answered the question and I am replying-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Reserve (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I want to use them. I want to express the disbelief and shock of the people of Tipperary and surrounding districts who have been involved with the RDF over many years. I pay tribute to former members - some of whom are retired and are quite ill - and to current serving members who are being discarded as if they were not fit for purpose or not wanted. Is that the thanks our State...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Reserve (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister is being unfair to the Chair.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, welcome the Taoiseach to the debate and want to take up where Deputy Shane Ross left off. He said the Government had options. Of course it did but, worse, it made so many promises. On entering office, the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and all of their colleagues, including the Ministers of State at the Departments of Finance and Health, Deputies Brian Hayes and Alex White,...
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I would say "Angera" is the right word. I do not know whether the Taoiseach talks in Irish, English or Latin to her, but when I hear that parish priests are writing to Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, it is time for the Taoiseach and his colleagues to wake up and smell the coffee. They should get out of town because the public are coming for them in droves. I wish the Taoiseach well; as he...
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the Labour Party?
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Will the Labour Party be here at 9 p.m?
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: And peace and quiet.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Labour Party made a hundred promises at the last general election.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Labour Party got away with it.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Labour's way or Frankfurt's way.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Labour's way or Frankfurt's way.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Labour's way or Frankfurt's way.