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- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: -----in endowing themselves to Angela and the people over there. The Government is having them over for a party this weekend. It will tell them all about the big deal, they will have a big celebration in Dublin Castle and they will have a great time. However, as I said, the people outside this House who are watching what is happening in here are asking where is the unequivocal write-down...
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Minister Reilly has made a business out of his profession.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Through the Chair, I will ask some questions. What will the impact of this be for the ordinary working man and woman on the street? The Labour Party might answer that as it is supposed to represent them. At one time the old Labour Party party certainly did so.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Ask Social Justice Ireland what are its thoughts about this. Has the Government proofed this against any kind of a measurement?
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: No, it has not. It is in a spin with its spin doctors. It did not know what time it was coming in today. I read where the ECB noted its actions last night, just noted them if you would not mind.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I do not know what kind of note it would take and I would be over there because it does not treat matters in terms of the reality of our position. I have met the troika on three occasions and its members do not treat us in terms of the reality of our position. The Taoiseach said one thing before the election only two years ago and now he is doing the exact opposite. He is confused, and the...
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: That is the reason I was loth to clap this time because when one reads the small print of the deal, one can see it is not a deal. It is a cop-out, Taoiseach. It is a let-down to the Taoiseach, the public representatives sitting behind him, the Government parties and, above all, the Irish people. We had to fight and we had our chance. From all the noises the Taoiseach was making in recent...
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I asked that question of the previous Government. Who was it protecting? Why are the ordinary people being bedevilled? Children born today will have a noose around their necks 25 years from now when they should be graduating from college. The people were promised many things by the Minister, Deputy Quinn, in the election but why should this impact on our children, our grandchildren, our...
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: What would Liam Lynch, any of the founder members or the 1916 people say?
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Sorry, I did not hear you Pat.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Thank you, Minister. It is all great craic. The Minister is the crack in the Labour Party. He is the man who said we make promises in the elections and the people will not mind but they are waiting for you.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They are waiting for you in the long grass. The Deputy might be gone out on pension but the lads will not be out on pension. They know where they will be - facing the music. On a serious note-----
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is so sad that this Government got one of the finest mandates any Government ever got and it reneged totally on it. It has been an utter failure in terms of the people who elected it. That is a sad legacy to leave behind. I accept it inherited a great deal of trouble - it talks about that every day in the House - but it is time to move on. Its members are in charge now. The Minister,...
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is unbelievable. It is time to move on. We are a proud people. We want to pay our way, and we want to pay the debt we owe, but not the massive billions in debt that accrued from money that was borrowed and lent here by rogue bankers, speculators and unsecured bondholders that the Tánaiste said the Government would burn. Where are they now? They are warming their backsides at the...
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: This deal is an abject failure.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: What did the Minister say?
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Will he leave the Commissioner waiting another hour for a meeting?
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: No. He treats everybody with the same disdain, even the Garda Commissioner.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is a sad day for Ireland because we have again burdened our people, and future generations, for God knows how long, with a debt they, their parents or grandparents did not incur. The fat cats, and the regulators both in the EU and here, allowed it to happen - they allowed the money to be shovelled in here when they knew the economy was overheating. They have walked away, scot free, in...
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Deputies can laugh away and talk all they want but I am so disappointed. Having said that, we are used to disappointments from the Taoiseach. We had disappointment yesterday with regard to the Magdalen laundries and we have had it every day since he came into office. We will have a debate next week, which I look forward to. I also look forward to my colleagues making realistic and honest...