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- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Road Network (20 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money that has been spent on the purchase of land for future roads projects in every county council in the south east region each year for the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13704/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Traffic Legislation (20 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will clarify the advice given on the way in which blue flashing lights should be used on vehicles by the Civil Defence when attending to emergency events on motorways; if he will further clarify regarding the implementation of the Road Traffic Act 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13803/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (20 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Health the number of applicants awaiting approval for the fair deal scheme in County Tipperary; of these applicants, the number currently in acute beds in hospital; the number of applicants waiting more than one month for approval for the scheme from the time of application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14147/13]
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to continue in the same vein because the people are bewildered and are becoming more so by the hour. After all of the Government's bluster, reports and examinations, eight times fewer people will be exempt from the property tax this year. I can only speak for south Tipperary, where none of the unfinished estates has been completed. We did not get enough money from the Government...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am discussing the topic of the Government's recklessness and uncaring attitude and I am referring to the Labour Party in particular.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The year 1913 was the year of the Lock-out and 2013 will be the year of the great kick out. That is what the Government is doing - putting people out of their homes - and it should be ashamed. I read an article in a newspaper today which detailed how a couple were locked into their home in Dublin, near the Minister's house. A bunch of heavies boarded up the house with galvanised steel...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: When is the Minister going to stand up for the people he promised to defend? There is no point in blaming everybody else, including developers-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: There are people in negative equity now. There are people who need a second car. I need a second car, as do many in my constituency-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: When is the Minister going to look after the ordinary people and stop putting them into penury? Will he allow them to have their second car to bring their children to school or does he want their children to remain uneducated?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am merely trying to explain the situation. We all accept we must try to get out of the abyss. That is what we were told we were doing on the night we voted for the bank guarantee, but how much worse would the abyss have been? That is why I mentioned Cyprus and the uncaring attitude of this Government, which holds the Presidency of Europe at the moment. The Government does not care about...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: When is the Minister going to act on the mandate that he got from the people of this country? When is he going to fulfil the promises he made to look after the ordinary people, to burn the bondholders and to cut the obscene wages of former politicians and bankers, as well as serving bankers, as we found out this week? When is he going to live up to his reputation for being a hard man? I...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: There is every comparison because it involves robbing ordinary people.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is a funny way of doing it.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister made much of the jobs plan but it is over two years since a big construction company, Pierse Construction, went into liquidation in Dublin, leaving 500 subcontractors affected. Many hundreds of people have been affected since. Where is the Construction Contracts Bill? Much good work was done by the last Government, Senator Feargal Quinn and many others, and people are...
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I call Mr. Richie Boucher "Richie Voucher" as he likes to spend money.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: There must be some meaningful way of correcting this as all the talk in the world will not do it.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Some work must be done.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: We cannot ignore it forever and a day.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: These people are laughing all the way to the bank.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy knows all about the banks, including Anglo.