Results 21-25 of 25 for construction industry council speaker:Mattie McGrath

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)

Mattie McGrath: ...Minister. I was disgusted, annoyed and shocked when the pension levy was introduced and fought within my party at the time against it. For whom was a U-turn done? It was not done for county council workers on the ground, librarians or ordinary people in classrooms but for senior civil servants. That was a despicable move and I told the former Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan, that he had...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2015)

Mattie McGrath: ...earned. I am not talking about ordinary public servants or front-line staff and their commitment over the years. I am not referring to HSE front-line nurses, community nurses, doctors, caterers, county council workers and ordinary people who have to deliver the services with less and less resources. Senior people get all the money. Former Minister Brian Lenihan introduced a cut for...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: If you are fracking gas, you need to have water to keep things cool. It is all part of the construct that was set up and the separation of duties. I will go back to the gas but I am just saying that we have three reservoirs. There is one in Carrick-on-Suir on the Lingaun river, another in the Ardfinnan regional water scheme and a third in the Galtee region water scheme. They are massive...

Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (23 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...we should know what is needed by now with the amount of sheer blackguarding that went on and the number of rogue companies and businesses that went off and did not pay anybody. Senator Feargal Quinn's Construction Contracts Bill is still foundering in that efforts are still being made to bring it in to protect the many subcontractors. I raised that issue here two and half or three years...

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...to outsource much of the work, which beggars belief. I do not blame the Minister of State but he has to take responsibility for it as do the senior officials in the Department. I salute the staff in the VECs and county councils who dealt with this over the years in each county because they dealt with people whom they knew and who knew them. There was a lot of to and fro. I am not...