Results 4,161-4,180 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Asthma Programme (14 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the reason implementation of the national asthma programme was not prioritised in the 2013 Health Service Executive Services Plan with more than one person a week dying from asthma and 470,000 people here living with this respiratory disease that is particularly prevalent in children, with one in five Irish children suffering from the disease; and if he...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yesterday the annual national farm survey was released by Teagasc. It shows that farming continues to be highly reliant on direct support payments. The single farm payment continues to be the most important component of direct payments. It comprises 58% of farm income on average, and over 80% of income on cattle farms. These are astonishing figures. Shockingly, it also shows that 26,104...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is the Taoiseach who is talking nonsense, not I. He stated the Minister is very busy. Why would the Taoiseach not appoint a second Minister of State? Of what is the Taoiseach afraid? Promises keep all the backbenchers quiet. The Taoiseach's response to the fodder crisis is disgraceful. He has refused to call together the national infrastructure committee-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: -----on the day when the Farm Contractors of Ireland are outside the gates of this House protesting about the plight of the farming sector. All the waffle in the world, and all the spin, will not put grass on the fields or food on the tables. Shamefully, the Government is neglecting the main industry in this country. Coming from a rural county, the Taoiseach should understand the position...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I made it in the context-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the Minister of State the Taoiseach was going to appoint?
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach has left agriculture without a Minister of State.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They cannot get it in.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister promised a ship a month ago.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Everybody except the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Everybody except the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They have no ship. It is no good to have subsidy.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach cannot tell me.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They need action, not telephone lines.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the ship?
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the ship?
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Coveney is not the captain.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: All except, and in spite of, the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister promised a ship at committee a month ago.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to ask about two Bills. On the Children First Bill, the Government ignored the Supreme Court's decision on the scandalous way in which it misappropriated the money voted by the House last year. The Supreme Court stated that the Government failed to have a discussion on it and I ask when it would do so.