Results 4,181-4,200 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The legislation is the Children First Bill.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: He has - or the new Whip. The Minister said earlier that I was talking nonsense - how dare he.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: He should go back and talk to the farmers in Wexford and they will tell him what nonsense is.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is not silly.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Government is doing nothing.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I have asked the question, but the Minister is interrupting. I asked about the Children First Bill.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I also ask about the Central Bank (consolidation) Bill given that there are receivers up and down the country. I met approximately 50 people protesting outside a receiver's premises on St. Stephen's Green-----
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: -----about the behaviour of banks and receivers which are carrying on outside the law in many cases.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They are destroying good businesses.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I do not want a debate. I want to know when the Bill will come in.
- Topical Issue Debate: Food Safety Standards Regulation (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Topical Issue Debate: FÁS Local Training Initiatives Expenditure (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this important issue. I feel I am repeating my words because on 27 September 2012, I raised the same questions. There may have been a different context because it related to workers getting paid proper redundancy, but I referred to the ongoing scandal of the abandoned hostel project in Tipperary town. I gather Pobal, FÁS and...
- Topical Issue Debate: FÁS Local Training Initiatives Expenditure (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I understand the Minister's last comments. I would not expect him to do anything that might upset the investigation. If the Minister of State has any respect for me or for his position, however, he would not come in here and tell me three and half years later what is happening. FÁS is well aware of what went on, FÁS participants have testified to officials about how their names...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Tá súil agam go mbeidh an Cathaoirleach ann maidin amárach nuair a bheidh mé ar Leaders' Questions. Deputy Broughan is a great man to keep order and I apologise for whispering to my colleague when Deputy Fleming was speaking. He would be a great man for Leaders' Questions and would keep order on the Government side while I was trying to make my points against the...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Táim ag teacht ar ais so fan cúpla nóiméad. I am coming back to it, although I am going the circuitous route. I am elected to the Dáil like everyone else for the time being and I cannot understand the charade that is going on in this country and how people have plundered it and walk free. If I mislead my accountant it is basic, naked, simple fraud and I can be...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Are you sure?
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat. I thought I did something else wrong but I thank God I am spared this time. The non-voted expenditure also consists of expenditure on share subscriptions to State bodies, judicial salaries and pensions, and with which I have no difficulty at all, salaries and pensions of Uachtarán na hÉireann. We have a good Uachtarán na hÉireann and I respect him....
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Of course.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Leave the Minister of State off.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, of course I would.