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Leaders' Questions: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: My question is about the Central Bank (consolidation) (No. 2) Bill 2011. I have in my hand a coroner's report following an inquest into a businessman's untimely death. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, is pursuing families and driving them to despair and even death in some cases. It is State terrorism. These are not my words but the words of the county coroner in Tipperary.

Leaders' Questions: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: The Central Bank (consolidation) (No. 2) Bill 2011. There must be some support for families, business people and ordinary working people who are being driven to pure misery.

Leaders' Questions: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: When will it be introduced?

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion, although I will not support it and do not agree with most of it. It offers a very selective reading of history, as does the majority of Deputy Joe Higgins's interventions. The motion suggests that the Catholic Church was against the workers in 1913 when since 1891 it had expressly condemned the misery and wretchedness pressing unjustly on...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: That is a fact, even if Deputy Nulty may not wish to hear it. I support my employees and my record can be judged by everyone, but reason must prevail. Employees in the company to which I refer have abandoned loads and walked away, leaving the company to cover the significant cost of recovering vehicles and causing a great deal of grief to customers. The company does not have recourse to...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on this Bill tonight but I am disappointed that the debate is so rushed. The Bill will probably be guillotined. I have only been given five minutes to speak on it, during which time I am expected to represent the views of the constituents who spoke to me, both for and against abolition of the Seanad. This Government promised reform, change...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Board Recruitment (18 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance the way his Department can stand over the transparency, integrity and expertise of the original board of National Assets Management Agency when only 36 names from a pool of more than 800 applications emerged without any interview, notwithstanding the fact that the Department publically advertised for expressions of interest on the 3 of November 2009; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (18 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on school transport arrangements (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28730/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (18 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way decisions are being made to establish the nearest school for a student under the terms of the post primary school transport scheme when schools are the same distance apart or where there is less than 1 km in distance of a difference; if it is true that google maps is the programme used to establish the distance; the timeframe spent...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Civil Registration Legislation (18 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the authority under which the Registrar General acted to set aside the powers vested by legislation in the Supreme Court of the Land to appoint a Commissioner for Oaths to take any Affidavit, Affirmation, Statutory or other Declaration, Acknowledgment, Examination and Attestation, for the purposes of any Court in this Jurisdiction or for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Qualified Child Increase Payments (18 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 242. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 445 of 11 June 2013, what is the position where the child is normally resident with each parent for an equal amount of time, that is, where a child spends Sunday to Saturday, week on/week off with each parent; the way the child can be considered to be normally resident with one parent over the other in this...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Best wind turbine in the House.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Call in Big Phil.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Big Phil again.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: That has gone long ago.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I want to ask about recent reports of last November. An investigation was set up by the HSE into information that was being disseminated by the Irish Family Planning Association.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: It can be under two pieces of legislation, if you want: the Health Services Executive (Governance) Bill or the so-called Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, whichever you want. The investigation was supposed to be carried out by an official from the HSE. We were told, in answer to a parliamentary question from Deputy Terence Flanagan yesterday, that it was only an audit and that it...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: It is illegal, in fact. The investigation is being stymied. Is it being hidden until we get the so-called Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill passed in the House?

Order of Business (19 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: My question is for the Minister. Is there action?

Order of Business (19 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Is there an investigation? Is there not going to be an audit?