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- Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Public expenditure and reform is the Minister's own area. I appeal to him-----
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the reform when we see the shambolic way the House has been treated over the past 24 hours? It is disgraceful.
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I want a reply. It was shambolic.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I too support these amendments. Both the language we use and the efforts made by Deputy Tóibín to enhance and strengthen the protection for the unborn are vital. I hope the Minister will see his way to accepting these amendments.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 14:In page 6, line 8, after "treatment" to insert the following:", it excludes any procedure done with the intention of killing a human person, whether born or unborn".There is a fundamental right to life in the Constitution and in our intentions we all claim to be pro-life. I said this morning during Leaders' Questions that we were all doing our best in this situation...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am disappointed by what the Minister said. It seems that no amendments except those tabled by the Government parties will be accepted. We are all here with goodwill trying to make the best that we can of the Bill. I, too, am concerned about how we sustain the life of the unborn child in the womb and ensure the foetus is not damaged by any procedure. We are not going to be in every...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I refer to amendments Nos. 22 and 27. The kernel of the issue is here. There are significant concerns about it. Amendment No. 22 seeks to insert:" "viable", in relation to a pregnancy, means a foetus or embryo that is, or would be expected to be, capable of surviving independently outside the womb by reason of its gestational age;".On amendment No. 27, on termination, there is no time...
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Architectural Heritage (11 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 141. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to reintroduce a grant scheme for the restoration of listed buildings throughout the country; the options that are available to those who own listed buildings and who cannot afford to restore same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33983/13]
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: As we move towards the summer recess it is appropriate to raise one final time with the Taoiseach some of the key concerns I have put to him on the floor of the House but which have failed to receive any kind of meaningful response. Over the course of this Dáil session I have tried to engage with the Taoiseach on a number of extremely important issues such as the plight of the Omagh...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I know it is not. I am coming to the question.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I thought you said I had two minutes, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am putting a question.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: If you will allow me, a Cheann Comhairle, I am making the point that I failed to get answers to certain questions.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: You are taking up my time now, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Will I get some time back for the interruption? Instead of promised change and new politics, a reduction in quangos and a five-point plan, all we received were broken promises. It is the same old politics, the same quangos with a few new ones and a Government that has the nerve to award itself an A grade for a job well done. We have a raft of extra taxes, less money in people's pockets and...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach should look in the mirror when he talks about my ranting. We should get a big mirror and place it there for him. He rants, but no one believes him. I do not know whether the Minister, Deputy Noonan, wants to pinch him to bring him back to reality, but I do not believe him. Like all of the Taoiseach's other replies, that was an exercise in denial and an evasion over the real...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I wonder whether the Taoiseach remembers the remarkable disability campaigner, Joanna Jordan, who has accused him of back-tracking on his personal promise-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: This is a fact. The truth is bitter.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I did not say it was.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I will come to my question. I have two minutes, as the Ceann Comhairle pointed out-----