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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister, Deputy Howlin, is responsible.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: And mine.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 3. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the Government has not adopted a policy of forcing all 400Kv powerlines underground; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45355/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is a wonder that the Minister did not blame the last Government for this as well but in fairness to him, he did not. As we are led in everything by Mrs. Merkel, I do not know why Ireland cannot adopt the technology that is in place in Europe and now is the preferred option in Europe for high-voltage cables. Why did the Minister allow consideration of overhead pylons when it already has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Bhí tú ag gáire.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I did
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: And the Minister's colleagues.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: That is baloney.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I do not know whose dog the Minister talked about but he is like Murphy's cow with two dry tits, one blind tit and a sup of milk in the other tit. That is all the Minister is like. It is like the promises he made. Who can trust him about anything? He said on a programme recently that one makes those kinds of promises in the heat of an election. He also said that the people of Tipperary...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: He is lying down and letting the big business get on with this. The Labour Party, a socialist party, was founded in my town of Clonmel. The Minister is allowing big business ride roughshod over the whole community; they have him opening shops and offices and getting him up on a JCB to turn a sod to make this look good. The Minister has really fallen into the trappings of power and into...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It has not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is a sham.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: And to hell with the people - to hell or to Connacht.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Of course I would.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister said-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: -----that anyone who did not have a television was a caveman.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister did. I heard him say it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister was talking about televisions and he said that anybody who did not have a television was in a cave.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (24 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I do listen.