Results 5,201-5,220 of 20,735 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to raise two items. One is the EirGrid Bill, which is promised for this year. Will freedom of information also be applicable to EirGrid? Confusion and misinformation abound throughout the country and we need something to rein EirGrid in as well. Under the road transport (no. 2) Bill the driving licence renewal process is farcical. NDLS, the company that handles this, is not fit...
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: He had to come home to get a driving licence. He washed his licence in his shirt, which can happen to any of us. Dúirt bean liom go ndúirt bean léi go raibh póca ina léine aige.
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: He washed his licence. How can he travel home from his job to get a new licence? It is nonsensical in the extreme.
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Can someone please review this matter? This person is only one of many. A person working abroad has to come home to get his or her licence renewed. It is just farcical.
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: He was told that.
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: What about the EirGrid Bill?
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Next year?
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: We were told it was to be in 2014, but it has now gone back to 2015.
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: My God. The pressure will be piled on; do not worry.
- Private Members' Business - Irish Water: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Phil's cheque book.
- Private Members' Business - Irish Water: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: They are still waiting.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 and response if it is appropriate for the Revenue Commissioners to continue to provide a VAT rates section to their website; if he will confirm that the recipient of the VAT invoice is entitled to an input credit, at a higher rate as this is the amount that Revenue intend to collect form the issuer of the invoice;...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 541. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will amend the relevant legislation in relation to deleting the provision scrapping the €400 contribution which was payable to self-employed members of the Garda Reserve by the Garda Commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1443/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 780. To ask the Minister for Health the reason, contrary to Government policy, medical cards are being reviewed after a period of only six months when it has been clearly stated that this would not occur. [55497/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 916. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the application and renewal of driver licences was withdrawn from local authorities and awarded to the Road Safety Authority; the criteria under which the RSA obtained this contract; the reason the offer by An Post to deliver the service was rejected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55223/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 930. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the exact involvement of a company (details supplied) in County Kildare in the roll out of the new national driver licence service; the submissions the company made to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55503/13]
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: EirGrid will do it.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The tap was turned off.
- Order of Business (16 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Well done, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (16 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: He closed the barracks in Clonmel.