Results 5,281-5,300 of 20,735 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Calleary did not do so but I will.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It was in respect of the local elections.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Who is the boss?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach has always stated that it is about creating jobs.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Some 35,000 submissions were received.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: We do not need them.
- Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The publication of the EirGrid Bill has been delayed. We were promised that it would be published in the first session of this year, but now it has been put back. I wonder whether that has anything to do with the quicksand the Government has arrived in - the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte and the Taoiseach are saying one thing - with regard to the whole issue of pylons.
- Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is very important that we have legislation and that we rein in these monsters - not the pylons but the people who are pushing them.
- Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: When are we going to get it?
- Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It was listed for this year. What happened?
- Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I have been told that it was listed for this year.
- Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It was.
- Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: What are they?
- Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am also pleased to have some time to speak on the Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013. The legislation was mooted some time ago and the Government promised, as did the last one, that it would cut back on the number of quangos but it has not succeeded greatly in doing so, no more than the last Government. I have nothing against Forfás. We needed those...
- Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am talking about the previous amalgamation of two Government agencies.
- Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I cannot say off-hand but I am not making it up. I was presented with the facts, which I will get for the Minister of State. It happened during the tenure of the last Government. It do not know if it has arrived at its intended destination yet.
- Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is pertinent to amalgamation.
- Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: My point is that the main provision of the Bill is that primary legislation is necessary to give effect to the decision to integrate Forfás into the Department. I came across this situation before where two agencies whose names elude me - they may come to me before I am finished - were amalgamated. When we inquired about how it was going, we were told that it would be ongoing for some...
- Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am aware of that but the last speaker also referred to them. I have very valued experience of what they did. The last people someone goes to in order to create a job are those agencies. They will be seen as statutory groups where all the hoops have to be gone through to secure planning, etc. They will also be seen as enforcement agencies. IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland have been...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (4 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 106. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the exact status of the Fethard Burncourt water treatment scheme; if he will provide a commitment that work will begin on the project as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4928/14]