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- Topical Issues: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: What the Minister is saying is not true.
- Topical Issues: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The staff are being blamed again.
- Topical Issues: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister for that.
- Topical Issues: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister was blaming them a minute ago.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to be able to ask some questions in this debate. Why was the entire business of the Dáil last week and most of its business this week devoted to a back-slapping exercise? There is nothing worse than listening to people who feel it is necessary to tell us how good they are. People will tell the Government parties how good they are when their candidates knock on doors in...
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The person concerned is now the chairman of EirGrid and was formerly a senior officer in An Bord Pleanála who were examining the EirGrid proposals. This charade stinks from the high heavens.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The whole charade stinks from the high heavens. We have been told we need what is proposed. I met this morning with EirGrid. We are being told one day by it that the energy will be for export and another day that it will service my constituents in Clonmel and I should not be opposed to it. We have been also told that to underground the lines would be nine times more costly. We are now...
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State told us she had done so.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: On the Minister of State be the lie. I will get the minutes of the meeting for her.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State told us that.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State told us she did.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is in such a spin she does not remember what she did two years ago.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State told us that she had to pinch the patient to wake him.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, you did.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The record will show that the Minister of State did say that. Can I continue?
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State does not even believe her own propaganda. The Minister of State told us that.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I will not withdraw what I said because that is what the Minister of State told us, unless she is telling me now that she told us a lie.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am on my feet. I understand I have the floor. The Minister of State will have time to reply.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State told us that she had pinched a patient to wake him.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: No. Which reply am I to believe, the one given here or the one previously given?