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- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy is making it worse than what it was. It does not seem like six years when you win it. You think you only missed it for a year or two. It is all about nurturing and kindling the passion, the vision and the enthusiasm. Shopkeepers and the self-employed are asked day in and out for spot prizes for all these fund-raisers. They are the people who need to be supported but it is a...
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: Sorry.
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I am saying that we may find out in years to come that-----
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I did not interrupt other Deputies.
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I am as involved as Deputy Cassells in early childhood education. I established and was chairperson of a naíonra for a number of years. I also have a large family, so I know what I am talking about.
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Cassells is probably embarrassed about some of these measures.
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: On the rejuvenation of rural Ireland, I spoke earlier about the many derelict sites in our towns. There are also derelict sites in our villages. Under a new initiative, the county councils can acquire derelict sites and sell them on. Whatever is done to remove these blights from our landscape must be supported. The post office is the hub of every village and community yet there is...
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I will not take any lecture from Deputy Cassells. I know plenty about child care.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Discussion (12 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I understand how difficult it is to break the logjam and to get houses delivered. There is also a need for the public to have a transparent system. In Tipperary it is very difficult to get a preplanning meeting. The system has tightened and tightened and tightened and the role of the public representative has been completely diminished. It is not that they wanted to interfere but they...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: Following this week's budget, we now have spending of €14.6 billion on our health services. That is a huge increase. It is almost 20% of total spending by this Government of taxpayers' money. We have one of the highest health spending ratios in the OECD but we continue to have some of the worst health outcomes. I acknowledge that there are many excellent outcomes and very good...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I would like the Minister to correct the record. At the Government formation - he was there - we were told there was an overrun of €200 million to €300 million at that time. As he knows, the Minister, Deputy Harris, recently added €500 million. The Minister, Deputy Bruton, needs to correct what he said about it coming in on budget this time. We are looking in the wrong...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: We will not.
- Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I am glad to be able to speak on this motion tonight. It is a bit rich coming from the Labour Party. It was founded in my own town of Clonmel.
- Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: How many ships did Deputy Howlin jump?
- Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: The Labour Party is shipwrecked. It has lost the ship and lost the party.
- Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: Can I continue?
- Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: He cannot take the medicine. The Labour Party could not hold a conference in Clonmel three years ago. It was founded in Clonmel as a party of the people, the ordinary working man. They got into bed with the blue shirts and now we only have the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, over here-----
- Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I am, but I am being interrupted.
- Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I am being interrupted. I am surprised that the Labour Party has the audacity to propose this motion.
- Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I am looking at the Acting Chairman, not at the Minister of State. Tá mé ag feachaint ar an gCathaoirleach. I am speaking through the Chair. Tá mé ag déanamh mo dhícheall. The Labour Party put down this motion having spent five years in Government when FEMPI legislation went through and the Labour Party did not vote for it. Its members blamed others for...