Results 9,501-9,520 of 20,768 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The House is debating the Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017. It seeks for open disclosure by the HSE. That is the basic premise of the Bill, yet up to 500 families have major concerns about their daughters and Gardasil. They are bright, smart and normal people. We have mentioned the savage atrocity across the water, but these girls' lives have been devastated. While I am not saying...
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: No. It is only the Government that takes votes for each other; we do not take things at all.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak on this issue and thank the Minister for Finance and Taoiseach for the briefings provided to Deputies on the establishment of a commission of investigation into the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. I attended two such briefings with officials. I am surprised by the appointment of the named eminent justice to chair the commission of investigation. A question...
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The judge has been appointed and we are discussing his appointment.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am commenting on the suitability of the individual who will head up the commission of investigation. Why bother discussing this if it is a closed shop?
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is if the Leas-Cheann Comhairle seeks to gag me.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, but we are discussing the commission of investigation. The chairman, who will present the report, has been forced off court cases in the High Court and other courts and has been forced to declare issues he did not declare when he was presiding over cases in which he had a vested interest. That is not right. I do not know what will happen. If we are not allowed to debate this motion,...
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I did not say he had a vested interest in this case. I referred to other cases. I referred to previous incarnations and cases of construction companies and CRH, which supplied lots of concrete to people who went into NAMA. I did not refer to this case but to history.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Will we be satisfied with this? I am being gagged here.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I am. I have been told I cannot question the chairman's suitability for the role.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I will not and I am not happy.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 97. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times each of the Cabinet committees has met since the formation of the current Government. [24142/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a grant scheme to assist those on low income and in receipt of Department of Social Protection payments in view of the fact that numerous households in County Tipperary have been transferred to a hard water supply with the associated cost of installing and the upkeep of water softeners; and...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Gender Recognition (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 675. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the research in the area of gender recognition for children that her Department has undertaken; the position regarding the research or consultation process that is being undertaken and if she will name the relevant NGOs or other organisations that are a part of the consultation process; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Policy Reviews (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 676. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the definition of a child that the policy of her Department is guided by; her views on whether such a definition must include the unborn child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24750/17]
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to increase employment levels in the regions and in rural Ireland by more than 100,000 jobs. It took long enough to negotiate the programme. One of the greatest success stories in that regard has been the work of ConnectIreland, which works as part of the Succeed in Ireland programme. However, the draft terms of reference for an...
- Priority Questions: DEIS Status (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the assessment methodology in respect of all schools applying for DEIS status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24778/17]
- Priority Questions: DEIS Status (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the assessment methodology relating to all schools applying for DEIS status.