Results 9,841-9,860 of 20,768 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Special Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs meeting with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence and the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP, European Parliament Brexit Co-ordinator (21 Sep 2017) Mattie McGrath: Cuirim fáilte roimh Mr. Verhofstadt anseo inniu and I thank him for his time. He visited the Border yesterday and I hope all the cows will be as quiet as those he met in Monaghan. He said we needed to sort out and clean up our banking but we left it a bit late in the day for that. We did not get a lot of assistance when we had the crash and we had to sign up to some very stiff...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Special Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs meeting with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence and the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP, European Parliament Brexit Co-ordinator (21 Sep 2017) Mattie McGrath: Cuirim fáilte roimh Mr. Verhofstadt anseo inniu and I thank him for his time. He visited the Border yesterday and I hope all the cows will be as quiet as those he met in Monaghan. He said we needed to sort out and clean up our banking but we left it a bit late in the day for that. We did not get a lot of assistance when we had the crash and we had to sign up to some very stiff...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I thought the Taoiseach was a practitioner of politics.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I thought he was on the pitch.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Getting up early in the morning.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: He missed the flight.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: During the programme for Government talks, we and the Rural Independent Group fought hard to get the Government to address regional imbalances in economic activity. What is happening in this area? A recent EUROSTAT report states that over 50% of all economic activity in Ireland is now based in Dublin, the highest rate in any European country. This is a bad development. Dublin cannot cope...
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: That is not the reality. That is a dream: it is a con job.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is only through JobBridge and Turas Nua.
- UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, am happy to speak on this very important issue. We had our guest speaker here last week to address Members of both Houses in this Chamber at a meeting chaired by the Ceann Comhairle and the Cathaoirleach of the Seanad. We all welcome the Taoiseach's request to Prime Minister May that the UK urgently clarify what approach it is seeking to adopt regarding Northern Ireland. It is...
- UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I put the question to him and asked about the attitude of senior Commission people when the UK decided to have its vote which was very hostile, derogatory, threatening and intimidating. We went on to say last week that we had gotten a few little wallops, as the former Taoiseach said one time. I said it was more like a kick he got. He sustained that wallop. Tá sé imithe anois....
- UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I propose the adjournment of the debate.
- UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The lights have gone out while recording is going on.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Trade Union Membership (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who had a facility for a deduction at source of the payment of membership subscriptions to a union (details supplied) in place on 1 January 2017 in voluntary secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40312/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Trade Union Membership (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who had a facility for a deduction at source of the payment of membership subscriptions to a union (details supplied) in place on 1 January 2017 in community schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40313/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Trade Union Membership (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who had a facility for a deduction at source of the payment of membership subscriptions to a union (details supplied) in place on 1 January 2017 in comprehensive schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40314/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Trade Union Membership (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who had a facility for a deduction at source of the payment of membership subscriptions to a union (details supplied) in place on 1 January 2017 in voluntary secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40315/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Trade Union Membership (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who had a facility for a deduction at source of the payment of membership subscriptions to a union (details supplied) in place on 1 January 2017 in community schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40316/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Trade Union Membership (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who had a facility for a deduction at source of the payment of membership subscriptions to a union (details supplied) in place on 1 January 2017 in comprehensive schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40317/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Trade Union Membership (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who had a facility for a deduction at source of the payment of membership subscriptions to a union (details supplied) in place on 1 July 2017 in voluntary secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40318/17]