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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I will be very brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I do not want any sideshows. This is terrible. Thankfully, it is public and the public can see the tempers of members and what we have to put up with. I would have thought, if we needed legal advice here in the committee in public, that we could adjourn and get the legal advice in private, and go back again. That is often done in procedural committees.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: But sure, we can do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I oppose the vote on removing Article 40.3.3°. I have always had my suspicions about bias in this committee. The overwhelming vote in favour of removing Article 40.3.3° means the genie is out of the bottle. It is an insult to some of the eminent people who are due to come in and make a presentation to us that we have already decided to do this. We have dismissed some of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I ask the Chair to allow me to speak without interruption. I am depending on her to defend me, not to interrupt. She did not interrupt anybody else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Not while I was here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to the point of equal rights for all people, which applies to both mother and baby. If somebody is elected by the people, whether it is to fix potholes in roads or not, they are entitled to be here. Just because somebody dispenses tablets, or something else, to people it does not mean they have a better right to be here. The people decide and they will decide in a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It went on for an hour.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I understood that we had to get legal advice. Other committees go into private session when they need advice so why could we have not done that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is standard practice.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Government gave strong commitments to support the agricultural industry. What is going on in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and the Road Safety Authority, RSA? Yesterday the stakeholders, including all the farming bodies and agricultural contractors of Ireland, were told out of the blue that the RSA is implementing a new policy whereby any tractor at 40k or above that...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The infamous American bank robber, Willie Sutton, once said: "You can't rob a bank on charm and personality." What the Irish banks have proven, however, is that one can indeed rob the people on charm and personality. I am referring to the latest example of our predatory banks' behaviour with respect to tracker mortgages. I believe it is important that we speak about this not only because...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I think that Oliver Callan will have a field day this weekend when he addresses the Minister's paltry answer. This has gone on for years. We see that the courts do not give protection to the families on these tracker mortgages either and the Central Bank is toothless, useless and totally fruitless. I suppose the banks brought some nice fruitcake in to the Minister for Finance, Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I did that.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Show us the money and legislate.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It was agreed. The issue did come up but it was agreed. What about the staff who have booked holidays? What about all the other staff whose plans have been thrown into disarray just for grandstanding here by Deputy Martin? That is all it is. Grandstanding of the highest order.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I thank all the emergency services that worked so hard and are still working, particularly ESB Networks, the council workers and everybody who dealt with and tried to help, such as the Red Cross, the Garda, and others. However, I have one issue to raise relating to the strategic infrastructure Bill, namely, Uisce Éireann. Uisce Éireann really is unfit for purpose and has been...
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: My question concerns Irish Water's role in disseminating information to us as representatives. It closed down the Oireachtas line at the weekend when everybody else was out trying to help and then gave us misleading-----
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is under the strategic infrastructure Bill.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Irish Water should be brought to account because it is giving out misleading information. I do not want to call it anything stronger but that is what it is. It was telling me that water was back in places when it was not back until several days later. When I asked about some place in Tipperary, it talked about Buttevant in Cork and some place in Kilkenny. It is so serious it is almost...