Results 10,121-10,140 of 21,015 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am not talking about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am talking about a statement that has been made by Deputy O'Brien that I mesmerised members of the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Chairman does not want to control-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: -----because she is totally biased. I am leaving this charade right now, for today anyway. I am exposing what it is. It has been a total absolute charade, from the start. The Chairman sat at a meeting in England last week again, trying to get people over here to talk about bringing abortion into Ireland in the middle of this committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am making my point that it is a charade and Senator Ruane is part of the charade.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: We can see the charade.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I will leave but I want that record corrected.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: He was in government for five years.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The problem is that there is no legislation.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is promised legislation; it is the programme for Government. It concerns the national children's hospital, its development and the sorry saga whereby the cost is now €1.25 billion. I am glad that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs is here. The national children's hospital was deliberately designed to be-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The question concerns how the hospital was designed to be 10 cm lower in height than 30 m to circumvent sprinkler requirements to avoid having to install a sprinkler system for fires. This is not a claim made by me. I am reporting a claim made by Dublin Fire Brigade. The developers, the board of the national children's hospital and Dublin Fire Brigade spent 12 months discussing this. We...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is not circumventing. It is a national issue. Our children-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Building this hospital is in the programme for Government. The cost has gone from €400 million up to €1.25 billion and now they are keeping below the required height just to avoid putting in safety measures to prevent fire.
- National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on the national planning framework. For many years I have called for a significant re-evaluation of the status currently assigned to the town and environs of Clonmel under the then national spatial strategy. We were ignored. I want to salute the members of Tipperary County Council planning department who engineered a significant review of the 2002-2020 national spatial...
- National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Agus rince.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units that have been moved to build and completed in County Tipperary in each of the years 2012 to 2016. [45538/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I want to ask the Minister of State if he can tell us the number of social housing units that were planned, designed, commenced and completed in the years 2012 to 2016. It is a bit of a mystery. I would appreciate if the Minister of State could give me some information.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The genie is out of the bottle, I think, if there is no shortage of money. Did I hear the Minister of State right? How many houses did he say were built from 2011 to 2016?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Only 11, in the years 2011 to 2016. This gives the total-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State has been telling us about Rebuilding Ireland and many other projects. The former Minister, Deputy Kelly was too when he was in place. We are sick of announcements. This is the problem. How could we have a homelessness crisis improved if we are not building houses? The local authority built houses from the 1930s to the 1990s and right into the millennium. Nothing at...