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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: You are so biased, Chairman, you cannot help yourself. We have seen that in tweets and public relations statements.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: You are so biased, you cannot help yourself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is a fact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I have one point, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I have one point. Today I had to indicate to the clerk a few times. This is a question about fairness. A number of times today during questioning with our legal adviser, I had to indicate to the clerk and the Chairman about conversations taking place in the room. I could not hear what was being said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It does not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I have to indicate four or five times.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: No, you have not.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: In the wrong place.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste comes from a farming background and there is a commitment in the programme for Government to support our agricultural industry. The banks, especially AIB, are persecuting and not engaging with, farmers and contractors who have serious borrowing issues and are before the courts. They refuse to deal with people like me and other Deputies or any intermediary. They want to...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Countless cases.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Policy.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is stuck in a bog.
- Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I too am delighted to be able to speak on the motion. When I was young we fed the hens presto. When I heard PESCO discussed at the Business Committee I thought the reference was to presto. PESCO is Permanent Structured Cooperation. Nothing is simple or laissez-faireabout this. It is a permanent process. The Government is pulling a fast one. The Ceann Comhairle chairs the Business...
- Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I do and I do my best all the time.
- Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I have no masters, only the man above, thank God. I speak with him every day and he supports and sustains me, thank God. I have no masters in the political hierarchy telling me to do this or that. Mention has been made of the Ministers of State, Deputies Halligan and Finian McGrath. They are like spinning tops now because they have spun so much from the policies they stood for when I...
- Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I do not know what one might call them. We were pretty jumpy two weeks ago and we thought the water pipe had burst and was severed forever but the supply has been mended for the moment. The frost is coming and it could freeze the water and the pipe could easily shatter. We could be out knocking on doors in the few weeks after Christmas but the Government would be happy enough to have...
- Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, but it was Éamon de Valera who founded the party.
- Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Indeed they do. I ask my Fianna Fáil colleagues to scratch their heads and think more deeply about what they are signing up to in supporting the motion. They should be more than just a mudguard for the Fine Gael-led Government. Mudguards collect dirt and often fall off, are driven over and wrecked. We must have proper consultation and a proper debate on this proposal. A previous...