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- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Good.
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not a red card either.
- Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I will be sharing a few minutes of my time with Deputy Michael Healy-Rae if he arrives.
- Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak briefly about this issue. When the Minister, Deputy Katherine Zappone, published the third interim report of the commission of investigation into the mother and baby homes in December last year, she made it quite clear that the Government had agreed to a request from the commission for an extension of one year to allow it to complete its fact-finding and information...
- Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Excuse me. May I have freedom to address the Chair without interruption, please?
- Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am, but there were mutterings in between also. Perhaps Deputy Anne Rabbitte is on another journey from somewhere else.
- Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak on this motion on behalf of the Rural Independent Group. I compliment Fianna Fáil on putting down this motion. Our motion was submitted for next week on this topic but now we find that it has been disallowed because of repetition. This is so important that every Deputy from rural Ireland has to talk about it. The Minister of State, who lives in the south east,...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Scant regard.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: At the DoE.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Boat check.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Despite what has gone on here today with the national planning framework and broadband last week, the programme for Government is specific in its support for rural Ireland. However, I do not know what is going on in the Cabinet room, especially when I read reports today about the latest proposals of the Minister, Deputy Ross. I see opposite me the Ministers, Deputies Naughten, Flanagan,...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The question is as follows. Where is the rural proofing? What are we trying to do? Criminalise parents and criminalise all the people of rural Ireland? We do not have Luas, buses, DART or all the other things.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Government cannot even get the new Luas across O'Connell Bridge. It does not know what it is doing. Ministers are in a cocoon inside in the Cabinet room.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I do not know what kind of water they are drinking or what medicine they are on, but this is bizarre, daft and unworkable, and an attack on rural Ireland.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Please, come on.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am asking where the Minister, Deputy Flanagan and his colleagues are.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: What about the post offices?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Government could not wait to get rid of post offices.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He looked after the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, too when he had the foreign affairs brief.