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- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Now he wants to have his cake and eat it.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He did not have a vote on it either.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Why is it not a point of order?
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Well I believe it is. We cannot have this crying by the Labour Party-----
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: -----when it did more damage to rural Ireland than Cromwell.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It banished town councils. It banished the Leader programme and now it is going around the country holding meetings and trying to regain its popularity.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Jealous of what?
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: You were the Minister for spin and you are still spinning.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: You were not a Minister long enough to do anything.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Excuse me.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am sharing my time with Deputy Danny Healy-Rae. I will take 20 minutes and Deputy Healy-Rae will take ten. I am delighted to be able to speak this evening on the wonderful aims and big announcements. When I opened the national development plan and looked for references to Tipperary, I found just two instances despite it being the sixth largest county in the State. One was on a map of...
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They make public pronouncements.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: One would.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They were not from every county.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: My question is very much on promised legislation. It is on the whole debacle around recruitment to the Citizens' Assembly by the polling company RED C. At the outset, Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, whom I respect, was full of praise of how the people were recruited. However, we have now found huge flaws in the process. One recruiter recruited seven people who were personally known to him. It...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We need an independent evaluation which should not be carried out by RED C, which has already carried one out. In fact, RED C has accepted that 99 citizens could not represent the whole country in any case. That is its own admission. It is a failure. What is the Minister going to do about it?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is a shambles.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I do not fear it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They will have their say.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: This is a stitch-up.