Results 11,061-11,080 of 20,768 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is up to the Business Committee.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is up to the Business Committee.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: One day at a time-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, I reject any assessment that as rural Independents or any other group, we are anti-democratic. We are not. We are elected by the people, democratic and entitled to do what we want to do. The programme for Government commits to a review of the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act 1962 and the preparation of amendments to it. Where is this legislation? I...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: What about "three strikes and you are out"?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: A hundred times.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: How often?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the Bill?
- Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Could the Minister of State not write a note to him?
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, welcome that we have commenced the process of ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which we first committed to ratify in 2007 when the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, was on this side of the House. I take this opportunity to commend the disability groups and, in particular, Senator John Dolan, on the work they have done over...
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on Northern Ireland. It is fair to say that it is only since the onset of Brexit and the reality of what that will mean for Ireland has the position and role of the North started to receive the kind of sustained political attention it deserves and needs. We are all only too aware of the complex nature of the position in which we find ourselves. Thanks in part to our...
- An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, please.
- An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I would like to get a copy of the speech. I have asked but the Minister's speech does not seem to be available.
- An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: When?
- An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I do not have it.
- An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to be able to speak on the Bill. I have many concerns about its very rushed nature, which I will address in my remarks. The manner in which the Government has dealt with this referendum Bill has been nothing short of disgraceful. No rationale has been offered as to why the entire process has had to lead to a mad rush towards 25 May as the date of the proposed referendum that...
- An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: If the Minister decides to proceed with the plan to introduce legislation, it will be a case of him doing so while knowing with clear certainty that it will be practically impossible to implement, given the scale of opposition to it by GPs. I am sure they do not do this lightly. They do so with the best of consciences. They have a Hippocratic oath to look after people and mind them, so...
- An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: -----banners and lines of gardaí trying to keep people away from those marching. We do not interrupt marches others want to have. I welcome yesterday's march as well. We are in a democratic country but that is the kind of selective democracy that others want with no respect for the unborn baby at all. We were talking about International Women's Day and women's rights but there is no...