Results 11,161-11,180 of 20,768 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am not insisting but I want to address some of the other issues with which the Minister has become obsessed in recent times. Deputy Broughan referred to it.
- Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The cyclist situation must be addressed in terms of the passing distance of 1.3 m.
- Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not covered by the Bill but is covered by the Minister. The demonisation of families in our country in terms of learner drivers also arises. We do not all have a Luas, a DART, buses or the smart technology to get where we like. We have to have respect for the road and to encourage young people. The driver licensing system is a shambles. A person has to do 12 lessons, which cost...
- Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is all relevant. Deputy Broughan was given the liberty to speak about it so I am sure the Ceann Comhairle will give me the liberty too. I am trying to drive home to the Minister the folly of some of the things he is doing. Some of the data he is using are criminal. Deputy Broughan today referred to the inaccuracy and the falsehoods in the reporting of serious accidents and serious...
- Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak. I was here for the Minister's speech. I did not read it but I heard it. I do not know who wrote it. Honestly, hand on heart, the Minister should not have read it out. When is the Minister and the committee Chairman going to admit this is utterly bewildering and that there is utter failure? I refer to the figures that have been produced....
- Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: May I continue? I am not blaming Deputy Butler. She is the Chairman of the committee. I am saying it took forever to get the reply. I have been on to the Chairman several times.
- Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: No, several times. It just proves to me that there is no interest. There is a lethargic effort. The Government is supporting the banks and vulture funds. The Taoiseach was before the finance committee today and refused point blank to say the vulture funds would not get business or anything else. The Government is working for the banks or the big house down the road, 100 yards from the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: That would not patch them.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It should be discussed.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: A constituent of mine, a 14 year old girl who I will refer to as Aoife, is languishing in South Tipperary General Hospital. This is her ninth week waiting for a bed in a special adolescent unit in Cork or anywhere. There are up to six cases like this, I believe, in South Tipperary General Hospital, not only blocking the beds but failing desperately. In early January, she was admitted to...
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am going to pass on an email to the Taoiseach from the relevant person. I appeal to the Taoiseach, and to his sense of understanding and empathy, to try to do something for these people.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It has been raining since July.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It has been raining since July.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Farmers are on the brink.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is not doing them any good.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, welcome the debate and thank I Deputy McConalogue for tabling the motion. I welcome our friends in the Public Gallery who would love to be at home tonight - if it was a fine night - ploughing and sowing and planting seeds. That is what they are good at. When farmers are doing well, Ireland is doing well. Never mind Deputy Bríd Smith talking about cows breaking wind or...
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Rubbish.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is brown at the moment.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He is magaidh faoi.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order.