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- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Even a pilot is not safe when he drinks.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Pontius Pilate.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Pontius Pilate.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: That is a scandalous thing to say: it is disgraceful. He should respect the peacekeepers and what they do.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He did not get an answer.
- Other Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 30. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures her Department is taking to support pop-up Gaeltachts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19805/18]
- Other Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I will indeed be brief. Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Ba mhaith liom a rá leis an Teachta Broughan, let the hare sit. I want to ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures her Department is taking to support Pop-up Gaeltachts, and if she will make a statement on the matter.
- Other Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Either. Mixed, más é do thoil é.
- Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I support this Bill. I compliment Deputies Jack Chambers and Jim O'Callaghan. We can call them the Jack and Jill or Jack and Jim or whatever show but fair dues to them. We urgently need to address the expanding problem of gambling and specifically the problem of online gambling addiction. It is a plague on many families. I also salute the work carried out by many groups but especially...
- Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: -----before it is put in place. Agus Deputy Áine Rabbitte freisin.
- Future of the European Union: Statements (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am glad to be able to speak on the future of the European Union about which I have concerns, as have many others, for some time. I have been a campaigner since 1973 when we joined Europe. The ideas and views, as Deputy Haughey mentioned earlier, went back to the late Seán Lemass and many other political leaders here aspired to this, worked for this and helped to bring it about. We...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Nuair a dúirt mé aréir, it is an tAire who recommitted the Bill. I said last night it was the Minister-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course I will. I am speaking to amendment No. 4. They go from amendment No. 4 to amendment No. 21. As I said, it was the Minister who recommitted the Bill. We are blamed in certain quarters for delaying it but when Deputy Healy-Rae and I attended a committee on a few occasions to try to discuss the amendments, including our amendments, they were not ready, there was no discussion and...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the pilot? I hope he is not on the roads. I have lost my train of thought. I am questioning the pilot to see how we got into aviation here. Signs have now been put up but they are black. We have a limit but they are on a black background. Again, they have no authority. They are there as a kind of a warning, which is great, but they have no authority. It is not a direction. A...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am not quite finished yet, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, with respect.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. We have asked the Minister on numerous occasions - indeed I appealed to him on the last two occasions-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I hope he will and I look forward to it, but he has not responded to any of the issues we have raised at any of the Stages.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He did have an opportunity.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I look forward to his response and, as I said last night, I look forward to him withdrawing the scurrilous allegations he made about Deputy Danny Healy-Rae and our colleagues as a gang of road traffic terrorists.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course, it is relevant.