Results 11,601-11,620 of 20,803 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course. I have read the two amendments I am speaking about.
- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am talking to the subject matter of the amendments.
- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Not at all. People have come at this issue from different angles. I accept everyone's bona fides in this regard. As legislators, we have to make a choice when we are dealing with and voting on these two amendments. I appeal to the Minister to show understanding to the people who are here. There is a big difference between processing and profiling, or between profiling and processing. It...
- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I admit that I have concerns. I also admit and respect that the committee sat and discussed this for a long time. I am not a member of the committee and I was neither involved in this nor kept abreast of it. There are issues with regard to public consultation, as Deputy Byrne said. In most public consultations many people do not get involved. They might miss the deadlines because of...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputy Darragh O'Brien and I wish him well in his role as Fianna Fáil spokesperson on housing and on the motion tonight. Did the Minister say that there have been nine Ministers with responsibility for housing? Was it uimhir a naoi or were there six or seven Ministers? We talk about Charlie McCreevy's dirty dozen of tax cuts, but these housing Ministers are the useless six...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 140. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of running the health service in each of the years 2011 to 2017 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21580/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of operating his Department in each of the years 2011 to 2017, excluding the HSE budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21581/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform Implementation (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the areas of reform his Department is prioritising; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21978/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform Implementation (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: This is to ask the Minister the position on his Department prioritising cost saving initiatives in the interests of better financial prudence and scarce resources being spent wisely.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform Implementation (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The public service performance report for 2017 states the aim is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of public expenditure by linking the funding of public sector organisations to the results they deliver. That is vital. It is a very useful exercise and one we all support in terms of promoting positive reform. In the section of the report dealing with local authority funding for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform Implementation (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I did not say the Government was not giving enough money. It is giving plenty of money and there have been plenty of reviews, but nothing is being delivered. While the reviews and practices continue aplenty in the Department, nothing seems to change. There are poor outcomes. That is what I said. I did not say the Government was not giving the money. The houses are not being built. The...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform Implementation (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I did not say the Government had not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform Implementation (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: What good is money if one cannot build anything?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform Implementation (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Positive? In the Minister's mind.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform Implementation (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Campaigning.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform Implementation (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: No homes to be found.
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Do something about it then.
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Why does the Government not use it?
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Government is sitting on its hands.
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Blind people.