Results 11,621-11,640 of 20,803 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Government is killing it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: My question is about the programme for Government and support for education in national schools. St. Mary's CBS primary school in Carrick-on-Suir is an excellent school with excellent staff and principal, Denis Cotter. In February of last year, the school got DEIS 1 status and was delighted. Last September, after enrolments, the school was one short. It had 132 students but it needed 133...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Consular Services Expenditure (17 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of consultancy services, value for money and policy review expenses incurred by his Department as at 31 December 2017. [21891/18]
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I would like to be associated with the expressions of sympathy on the tragic deaths of Ana Kriegel and Jastine Valdez and to thank all the emergency people, including An Garda Síochána and everybody else. These are atrocious crimes, and so sad. This morning I received a reply to a parliamentary question I submitted to the Department of...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome Templemore being open of course. We need more gardaí and we need support for them. The figures quoted by the Taoiseach are just a fraction of what we need to tackle crime. People are sick and tired of these private consultancy companies. The Taoiseach has admitted that his Department is unable to do this. We are talking about the amount of money spent by one Department. I...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Some €100,000 was spent on magazines.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Tipperary event was organised by the Office of Public Works, OPW.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He did.
- Order of Business (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: There is an old saying that one should never count one's chickens before they are hatched. The Taoiseach has had a chance to broadcast here. I am asking him again what I asked him last week. The Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, is now gone. The Taoiseach just said that with the exception of postal voters very few had voted. I wonder who else might have voted? What is the Taoiseach going...
- Order of Business (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not an allegation, it is a fact.
- Order of Business (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: No.
- Order of Business (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Not true.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, am glad to be able to contribute to the debate. I apologise that I could not get here last Thursday to speak. I lost the keys of my car. If I got locked out of the building, perhaps the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, would have been pleased. I noted, looking in every now and then, that he was accompanying the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I try to focus on it, but when there are outbursts from different parts of the building, it is important to note the fact on the record. There is no room for that in a parliamentary democracy. I think the Ceann Comhairle would be the first to agree with me. This Bill, as I have said, is the brainchild of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. It was very dear to him before he...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: When it was a council of 11 he was very unhappy with its make-up, and we all were. I was certainly unhappy, and I said as much at the time. I said that we have other people watching us. Only last year, a report from the Group of States against Corruption, GRECO, a Council of Europe body, put further pressure on the Government to pass the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017. I...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Not quite, I would say.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Not so sweet.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: And two for south Dublin.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Barrett was always fair.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order.