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- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Are we going to have to get international observers to come in to ensure it is done right? They are all so desperate for a "Yes" vote that it is quite sickening to see it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They will allow anything to go on. The Minister, Deputy Harris, will canvass with Colm O'Gorman, who is outside of the law.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: RTÉ last night was not allowed put on Maria Steen because the Minister, Deputy Harris, was afraid to debate with her. That is what happened. The interference is sickening.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We all know what happened.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I know what I am talking about.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It happened.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They can do what they like. All the political parties are in bed together.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Fianna Fáil is driving the car - the second wheel.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I have done.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: When it is all over.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Could the Ceann Comhairle read them again?
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They tried to eat it and could not.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am as confused as the rest of the Members. The optics of what has happened are certainly not good. Many amendments have been ruled out. I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle's position. We adjourned last night in disarray and he had to try to sort this out. I am not questioning his decision at all. He has informed us that several amendments, or up to 30, as far as I could make out, may not...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: So am I.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: With all respect to the Ceann Comhairle, I was not here the last day so I did not know whether the Minister was here or not. I was told. Dúirt bean liom go ndúirt bean léi go raibh fear i dTiobraid Árann a bhfuil póca ina léine aige. He should be here. I would not criticise him for being here because it is his duty. He created this dog's dinner and he should...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am and I am looking forward to much more of a say, but I wish the Minister were here to address some of the comments made last night and especially so I can seek an apology for what he said to me in front of my young daughter.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It was not in here; I know that. It was in the building. I am just making the point that the Minister seems to have lost the run of himself completely and is still losing the run of himself. He is in hiding now. He fleetingly came in for votes last night and fled again like a scalded cat the minute the doors were opened. He could not be restrained for a minute in here.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I did not believe I was. I am sorry if I am. With regard to the two legal institutions, King's Inns and the Law Society in Blackhall Place, the solicitors' area, we need significant reform. Certainly, this Bill is not reforming either of them in a meaningful way. It is a mixum-gatherum now, or, as I said last night, aliquorice allsorts, and we have no sorts at the end of it.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, please-----