Results 11,801-11,820 of 20,803 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Topical Issue Debate: Sports Capital Programme (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He should be here to take the matter.
- Topical Issue Debate: Sports Capital Programme (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He is probably out in the dining room.
- Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: This motion was proposed by the Labour Party. That party was in government and Deputy Kelly was Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for a long time, yet they built nothing. It is all about supply. It is not about demonising landlords as happens so much of the time here. There might be a few rogue landlords, maybe a good few. The vast majority of landlords,...
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I support Teachta Catherine Martin, too, on the amendment, but we have to be very careful. There is a large number of Gaelscoileanna. While there are areas of the country that are still Gaeltacht areas, there are others that are not but there are people living in them who are interested in having their children educated through the medium of Irish. Therefore, we have to be very careful in...
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am glad to see the Minister is doing his best to work with the Opposition to approach this issue in a common sense and cohesive way. As Teachta Byrne said, it is not all about school admission policies. It must be about nurturing our teanga freisin. I did not quite understand what the Minister meant when he mentioned that pupils would not be taken in - na daltaí ón...
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: In Ireland some 90% of primary schools are under Catholic patronage. Factors such as emigration and the increasingly secular population has led to demand for more diversity in school patronage. The 2012 report of the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector recommended a policy of divestment, which is the transfer of a school from a denominational patron to another patron. I...
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Sorry?
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Are we on amendment No. 37?
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Is that amendment related to school patronage?
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is fraught with danger because if the boards of management do not have the resources it will be an issue. We must remember that the vast majority are voluntary boards made up of volunteers from all kinds of backgrounds. It is a big stick to beat them with without giving them the resources. We have to give them resources. They do not have resources and we know what an onerous job it is....
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: There is.
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am not referring to Standing Orders. A point of order was raised a few minutes ago when Deputy Collins was speaking and I am making the point that we have been speaking to the amendments. If the Minister of State, Deputy Kehoe, was here he would know. Where is he? He has hardly gone to the Lebanon.
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not agreed.
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Vótáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Bus Services: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is 11.30 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Bus Services: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: That is just insulting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Bus Services: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I have been involved in rural transport since as far back as 1999. I thank two people in particular, Fr. Gerard O'Connor and Fr. Pat Condon in Waterford and Tipperary who led it nationally and came up to the transport forum. The rural transport system is doing well in the limited areas where it is provided. I must declare I am a board member of Ring a Link, which operates in Tipperary,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Bus Services: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am. This is applicable because they cannot get a driving test. They pay €600 for lessons but if they apply for a test in my county they must wait six months. If they fail it, and they might fail it not because of driving but because of a fault the tester sees in the car, which is debatable, how will they get to college? How will they get to-----