Results 12,021-12,040 of 20,803 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: -----when I see legislation like this that is incomprehensible and uncharacteristic of the House. In spite of our pleas for engagement and for amendments to be accepted on Committee Stage, not only does the Minister delay but he recommits items. This is one of them. That is why we are still here ag cáint faoin mBille seo. It is not my decision or the Acting Chairman's. In Tipperary...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am. I am asking that this be on the syllabus of the young people in transition year and maybe even before that, in third year. The Minister should sit down with the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, and in the way special needs assistants are taken on special assistants should be taken on to encourage these young people to read and study the rules of the road and to...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: What is the point of order now?
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I respect the Chair but I am not going to take a lecture from an Teachta Murphy and her crowd.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am not going to take a lecture from a city slicker who has moved down to Kildare and now wants to tell us that what I am talking about is rubbish or whatever else.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I have not insulted anyone here.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I have not insulted anyone here.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, but she is not coming in to insult me.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: She did of course.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: She did of course. She said I was deliberately saying to people that the Minister would not answer the question today. She said that I had no interest in hearing answers from the Minister. I ask for that to be withdrawn. I have interests.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I have asked him. Will the Chair allow me to speak without interruption?
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Through the Chair, yes. I am not going to be dictated to by Deputy Murphy. I know her political history and where she came from in politics. I am not going to be dictated to by that. Those days are long gone, dictatorship. I know where she came from. I asked the Minister and I beg him and I have begged him.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I have begged the Minister.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I have begged him, I have written to him-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to it.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am saying I just-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They can make it about me. I am saying I want the answers. Deputy Murphy said on the record that I did not want the answers. Of course I want the answers. I am pleading with the Minister. I asked the Acting Chairman and he told me he would be on the list and that if I wanted I could give him some of my time. I will do it any time if he would answer any question. In all the debates we...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: In the interest of-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Acting Chair and I will not-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I will.