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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I have called for cohesive action and finance.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister can keep counting and doing censuses.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We need action, not words.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: In the middle of the worst housing crisis ever, a mother of two children who refuses to make herself homeless has been incarcerated at Mountjoy for 70 days at the request of a vulture fund. When will we do something for Ms Yvonne Walsh and the many hundreds of people facing similar treatment over the summer? The banks and vulture funds will be relentless. Ms Walsh has written to both the...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Will the Tánaiste answer the correspondence from her?
- Air Services Agreements: Motion (12 Jul 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I hope they all have full licences.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Good man, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I hope the Chair is not talking about me either, I will be patient.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I want to pay tribute to the postmasters and postmistresses who are retiring and indeed those who are continuing for the work they do and I thank the fir agus mná an phoist who deliver the services. It was mentioned earlier about new services expanding in the vans. I can tell the witnesses that many of them are bringing the bread and the paper and are bringing the only bit of life and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I hate to cut across the Minister but he did not get the post office portfolio when he was appointed. It was under the remit of the then Minister of State, Deputy Ring. It was like the Last Supper on Holy Thursday. He just could not wait to get rid of it some months later. The Minister might want to correct the record on his point that he has been dealing with questions about post offices...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. I want the Minister to clarify the position.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Could the Minister answer the question Deputy Nolan asked about the motion that was passed by Dáil Éireann more than two years ago? We negotiated the motion with his Department before it was agreed by all Deputies and accepted by the Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Keep doing it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I asked whether the postmasters had received full information on the contract at the time of the vote. I am informed they did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Did they receive legal advice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I have two brief clarifications.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: One question I did not ask and one I did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: One is about the social welfare contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Is the social welfare contract only offered on a 12-monthly basis to each postmaster? Could Mr. McRedmond repeat the percentage of postmasters who voted to accept the package? Did Mr. McRedmond say 80%? I did not understand him.