Results 18,661-18,680 of 20,830 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Wednesday, 28 June 2023.
- Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Wednesday, 28 June 2023.
- Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit.
- Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: I have an announcement to make. For clarification, the proceedings on this legislation shall be adjourned at 7.34 p.m. and will resume on Thursday. I call Deputy Darren O'Rourke.
- Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: The majority of long-term residential nursing home care on the island is provided by the private and voluntary sector. We all know that. As Ireland's population continues to age, the demand for nursing home care is increasing. Ireland's ageing population is rising faster than any other European country. The changing demographics provide the single biggest challenge to the sector and the...
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: What about cattle culling?
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy was starving.
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: Is mór an trua an rud seo ar maidin. I wonder if we in the right Parliament or in the right place or if the Ministers have read the motion. I see they did not oppose it but the Minister of State waited until the last two minutes of his reply to address the questions.
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: Our motion called, once and for all, on the Government to declare it will not pursue a compulsory or voluntary cull of the national herd, with no introduction of caps on Irish dairy cows or beef numbers. Furthermore, it calls for a review of the process of calculating methane emissions, considering the cycle effect, and calls on the Government to provide funding to farmers for implementing...
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. You can run, Minister, but you cannot hide. Your hiding days are over because you have abandoned the people of rural Ireland. There is the subterfuge and deceit the Minister and the Government goes on with, the blackguarding it does of farmers and the ineptitude of the Department. You are in bed with Mr. Goodman and the big beef barons. You are in bed with the big supermarkets and...
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: Excuse me, Acting Chair, but they are obvious to a blind man.
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: You did not stop anybody else who mentioned names and all.
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: "In bed" is a metaphor. We have not got a bed here. If we had, the Government would be asleep in it all day and would not get up to see the farmers. The farmers get up early in the morning and get up late at night to tend to their animals when they are young, sick or being attacked by marauding gangs of foxes and deer. We cannot have a cull of the deer population which is running riot...
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: Laugh away. You have something if you have the last laugh.
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: I have a point of clarification. We hate to break this charade. The Minister will not deal with the motion and will not accept it, so it is not agreed.
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: It is not agreed.
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: It is not agreed.
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: I am telling you this is a charade. We are not voting against it. I am just expressing my disgust at this practice of the Government agreeing to motions it does not agree with. We are not accepting it today.
- Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)
Mattie McGrath: No.