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- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Do you have any figures on how many have signed up?
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: They want to know where they stand.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: They want something definite.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: It is much easier than this one.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister cannot say that.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: They will be needed too.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I hope so.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: This is late November, not 1 April.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Do please. I too am as concerned about the rural environment, and all the environment, as the Minister, his officials and anybody else. I refer to the Minister affectionately as Big Phil-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: -----and I was delighted when he was appointed Minister because I felt he was a rural man who would look after rural Ireland. Knowing his record, and knowing his neighbours from Newcastle who used to live beside him many years ago, I was sure that would be the case. I will not say what I would like to say about the previous Minister, John Gormley, but I had many battles with him. This...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: That is what the Bill is about. It is about holes in the ground that everything goes into but we are making S-H-1-T of it.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I have enough said. I am sending a clear message to the Minister to back off, put this issue away and leave the rural people alone because they will not take any more. If he keeps at them, he will have some trouble on his hands. They are quiet, law-abiding and respectful people but not on this issue. This legislation has not come about by way of an EU directive. The Minister can blame...
- Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I wish the Taoiseach and his Cabinet colleagues well. It is time they put on the green jersey and stood up for Ireland's rightful place in Europe. This country has been plundered. The European Central Bank and other institutions have failed us both in Ireland and in the European context and Irish people are paying the price with their blood. We are in a third world war in which no bullets...
- Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach should stand up for us.
- Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Of course he has a view.
- Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach needs to stand up and represent this country.
- Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: We will not be allowed to have a say.
- Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach had his chance to do likewise.