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- Public Sector Reform (11 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Senior public servants seemed to have had the ear of the previous Government in this area. I hope this Government will not be hoodwinked by them this time. Will the Minister outline how the reforms will be put in place?
- Public Sector Reform (11 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I wish the Minister well. I was so enraged by the budget before last. One of my biggest rows with the late Brian Lenihan, with whom I was good friends, came from when he went back on his decision to apply the pension levy to senior public servants. I now know why he did it - they had his ear. No one else in the country got away with it. An outrageous decision, it undermined the entire...
- Public Sector Reform (11 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: It is not.
- Public Sector Reform (11 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Please.
- Public Sector Reform (11 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister.
- Patents (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (6 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I do not know how I am going to follow that. Deputy Finian McGrath was very inventive during his contribution. I hope that neither the Minister of State nor the Minister for Finance will get ideas with regard to patenting the pension levy or other issues of that nature. If they did patent the levy, we would be stuck with it for a long time. The Patents (Amendment) Bill 2011 is very...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste thinks differently though.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste has the patent on it.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (5 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a disadvantaged area payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason for the delay; the reason this delay has been caused again this year when the person in question was informed last year that mapping would not cause a delay in the future; when it is expected that this payment will...
- Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: What about all the U-turns?
- Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Hayes was good at that himself. That rings hollow.
- Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The surgical gloves are still on.
- Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State does not know what that is.
- Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Government has choices.
- Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: But last January, so doing was wrong.
- Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: We know that.
- Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, on advisers.