Results 5,001-5,020 of 20,701 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: It is very relevant.
- Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: It is very relevant to enforcement.
- Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The amendment is about public meetings but it will lead to enforcement at some stage if plans are enacted and the people have not had their say on them. Enforcement proceedings may arise if objections are deemed ineligible. I believe this is all relevant but I will be guided by the Acting Chairman. I respect the Chair but we will keep our discussion to the Republic. We will not go near...
- Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: It was the Acting Chairman who introduced the topic of the Orange Order. I do not think they have any lodges down in the South, although they have one or two in Cavan and Monaghan.
- Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Acting Chairman for the history lesson. He is a good man.
- Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to the Bill. I am sticking to the legislation. It is nearly an omnibus Bill. The Minister made a liquorice allsorts of it. He put in nice bits and bad bits and hoped that the nice bits would prevent us seeing the bad bits. He also brought it in very late, in the last days of the term before Christmas. That is shameful and wrong. The Minister would rail against that if he...
- Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 5: In page 4, to delete lines 1 to 5 and substitute the following: "(i) shall hold public meetings (except in such serious and limited circumstances as may be prescribed by law, such as an emergency period, where the holding of such a meeting is not reasonably practicable, in which case a planning authority shall make auxiliary arrangements for effective and...
- Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I expected great things from the Minister in his office. I wished him well and still do, but dealing with legislation and with two issues, trying to put the good into the bad, is a type of liquorice allsorts. If we could take out the bad parts, it would be great, but we cannot. There is an effort to try to deal with evictions and deal with the situation of people who are forced onto the...
- Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: It is a dictatorship.
- Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I too am glad to be able to speak to this Bill tonight, although I cannot say "glad" because this matter is scandalous and downright outrageous. The Minister was in opposition as spokesman on planning and the environment for long enough. To bring forward this kind of Bill in the eleventh and a half hour before Christmas, cúpla lá roimh an Nollaig, is shocking. The Minister is...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach will have heard the song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary", but it must be an awful long way for him, because he promised me months ago that he would meet the task force in Tipperary, the Jobs4Tipp and March4Tipp groups and representatives like Councillor Anne Marie Ryan. Could he organise a Zoom meeting to deal with the issue of a ring road for Tipperary town? The motorway is...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Is Tipperary too far away?
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Not this year anyway.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Could the Taoiseach-----
- Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I ask the Government to give us back our wonderful St. Brigid's hospital and to give us access to our hospice beds where families got excellent palliative care. We have a lift in the building and we have showers in the building. It is not Dickensian. It is no older than Clonmel hospital and many other district hospitals in the country. The Government should give it back to us. I thank...
- Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted that the Minister of State is here. The Ceann Comhairle might allow me to digress slightly on another issue. Gabhaim buíochas don iar-Sheanadóir, Brian Ó Domhnaill, agus Mairead McGrath agus Valerie Ward in our office and our support team for bringing this comprehensive motion forward. I make no apologies for it. They did that with our input and oversight but...
- Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Stick to the motion.
- Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy-----
- Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I never said-----
- Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Congratulations.