Results 561-580 of 10,787 for speaker:Matt Carthy
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: This is one of the first times on the Order of Business-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: -----that I have been a part of that Deputy Mattie McGrath has not had something to say.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: Now is his opportunity-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: -----to let us know why he is facilitating this charade and why the Deputy beside him is. Maybe he should get an opportunity to tell the Dáil why he is going to support an increase in carbon taxes for the next five years, thereby increasing costs for people driving to work and heating their homes and for farmers, and then pretending that he is in the Opposition-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: -----and then having the facilitation of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Peadar Tóibín and Mattie McGrath to carry on in this charade.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: This is a test of you, a Cheann Comhairle, and so far you are failing the test.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: It does not give me any pleasure to say that but you are facilitating one of the most outrageous breaches of parliamentary democracy we have seen here. It is not good enough.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: It is not good enough.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: It is not good enough. The two boys there got 42% of the vote but that does not give them the right to run roughshod over 100 years of precedent - every single precedent of the Oireachtas. It is not good enough.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: It is not good enough. We have a cabal here of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Independents making a joke of this whole process.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: I am really disappointed that you, a Cheann Comhairle, are facilitating such a charade.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: It is not acceptable at all.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: I do not think it behoves the dignity of your office or this Dáil if we allow this charade to continue-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: -----as has been outlined today. It is absolutely not good enough.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: Why is it that your provisional arrangement favours the so-called technical group, a Cheann Comhairle?
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: That is not good enough. That is not fair.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: How can the-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: How can the Government Chief Whip defend a situation where Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)
Matt Carthy: -----are getting 15 minutes each to speak, while Sinn Féin, which is larger than Fine Gael, the record should show, is getting ten minutes?