Results 6,201-6,220 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I resent the Minister's tone, attitude and patronising statement suggesting that I do not understand the haulage industry. I have worked in it. I have loaded lorries and been a passenger in lorries, although I have never driven them. I have repaired lorries. I understand the axles, the calibration and the suspensions now used. How dare the Minister make such a statement? He has probably...
- Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am well aware of that and my name is on the amendment. The haulage industry is so vital that one of the Fine Gael candidates in Wexford is part of it. The party must be getting around to understanding how vital it is. As Deputy Fitzmaurice has said, we have so little rail, canal or other type of transport, the road haulage industry is vital to our survival in terms of both imports and...
- Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: There are many bushes. That is the problem. The Minister, Deputy Madigan, will not allow us to cut bushes. We debated that for two years but we finally passed legislation allowing people to cut bushes under supervision in March and August. The Minister just drove a coach and four through it. The Minister of State, Deputy Moran, knows hauliers and can speak to them. The truck mirrors are...
- Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Fair is fair. I praise the bridges I go over. She knows her stuff and she is very capable.
- Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Oh.
- Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I do not support the amendment. I have to be honest and fair in this matter. I was arguing with the Minister last night about a land tax, which could have brought in a lot of money, and the situation where executives earning huge money get certain preferable tax allowances. The Minister tried to make the case that he had reduced such allowances greatly, which may be true. There are nearly...
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Could I carry on without the Lord's name being take in vain from some inadequate people behind me? There is cursing and swearing.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: If they have to resort to taking the Lord's name in vain, what else is there?
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: It is unbelievable. I am trying to concentrate. I have a script.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Apologise for-----
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I would like to continue without being interrupted.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy was using the Lord's name in vain within earshot of me. To date this year, 100,000 patients have gone without hospital beds and have had to wait on trolleys in emergency departments. To the end of October last year, the numbers were the worst in the world. They have increased this year. I am out of time, but I appeal to the Minister, Cabinet and Taoiseach to do something...
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I and my colleagues have been out to see it.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: We know what is happening. I ask the Minister to check his conscience. A 102 year old recently spent three days on a trolley in University Hospital Waterford. Does the Minister have any moral compass or fibre? Does he think about the people who are waiting and being neglected and abused? I ask him to think of the staff.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Like the previous speaker, I compliment Fianna Fáil on tabling the motion. I thank the Minister for visiting places in Clonmel, such as the hospital and the doctor's surgery at Mary Street Medical Centre, which has fabulous diagnostic equipment. He worked hard to secure a contract to allow the medical centre to provide diagnoses privately. It was the shortest contract in the history...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I want to raise an issue the Minister of State at the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy D'Arcy, will know all about in his portfolio, namely, the cost of and unavailability of insurance to businesses, farmers and community and voluntary organisations. It is having a massive impact on our society. There are social farms as Deputy Michael Healy-Rae spoke about,...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I did.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The Government has good advocates for that itself.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: If one lives in a glass house one should not throw stones.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I do. We are waiting for ten years for it.