Results 6,521-6,540 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: They are joined at the hip with confidence and supply. I would like to speak without interruption, if I can. The Deputy had plenty of time to talk.
- Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am not inviting interruptions and there is nobody else interrupting me. I am pointing out that Deputy Micheál Martin has said he fully supports the broadcasting charge, so they both know that before they even change places, before confidence and supply goes this way or that way. Tweedledum or Tweedledee, they are all the one. I certainly telephoned RTÉ a number of times to...
- Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Can I continue without commentary?
- Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Thank you. He is distracting me. If he wants to debate with me, I will debate with him any day but I am talking to the Minister about this legislation.
- UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important matter. I also welcome those measures we can and must take to arrive at a fair, just and proportionate response to the issue of climate change. I do not believe the Government has the slightest clue of what those words mean. It does not do "fair" or "proportionate" and I do not know if we can trust it with climate change. Do I believe...
- Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to share time with Deputies Michael Collins, Danny Healy-Rae and Michael Healy-Rae.
- Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak on this important issue. I support the decision of school secretaries to commence industrial action, which began with a 68% turnout on 20 September last. That does not happen lightly. These school secretaries want to be in their jobs and in their places of work. They do not want to be taking industrial action. We praised the Minister last night for the action he...
- Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I commend Deputy O'Callaghan on bringing forward this important legislation and for highlighting what is a growing menace with society, namely, knife crime. I found it disturbing to hear Deputy O'Callaghan refer during his First Stage introduction of the Bill to the fact that the number of knives seized by An Garda Síochána has increased by 66% since 2016. In 2017, 1,600 knives...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Special needs education should be close to all of our hearts. Children were due to start in a wonderful school, Scoil Aonghusa, on 16 September. Siobhan Lyons is a parent who is very concerned that her son Ryan has not been able to start school due to problems organising special needs assistants, SNAs. It is pointless having classrooms and extra pupils when no extra SNAs have been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Fine Gael never built houses.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach has not brought many of them back.
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: What about deer?
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: What? Why should the Minister of State ignore it?
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Sorry. He did not say "ignore".
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal. I thought he said "ignore".
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: We thought he said "ignore".
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Sorry.
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Ar aghaidh leat.
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: That is okay. We acknowledge that.
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: He would not want to have said "ignore" anyway.