Results 6,841-6,860 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: What about the national children’s hospital, the national broadband plan and the legacy of corruption?
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: My goodness. I never saw the like of this in my life. The failure and inaction of the Ministers present is appalling. We write our own speeches. We are not reading scripts churned out by the Government's spin machine, which we have every day of the week.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I do not accept any of the ridiculous and personal criticism they have levelled at us. We represent the people and we are here to do so without interruption if I can.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I acknowledge all those who spoke this evening in support of the motion. Where are all the Minister and Minister of State's backbenchers? Where are the Labour Party Members and the Sinn Féin Members? There are only a few of us in the Chamber and people are suffering distress and trauma. That is the way the Government has it. The Ministers' colleagues are all licking their wounds...
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: No one was prosecuted.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: That is because he is giving the lecture. If he says he is right and knows it all, he is complicit in it.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Despite that-----
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister had his opportunity to speak.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Is the clock stopped now, a Cheann Comhairle?
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: There was inactivity.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The reference to standing idly by was a statement made long ago.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Despite that, people hold the belief that if they simply act in good faith and try their level best the regulatory powers in the State will protect them, but that has not been happening. That is not the experience of so many thousands of families right across the country. Then the Minister tries to lecture us on bringing forward a well-researched motion. The figures are there if he wants...
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: He is.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is saying that we are not.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Give them a chance.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister is riling himself.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Shocking.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.