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Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It might as well be in government. It is supporting the Government. The leader of Fianna Fáil was attacking the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, again today, even though he had voted to express confidence in him five or six weeks ago. Fianna Fáil cannot have its cake and eat it. Its members voted again to allow the reckless spending on the national children's hospital to go...

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, I know, but I am just asking what Fianna Fáil Members are going to hide behind when Brexit occurs.

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: They will have no place to run and hide. The people have not been fooled. It is a coalition under another name-----

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: There are post offices being closed and the health service is in disarray.

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Fianna Fáil Members are like nodding donkeys in support of the Government, no matter what it does and how their leader insults it at the Ard Fheis or a party meeting. They come back the day after. They had a mock raid. It is shadow boxing. They had a chance to vote no confidence in the Minister and doing so would not have caused a general election.

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Excuse me, but that is not parliamentary language.

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I do not want the sitting to be suspended at all.

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is not parliamentary language to say I am done. I am not.

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am-----

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am just making a point. I am making a mockery of the party beside me.

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I too am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on the very important matter of agrifood market priorities post Brexit. As other Members stated, there has been so much talk about Brexit that we have nearly talked ourselves out of existence. There is a definite imponderable. we do not know what will happen. Brexit is causing untold damage and uncertainty within the agricultural sector. ...

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Or less, yes.

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I said that. Very few small business have a turnover of up to €50 million.

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I know that. I accept that.

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I accept that, but they will not have that number of employees or anything like it.

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I know that it states "or less". I hope the Minister will be able to answer the questions I intend to ask him. I have asked him those questions before but he did not answer them and he will not answer them tonight either. He will be singing dumb. May I be allowed to carry on without the smirks and jeers from the two farmers on the other side of the House?

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The one farmer. I apologise to the Minister of State. I should be blaming the Minister who is invisible when there is a crisis in agriculture, the Minister who cannot be found to tell us what is going on. We know from Teagasc that the agrifood sector in Ireland in 2016 generated 7% of gross value added, a sum of €13.9 billion, 9.8% of Ireland's merchandise exports, and provided...

Educational Supports for Children Experiencing Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to speak on this motion on educational supports for children experiencing homelessness. I compliment Deputy Thomas Byrne and his colleagues on bringing it forward. We speak about the chaos in the United Kingdom Parliament as a national embarrassment to its politics, but the issue of child homelessness is equally a national embarrassment for this Parliament and the Government in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government gives explicit recognition to the right of employees, especially State employees, to freedom of expression. Yesterday, I met ambulance drivers striking in Tipperary. They want to change union. They want to leave SIPTU and join the Psychiatric Nurses Association.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is promised legislation. Why, in this day and age, is SIPTU allowed to block this? What is going on? Big Jim Larkin and James Connolly would turn in their graves over this. The ambulance drivers are entitled to freedom of expression and to join the Psychiatric Nurses Association. They are entitled to do what they want. They provide front-line services and respond to all calls, as...