Results 7,541-7,560 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ministerial Advisers Data (12 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: 718. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of advisers and special advisers employed by her Department in 2017 and 2018 and to date in 2019; the areas of expertise covered by such advisers; the annual salaries associated with same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6570/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Advisers Data (12 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: 753. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of advisers and special advisers employed by his Department in 2017 and 2018 and to date in 2019; the areas of expertise covered by such advisers; the annual salaries associated with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6574/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ministerial Advisers Data (12 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: 774. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of advisers and special advisers employed by her Department in 2017 and 2018 and to date in 2019; the areas of expertise covered by such advisers; the annual salaries associated with same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6567/19]
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Zappone, and her honest and fresh approach in trying to answer questions to the best of her ability. I worked hard to try to get rural proofing put into the programme for Government and we were supposed to have rural proofing. An Post is closing post offices. I am talking about Clogheen in County Tipperary today. An independent review is supposed to be...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the postmistress, Ms Margaret Moroney, for such sterling work there over the decades.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Maith an bhean.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Do the Minister, Deputy Harris, his colleague, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, and An Taoiseach respect and value our nurses? It is a simple question.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Tá ceist eile agam más é do thoil é. The Ministers, na hAirí, have spent €1 million on a PR firm to cover up the debacle - the black hole - that is the children's hospital. They spent €80 million on consultants to design that mess. Where is the accountability? Will they hold anyone in the HSE or the Department to account? The chairman of the board...
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: It is about money. They have money for this. If one goes to the shop, one cannot buy-----
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: No, excuse me-----
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: If one goes to the shop with no money in one's pocket, one will get no groceries. They do not have money to pay the nurses but they have money for everything else.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: That is relevant, it is not about money. How more relevant can I be? What is wrong with the Leas-Cheann Comhairle?
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: It is totally relevant. They do not have money for the nurses or ordinary services, the elderly and so on but they have money to throw it at consultants, design people and design teams. I am asking the Minister if he will get into proper, meaningful negotiations with-----
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am not finished. Excuse me, we are sharing time.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: We are sharing time. I have two and a half minutes.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Not to me. We are sharing time.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: No, we are sharing time.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am not.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am asking them. It is all about money.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: And it is about money.