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- 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.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Will the Ministers please enter into negotiations-----
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: -----immediately without preconditions?
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: They were correct. I had two minutes to ask my question.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I had.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Of course, the Deputy can.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle is wasting our time.