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Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I have not insulted anyone here.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, but she is not coming in to insult me.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: She did of course.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: She did of course. She said I was deliberately saying to people that the Minister would not answer the question today. She said that I had no interest in hearing answers from the Minister. I ask for that to be withdrawn. I have interests.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I have asked him. Will the Chair allow me to speak without interruption?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Through the Chair, yes. I am not going to be dictated to by Deputy Murphy. I know her political history and where she came from in politics. I am not going to be dictated to by that. Those days are long gone, dictatorship. I know where she came from. I asked the Minister and I beg him and I have begged him.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I have begged the Minister.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I have begged him, I have written to him-----

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to it.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am saying I just-----

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: They can make it about me. I am saying I want the answers. Deputy Murphy said on the record that I did not want the answers. Of course I want the answers. I am pleading with the Minister. I asked the Acting Chairman and he told me he would be on the list and that if I wanted I could give him some of my time. I will do it any time if he would answer any question. In all the debates we...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I have it here. I am just saying-----

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Acting Chairman knows what I am discussing. I have given the facts and figures. The Minister will not answer any questions. Would I be completely out of order in asking the Acting Chairman to give some of my time to the Minister to answer my questions?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I would be willing to do that if I thought I would get an answer from the Minister.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I would not expect that.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I respect the Acting Chairman's request but we have a lot of long and winding roads in Tipperary and the Minister did not go to see them last week. He just stuck to the motorway. I do not want to be challenging but I have people in Tipperary to represent. It is my duty.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is my duty as a Teachta Dála, a messenger of the people, to represent them-----

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: -----when I see legislation like this that is incomprehensible and uncharacteristic of the House. In spite of our pleas for engagement and for amendments to be accepted on Committee Stage, not only does the Minister delay but he recommits items. This is one of them. That is why we are still here ag cáint faoin mBille seo. It is not my decision or the Acting Chairman's. In Tipperary...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Acting Chairman and I appreciate his vindicating my rights. I resent being told I was acting the clown or whatever else. As I said, for the record I have statistics here that the Minister confirmed of the number of people waiting to be scheduled for driving tests. I have said this is "deeply alarming and a further indication of the disarray that is afflicting the learner...