Results 8,841-8,860 of 20,873 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- 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...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They are important for Dublin.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy is only concerned about Dublin.
- 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 apologise for any inconvenience caused to the Acting Chairman. I appreciate his ruling. I am rather perturbed as a rural Deputy about this. It is not all about Dublin. Everything is about Dublin and to hell with the rest of the country. I am surprised to hear that coming from Deputy Broughan.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I will not allow us to be called circus or circus clowns or be told to look in the mirror as those Members opposite cannot do so themselves. I represent a cohort of people who want to be able to live in the country, finish their education there and to have some modicum of rural life. They do not want to be isolated or sitting, as the former Tánaiste, Deputy Burton, said looking at...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach. I do not think I was in control; the Chair was. I was certainly in possession.