Results 9,141-9,160 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Order of Business (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They are only gimmicking and acting the you-know-what, or the Ned, as we call it in Tipperary. That is what they are doing, the three of them, but it is not funny. A sum of €2 million has just been thrown away and the proposal has now been scrapped. What is going on in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport? I know that the Minister is not here. He is never here to support...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: What about head 5?
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: For the past two weeks, the Taoiseach has been asking people to stop making comments that might damage the integrity of the Irish health system. I share his view in that regard. However, two of the country's senior medical professionals are endlessly repeating dangerous and reckless comments and the Taoiseach will not stand up to them because they support his view in the upcoming...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We are close to the top, according to the World Health Organization.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: While the Taoiseach was Minister for Health.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: In recent weeks, the world-class reputation of the Irish medical and maternal health care system has been subjected to a national campaign of dangerous and reckless misinformation. The situation has got so bad that no fewer than four former heads of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the current chair of the joint HSE working group on maternal mortality, Dr. Michael...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Health Policy (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has worked in collaboration with the United Kingdom Department of Health on the development of health or reproductive health policy over the past two years; and if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20806/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 337. To ask the Minister for Health the contacts he or his Department have had with a company (details supplied) in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20807/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Health Policy (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 338. To ask the Minister for Health the policy position with respect to the use of the term fatal foetal abnormality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20808/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 525. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address concerns that section 5 of the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 undermines privacy by allowing private bodies to use the public services card as a form of identification; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20796/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Turas Nua is a private limited company; the payments made to Turas Nua to operate its contract with her Department; the period of time over which these payments have been made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20805/18]
- Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I appreciate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's guidance.
- Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am not saying I am always in order. I would never say that. I can be out of order as well as anyone else. I am only an ordinary Teachta Dála here. I am just wondering in my own brain what the difference is between money laundering in Europe and money laundering when an entity gets money from George Soros or somebody else and does not give it back. It is illegal. What is the...
- Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome that this Bill is being brought forward, however belatedly. I would like to know the reasons for the delay. Why did we have to wait until action was taken by the EU to bring this legislation before the House? Much other legislation has obviously been prioritised, including legislation which in my view is not as important as this. I include in this the Judicial Appointments...
- Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: That is not very funny. I hope to be covered by most Bills, as I am entitled to be in a democracy. I am entitled to act within the legislation and obey it, as I and my colleagues do. It does not behove the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to describe us as terrorists. We see the effects and impacts of terrorism all over the world, especially at present. Financial operations and...
- Topical Issue Matters (10 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister will not do it for the humans.
- Topical Issue Matters (10 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. When is the Minister going to do it?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I asked questions.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We are not.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We are talking about corruption.