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- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Barrett was always fair.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Not quite, I would say.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Not so sweet.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: And two for south Dublin.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, am glad to be able to contribute to the debate. I apologise that I could not get here last Thursday to speak. I lost the keys of my car. If I got locked out of the building, perhaps the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, would have been pleased. I noted, looking in every now and then, that he was accompanying the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I try to focus on it, but when there are outbursts from different parts of the building, it is important to note the fact on the record. There is no room for that in a parliamentary democracy. I think the Ceann Comhairle would be the first to agree with me. This Bill, as I have said, is the brainchild of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. It was very dear to him before he...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: When it was a council of 11 he was very unhappy with its make-up, and we all were. I was certainly unhappy, and I said as much at the time. I said that we have other people watching us. Only last year, a report from the Group of States against Corruption, GRECO, a Council of Europe body, put further pressure on the Government to pass the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Committee of the Regions: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I apologise for having to leave to attend another meeting. I am delighted to welcome our guests - the president and his team - from the European Committee of the Regions. Cuirim fáilte ar leith roimh an gComhairleoir Ó Murchú; a very special welcome to Councillor Michael Murphy, who I know has been very active and, as leader of the group, very much to the fore in highlighting...
- Order of Business (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: No.
- Order of Business (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Not true.
- Order of Business (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: There is an old saying that one should never count one's chickens before they are hatched. The Taoiseach has had a chance to broadcast here. I am asking him again what I asked him last week. The Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, is now gone. The Taoiseach just said that with the exception of postal voters very few had voted. I wonder who else might have voted? What is the Taoiseach going...
- Order of Business (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not an allegation, it is a fact.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He did.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Some €100,000 was spent on magazines.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Tipperary event was organised by the Office of Public Works, OPW.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome Templemore being open of course. We need more gardaí and we need support for them. The figures quoted by the Taoiseach are just a fraction of what we need to tackle crime. People are sick and tired of these private consultancy companies. The Taoiseach has admitted that his Department is unable to do this. We are talking about the amount of money spent by one Department. I...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I would like to be associated with the expressions of sympathy on the tragic deaths of Ana Kriegel and Jastine Valdez and to thank all the emergency people, including An Garda Síochána and everybody else. These are atrocious crimes, and so sad. This morning I received a reply to a parliamentary question I submitted to the Department of...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 103. To ask the Taoiseach the meetings he has held with companies (details supplied) since 2017; and the areas of Government or public policy he has discussed at these meetings. [22096/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 105. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the breakdown of the training and development and incidental expenses incurred by his Department in the year ending 31 December 2017. [22137/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (22 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 106. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the breakdown of the travel and subsistence expenses incurred by his Department in the year ending 31 December 2017. [22153/18]