Results 9,201-9,220 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: No I mean-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Surely to God we can get a point of clarification. I am in possession. First of all the knowledgeable Deputy did not even know what Standing Order it was. Since when did the Chair come along-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Since when did the Chair have to tell the Deputy what Standing Order to use? I hope if I am lost in a Standing Order after a while he will tell me what-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle did.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I would expect the Deputy would have known the Standing Order coming in. I want to continue speaking on amendment No. 4.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: If a person has an accident and kills someone, all the penalty points in the world will not matter. I am talking about road safety.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am well aware of the laws of the land on hedge cutting. The county council can give a felling notice to the landowner but the county council has primary responsibility for the verges and the sides of the roads, and it will not cut them. Worse than that, it is not allowed cut them because of the Wildlife Act. I am talking about the safety of motorists and, above all, the safety of...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am not finished at all. With respect, these are all issues I have to deal with and the Minister will not deal with. I do not want any sideshow from the benches on my right.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I want to deal with the motorways, some of which go through my county, but in particular the 2+1 roads, which are lethal. I thank the Minister for coming down past my county to the Piltown bypass. He knows the number of road deaths there in recent years due to a wrongly designed, dysfunctional roadway. It was pointed out to officials from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, the...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I have not mentioned this before. These are all issues-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course, it is relevant to penalty points. It is relevant to deaths. What is more important - penalty points or road deaths?
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am not.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: These road deaths are a slaughter. They have crosses on the roadsides with the number of people killed, but we have no sign of any funding. I do not know what the motorcyclists call the 2+1 road but it is lethal, with a steel wire stretched up the road, and if anyone hits it at any kind of speed, they are cut in two halves. The Minister saw it was the wrong design and that there should...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The principle is wrong. I did not mention it until now. If it is wrong, it is wrong, and the concept should be taken away. As I said, that is little solace given the number of people killed on the N24 bypass that was widened and where the junctions were supposed to be made safe. People would not listen. I am just making the point that the RSA and the Department of Transport, Tourism and...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am not quite finished yet, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, with respect.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. We have asked the Minister on numerous occasions - indeed I appealed to him on the last two occasions-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I hope he will and I look forward to it, but he has not responded to any of the issues we have raised at any of the Stages.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He did have an opportunity.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I look forward to his response and, as I said last night, I look forward to him withdrawing the scurrilous allegations he made about Deputy Danny Healy-Rae and our colleagues as a gang of road traffic terrorists.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course, it is relevant.