Results 9,221-9,240 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Why would it not be relevant? If you recall-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, but I am just saying until the Minister responds, I am just allowing him-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: -----the good grace-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. I am just offering the opportunity for a third time - I know he did not make it in the House - to respond.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I did not say that, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I just said I asked him three times and gave him three chances that he might reconsider because it is a very hurtful allegation to make against anyone, never mind elected Members. I was making the point that the figures, on which the Minister has predicated the Bill, are totally false, erroneous and spurious - one can call them whatever one...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, but to get the penalty points the people in this case with a particular blood-alcohol level must be breathalysed and brought to a Garda station and go on the special machine. Of course, that is the case and we must have trust and faith in that system, but we have no faith in the system. The people with the responsibility to stop drivers on the road are members of the Garda, and they are...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Nuair a dúirt mé aréir, it is an tAire who recommitted the Bill. I said last night it was the Minister-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course I will. I am speaking to amendment No. 4. They go from amendment No. 4 to amendment No. 21. As I said, it was the Minister who recommitted the Bill. We are blamed in certain quarters for delaying it but when Deputy Healy-Rae and I attended a committee on a few occasions to try to discuss the amendments, including our amendments, they were not ready, there was no discussion and...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the pilot? I hope he is not on the roads. I have lost my train of thought. I am questioning the pilot to see how we got into aviation here. Signs have now been put up but they are black. We have a limit but they are on a black background. Again, they have no authority. They are there as a kind of a warning, which is great, but they have no authority. It is not a direction. A...
- Future of the European Union: Statements (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am glad to be able to speak on the future of the European Union about which I have concerns, as have many others, for some time. I have been a campaigner since 1973 when we joined Europe. The ideas and views, as Deputy Haughey mentioned earlier, went back to the late Seán Lemass and many other political leaders here aspired to this, worked for this and helped to bring it about. We...
- Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I support this Bill. I compliment Deputies Jack Chambers and Jim O'Callaghan. We can call them the Jack and Jill or Jack and Jim or whatever show but fair dues to them. We urgently need to address the expanding problem of gambling and specifically the problem of online gambling addiction. It is a plague on many families. I also salute the work carried out by many groups but especially...
- Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: -----before it is put in place. Agus Deputy Áine Rabbitte freisin.
- Other Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 30. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures her Department is taking to support pop-up Gaeltachts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19805/18]
- Other Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I will indeed be brief. Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Ba mhaith liom a rá leis an Teachta Broughan, let the hare sit. I want to ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures her Department is taking to support Pop-up Gaeltachts, and if she will make a statement on the matter.
- Other Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Either. Mixed, más é do thoil é.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He did not get an answer.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not funny.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: A pilot is right.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Even a pilot is not safe when he drinks.