Results 9,361-9,380 of 20,875 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- 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.
- 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...