Results 9,441-9,460 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: That is what I said.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Fix the roads.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course he is. I did not say anything.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Wetherspoons.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Shame.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am glad the Leas-Cheann Comhairle clarified that point.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course we have to-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is the same as with us driving and the L-plate drivers. They use discretion all the time. They are not going around like tanks crashing into and rolling over people, as the Minister seems to think. It was the Minister who decided to recommit the Bill and that gave us the opportunity to debate the parameters. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle read out all the items in the amendment and the...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am just making the point that-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am not saying that at all. I just said that if Members wanted to support it, they were not allowed.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am just making the point that we-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: No, none whatsoever.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am acting responsibly. I am making the point that I have stood up at public meetings with others and told people which way I was leaning on this Bill and so have others from other parties, yet now they are doing the exact opposite. That is all I am saying - "To thine own self be true". That is all I can do. I respect that but as I said, a plethora of legislation is being rolled out...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is a sad situation that they do not have the courage to do that much.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Bill would have been long finished if the Deputy was not here. He need not have come at all because he missed the first 15 or 20 minutes of the debate.
- Domestic Violence Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I want to say, on behalf of the Rural Independent Group, that we are supporting the passage of this Bill. For too long this has been tolerated. We need more than this legislation however, as Deputy O'Callaghan and others have said, because this issue needs to be approached from the cradle to the grave including through education in the national and secondary schools and through all other...
- Domestic Violence Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I know that.
- Domestic Violence Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I know the Minister said that but it has been announced several times by Deputies Enda Kenny and Lowry, by the Minister himself and a few more, perhaps including the Minister of State, Deputy Moran. When will we see the sod turning? I had reason to be in the station a couple of times recently and there is no space for anybody.
- Domestic Violence Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (25 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am not inviting any interruption. I am just saying that Garda stations need to be more user-friendly and such issues must be dealt with in a room or space where there are not other people within earshot. As I have said, I am supporting the social workers and all those services that need to be rolled out to deal with people in distress, from whatever side they come, in situations like...