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- Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government contains specific mention to sustainable rural housing. I ask the Tánaiste who was previously Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and indeed environment about the European Court of Justice directive of February 2005. The Minister, Deputy Murphy, recently said in the Seanad that county development plans were not to be amended in...
- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this Bill, which proposes to give further effect to the EU's GDPR and to transpose the 2016 directive on data protection in terms of law enforcement functions. Aspects of the GDPR that are dealt with in the Bill include the rights of data subjects, the establishment of a new data protection commission, the regulation of data controllers and...
- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat. Tá an Bille anseo. I am on the Bill.
- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: No, I am not. I am being deadly serious. The Minister of State knows all of this as well as I do. The issue of powerful people having such sway in the media has been a problem for some considerable time, not just today, inné nó an tseachtain seo caite. Tá sé ag fás le a lán blianta. It was happening long before the reality of online communications and...
- Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I thought so.
- Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Messiah has arrived.
- Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Vótáil.
- Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak briefly about this matter. All of us in the House want to see the comprehensive provision of sex and relationships education that is fact-based and responsible, but the recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, to which the Bill refers, go much further. The committee's report reads as follows:The Committee recommends a...
- Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Cuirim fáilte roimh Susan agus roimh an chlann anseo inniu. I am delighted on behalf of the Rural Independent Group to be able to pay tribute to an t-iar-Theachta Peter Mathews, a man of principle above anything else. He was principled to his fingertips. He was quiet but determined. Above all, he was respectful of all sides and of all people. He died aged 65, unfortunately. He had...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: In the context of the commitment in the programme for Government to transparency and accountability, does the Taoiseach, as Head of Government, think it acceptable that the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, attended the launch of Amnesty International Ireland's repeal the eighth campaign? As the Taoiseach is aware, the Minister for Health, who he appointed, has a responsibility to all the...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Is that so?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: What about the illegal funding that Amnesty received and will not pay back?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach has not answered the question.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: What is the point in having a Taoiseach if we cannot get answers?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: What about the Ceann Comhairle?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It will take a while to get the answer.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, welcome the debate and thank I Deputy McConalogue for tabling the motion. I welcome our friends in the Public Gallery who would love to be at home tonight - if it was a fine night - ploughing and sowing and planting seeds. That is what they are good at. When farmers are doing well, Ireland is doing well. Never mind Deputy Bríd Smith talking about cows breaking wind or...
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Rubbish.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is brown at the moment.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He is magaidh faoi.