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- Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Could the Minister of State not write a note to him?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, I reject any assessment that as rural Independents or any other group, we are anti-democratic. We are not. We are elected by the people, democratic and entitled to do what we want to do. The programme for Government commits to a review of the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act 1962 and the preparation of amendments to it. Where is this legislation? I...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: What about "three strikes and you are out"?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: A hundred times.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: How often?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the Bill?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is up to the Business Committee.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is up to the Business Committee.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: One day at a time-----
- Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill introduced by Deputy Michael McGrath. Any effort to put manners on these so-called vulture funds is very welcome. They are vultures. Deputy Michael Noonan is on record as saying that they were needed at the time when they came here. No vulture funds are needed. The grey crows are not needed in the field of spuds or when a lamb is...
- Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Ba mhaith liom cúpla focal a rá agus ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil leis an gComhaontas Glas. I am delighted to be able to speak here tonight on the motion but I am tired of speaking on such motions, even if it is a very good one. This is because of the inaction of the Government and the inability of this Government, the last one and, to some extent, the one...
- Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Vótáil.
- Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not agreed.
- Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not agreed. Unfortunately, we are just running futa fata here. But for the weather, we would have been discussing this today, tomorrow and late on Thursday night. It did not matter about the Supreme Court decision originally. From what happened last week I knew what was going to happen today. The Government called an emergency meeting of the Business Committee to deal with the...
- Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The foundations are shaky already and they will be much more shaky. We will end up without a commission. The Minister for Health should not laugh. It is a matter of life and death.
- Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We were speaking about red alerts. This is a major red alert. What the Government is doing here is simply disgraceful. It is acting with indecent haste and is pandering to certain elements and groups.
- Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The separation of powers in the context of the courts and the Oireachtas is a fundamental plank of the Constitution. When I saw the first agenda that came out for this week, I knew that everybody was too concerned about the Supreme Court and it was all a rush. As a result of an act of God or whatever, the recent bad weather meant that there was nobody here to draft the business, etc. The...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (6 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the implications that have been imposed on houseowners, landowners and in particular houseowners whose home insurance has substantially increased whereby other insurance providers will not quote homeowners who have now seen their homes brought under the possible 100-year flood map following CFRAM's recent revised national...