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- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: In spite of it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: My question is very much on promised legislation. It is on the whole debacle around recruitment to the Citizens' Assembly by the polling company RED C. At the outset, Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, whom I respect, was full of praise of how the people were recruited. However, we have now found huge flaws in the process. One recruiter recruited seven people who were personally known to him. It...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We need an independent evaluation which should not be carried out by RED C, which has already carried one out. In fact, RED C has accepted that 99 citizens could not represent the whole country in any case. That is its own admission. It is a failure. What is the Minister going to do about it?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is a shambles.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I do not fear it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They will have their say.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: This is a stitch-up.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is a total stitch-up. It is a total farce.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is a stitch-up.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister needs to get his sewing machine out.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not a laughing matter.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They were not from every county.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They make public pronouncements.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: One would.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am sharing my time with Deputy Danny Healy-Rae. I will take 20 minutes and Deputy Healy-Rae will take ten. I am delighted to be able to speak this evening on the wonderful aims and big announcements. When I opened the national development plan and looked for references to Tipperary, I found just two instances despite it being the sixth largest county in the State. One was on a map of...
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, I remember standing here back in 2013 when Deputy Kelly was Minister and he and his colleagues destroyed our local democracy and abolished the town councils.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We had no vote on it either.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We had no vote on it.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Now he wants to have his cake and eat it.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He did not have a vote on it either.