Results 9,761-9,780 of 20,875 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Citizens' Assembly: Motion (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am talking to the Ministers of State so I would appreciate if they would be ag éisteacht. They should listen to what I am going to say.
- Citizens' Assembly: Motion (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They might not like what I am saying but it is a fact. It fell down around their ears. The Government was caught napping and the people are out there waiting for it to deal with it when it comes back to the people. This is the Oireachtas and people are elected to it to deal with these issues. The legislation will decide whether we take away the last vestiges of humanity and respect that...
- Citizens' Assembly: Motion (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am talking about the process.
- Citizens' Assembly: Motion (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: A set-up.
- An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I intend to call a quorum because it is disgraceful-----
- An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: -----that on an issue like this, there are so few Teachtaí-----
- Citizens' Assembly: Motion (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am happy to be able to speak this evening. I understand the point about Storm Emma and ensuring health and safety in the House. I am on the Business Committee and I supported the closure. However, I have a major issue with the Citizens' Assembly. This House is the citizens' assembly. Is é seo an top line, mar a deirtear, an Dáil agus an Seanad, and the people elect us. ...
- European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I too am happy to speak on this issue. I note from the agenda highlights issued by the European Council that the spring focus will be on economic affairs. Heads of State or Government will also look at a number of the other pressing issues, including taxation and foreign affairs. Finally, EU leaders will also discuss Brexit. That is strange. I would have thought we would demand that...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome the Taoiseach back from his travels and his little fireside tales about planning permissions and other issues. As reported by Lara Marlowe and Pat Leahy in The Irish Times, the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, was asked what would happen if the proposed referendum on the eighth amendment was lost. She replied: "The people who have...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: That answer is pure useless, toothless and fruitless, for that matter. Instead of a €5 million spin machine, would the Taoiseach install mirrors in his office and get a gramophone that will tell him that he is in power, in government, that it was not like that when he got here, that he has been in power for seven years now and should stop blaming the past for everything? He should...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I do not have that privilege.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Seven years.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach has not done much in seven years. He is a bad case. Someone should take him away.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I do not know where the Fianna Fáil press office is. They do not let me in there anymore.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: This is World Down Syndrome Day and I know that the Taoiseach will want to join me in sending good wishes to all members of the Down's syndrome community and their families in Ireland and throughout the world. I wish I could say services for people with Down's syndrome and other intellectual disabilities were even adequate in the State, but, sadly, they are not. Under the Disability Act...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On that issue-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: When might that be? I appreciate that.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister says the notice will be very short. How short will it be?
- An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.