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- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Government lobbied for more all the time.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Government is in bed with the banks.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He likes tweeting.
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: IBEC. It is big business. I see them around here all the time. I know them from a former incarnation. Some of them are in the Construction Industry Federation. They are not interested in the little people. We have to recover na daoine beaga. It is na teaghlaigh go léir agus na feirmeoirí go léir who will recover it. They are on the ground every day, all day, 365 days a...
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister. Normally the Minister nods when she agrees with me but she was doing something else so I thought she was saying she did not agree with me. That is grand. We will accept that. As I said, a quarter of all employees working nine to 18 hours per week are in wholesale or retail with another 17% working in health. A significant proportion of those who work 19 to 35 hours...
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to contribute on this Bill. I wish everyone a happy Valentine's Day, although it is getting into the night.
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister might be in a hurry home to her partner and kids. I wish them all well. In fairness to the Minister, she seems to be grappling with some of the issues since getting her new post. There are many to be grappled with. I also hope that the staff - I am sorry, as I did not see the female staff because the Acting Chairman was blocking my view - and anyone else who wants to...
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I know, but normally flowers are for the ladies. It works both ways. It is a two-way street, like this Bill. Like employers and employees, it is a two-way street, and the grass grows in the middle.
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We are getting there. The issue of protection for workers who are in precarious work situations is of deep concern to us all. We are all aware from the amount of contact that we have received on this matter that the levels of uncertainty that zero-hour contracts create for workers and families is enormous and it is long overdue to be addressed. I wish the Minister well in that regard....
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: One morning when we were walking over a bridge, we were lucky to get to the other side alive, but we did, thank God, and we are here to tell the tale. It is an excellent institution. Why do we constantly commission reports? I dealt with the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, today regarding cardiac services in the south east in University Hospital Waterford. That was another report....
- Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I too am happy to speak to the Bill. I salute Deputy Pearse Doherty for the excellent work he has done on the issue and the manner in which he has tried to hold financial institutions to account. The Bill seeks to extend the application of Part 111C of the Central Bank Act 1942 to provide the Central Bank with the power to conduct inquiries into the suspected provision of false or...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: At the DoE.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Boat check.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Despite what has gone on here today with the national planning framework and broadband last week, the programme for Government is specific in its support for rural Ireland. However, I do not know what is going on in the Cabinet room, especially when I read reports today about the latest proposals of the Minister, Deputy Ross. I see opposite me the Ministers, Deputies Naughten, Flanagan,...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The question is as follows. Where is the rural proofing? What are we trying to do? Criminalise parents and criminalise all the people of rural Ireland? We do not have Luas, buses, DART or all the other things.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Government cannot even get the new Luas across O'Connell Bridge. It does not know what it is doing. Ministers are in a cocoon inside in the Cabinet room.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I do not know what kind of water they are drinking or what medicine they are on, but this is bizarre, daft and unworkable, and an attack on rural Ireland.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Please, come on.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am asking where the Minister, Deputy Flanagan and his colleagues are.