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- 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.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: What about the post offices?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Government could not wait to get rid of post offices.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He looked after the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, too when he had the foreign affairs brief.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Scant regard.
- Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak on this motion on behalf of the Rural Independent Group. I compliment Fianna Fáil on putting down this motion. Our motion was submitted for next week on this topic but now we find that it has been disallowed because of repetition. This is so important that every Deputy from rural Ireland has to talk about it. The Minister of State, who lives in the south east,...
- Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Excuse me. May I have freedom to address the Chair without interruption, please?