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- 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?
- Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am, but there were mutterings in between also. Perhaps Deputy Anne Rabbitte is on another journey from somewhere else.
- Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I will be sharing a few minutes of my time with Deputy Michael Healy-Rae if he arrives.
- Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak briefly about this issue. When the Minister, Deputy Katherine Zappone, published the third interim report of the commission of investigation into the mother and baby homes in December last year, she made it quite clear that the Government had agreed to a request from the commission for an extension of one year to allow it to complete its fact-finding and information...
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not a red card either.
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I want to go forward anyway, rather than back and forth.
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: In the programme for Government, there was much aspirational talk of supporting our agriculture industry. Goodness knows, with the onset of Brexit and the hiccups we have seen, it is in a perilous state. There is a crisis with every dairy herd in the country having all hands on deck delivering calves, feeding them, looking after them and giving them an early start. There is no export...
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course. The calves are not in it but the aspirations are.
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Good.
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Today's business shall be No. 6, motion re Sixteenth Report of the Committee of Selection, to be taken without debate; No. 7, motion re amendment to Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, back from committee, to be taken without debate; No. 7a, motion re parliamentary questions rota change for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and the Department of Employment...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Peace reigns.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. The programme for Government is supposed to support farm families and businesses. As Deputy Pearse Doherty did with the Tánaiste, I raise the issue of the banks, especially AIB. I have been in contact with a family, Tim and Nora. They have written to the Tánaiste, but ten years later they are going around in circles with the bank. They were overcharged by €90,000...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: -----what is being done by the banks to these people, including many families. They got no response from the Tánaiste when they wrote to him.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: When will the Government take proactive action with these pillar banks that the people bailed out? They are running amok and literally destroying people's lives, which are ending up in suicide, ill health, family separation-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: -----and businesses destroyed.