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Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The foundations are shaky already and they will be much more shaky. We will end up without a commission. The Minister for Health should not laugh. It is a matter of life and death.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We were speaking about red alerts. This is a major red alert. What the Government is doing here is simply disgraceful. It is acting with indecent haste and is pandering to certain elements and groups.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The separation of powers in the context of the courts and the Oireachtas is a fundamental plank of the Constitution. When I saw the first agenda that came out for this week, I knew that everybody was too concerned about the Supreme Court and it was all a rush. As a result of an act of God or whatever, the recent bad weather meant that there was nobody here to draft the business, etc. The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (6 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the implications that have been imposed on houseowners, landowners and in particular houseowners whose home insurance has substantially increased whereby other insurance providers will not quote homeowners who have now seen their homes brought under the possible 100-year flood map following CFRAM's recent revised national...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister sat down.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Government is filibustering now and wasting time.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: While we all support Deputy Michael McGrath’s and other people’s Private Members’ Bills to deal with the sale of loans to the vulture funds, will the Taoiseach support the Bill submitted by Deputies McGuinness, MacSharry and myself last week, the National Housing Co-Operative and Fair Mortgage Bill, compiled by Master of the High Court, Edmund Honohan. We saw what...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: They have all failed utterly.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: At the expense of families.

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The vulture funds get their hands on them.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences Data (28 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug driving arrests made by county in the south eastern Garda division in the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10341/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Data (28 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of providing free legal aid and free civil aid over the past seven years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10342/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Legal Cases (28 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason his Department is appealing a judgment (details supplied) in the Supreme Court concerning the rights of the unborn child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10365/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Legal Cases Data (28 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status and number of legal representatives his Department has engaged in the appeal of a judgment (details supplied) in the Supreme Court. [10366/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (28 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the contact or meetings he or his Department have had with members of a group (details supplied) in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10363/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Meetings (28 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 208. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the contact or meetings she or her Department have had with members of a group (details supplied) in the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10364/18]

Motor Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (27 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: They are. The Government has a fair lot of them over there. Where are they tonight? They are the national liabilities. Almost one in ten saw their premiums rise by more than 50% year-on year. Who is telling the truth here? I suggest that it is the hard-pressed motorist who has to face these challenges day in day out. The same is true of the hard-pressed business man, shopkeeper and...

Motor Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (27 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Protocol my backside. Rubbing fat butter into a fat sow's you-know-what. That is what the Government is doing. There are cartels in the insurance industry. There are cartels in the banks. We saw what they did last night with the "Black and Tans" out in Balbriggan.

Motor Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (27 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We have cartels in the agricultural industry. We have cartels in everything.

Motor Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (27 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: They are supporting the Minister of State's party. The biggest cartel of all is down in the law courts where the solicitors and barristers are on the gravy train. There are a fair amount of them over there on the Government side of the House as well. They will not change the legislation to stop this. We would love to get emigrants to return but they are fleeced. I have a letter to...