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- 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.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: No, but the Tánaiste knows about the case.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: There are thousands of similar cases.
- National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He is. I thought he was, but I was not sure. He was a visionary. We had such a dedicated public service, but now we cannot organise a contract for a blooming tennis match. We have laws and regulations and procurement rules. Today I had here people with an excellent project. I salute Mr. Jonathan Irwin and others, including in the Irish Prison Service, who came here today. I also salute...
- National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I too am glad to speak about this very important issue. I acknowledge the Minister's presence. This issue is as important as rural electrification was fadó fadó. We had very little at that time but we did have imaginative people and a good vision. The late great Canon Hayes, a founder member of Muintir na Tíre, said it was better to light a candle than to curse the dark. He...
- Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The emotional terrorism is happening on the Minister's watch every day in our hospitals. People cannot sleep because they are on trolleys beside vending machines and there are people walking up and down in the middle of the night. If this were happening in a war, the Government would be brought to the Hague for war crimes on the basis of depriving people of their sleep. They are not...
- Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am glad to be able to speak on this important legislation. For some time, the Bill has been going to and fro and there has been much lobbying in respect of it. I have been here for ten years and many other items of legislation have come before the House. Much of the legislation in question, while very well-meaning, has never been enacted. Members debate the legislation in detail on the...