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- Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not a blank cheque. It protects people.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is simple.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government is explicit in defending people in their homes. KBC Bank hired a team of former British army members to enter forcibly the home of the Smith family at 9 a.m. yesterday in Balbriggan. The householder was physically assaulted and ejected from the house along with his family. This is the same bank that put 2,500 people on the wrong tracker mortgage rate, resulting...
- Severe Weather Conditions: Statements (27 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I welcome the statement and it is a pity we do not have more time. The FCI has 795 contractors at the ready, which was communicated to the national strategy team yesterday. They should be used because a spin machine cannot distribute grit. We need constant updates and concern to be shown for the people of rural, as well as urban, Ireland.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Not at all.
- Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Did he not go to Sligo?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: This is the citizens' assembly in here that we got elected to. We will not be dictated to by Sinn Féin bullies.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Citizens' Assembly is out of order. That is the problem. No-one is listening. This is the citizens' assembly; anseo.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course there has, and in charades as well.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: In spite of it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: My question is very much on promised legislation. It is on the whole debacle around recruitment to the Citizens' Assembly by the polling company RED C. At the outset, Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, whom I respect, was full of praise of how the people were recruited. However, we have now found huge flaws in the process. One recruiter recruited seven people who were personally known to him. It...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We need an independent evaluation which should not be carried out by RED C, which has already carried one out. In fact, RED C has accepted that 99 citizens could not represent the whole country in any case. That is its own admission. It is a failure. What is the Minister going to do about it?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is a shambles.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I do not fear it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They will have their say.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: This is a stitch-up.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is a total stitch-up. It is a total farce.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is a stitch-up.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister needs to get his sewing machine out.