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- Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Daylight robbery.
- Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Thank God. How many were there before he left? How many self-employed subcontractors were working for him?
- Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He supplied that many, but had no help from the previous Government, of which Deputy Humphreys was a member from 2011 to 2016. Thankfully, there are 700 jobs left. However, there were a couple of thousand jobs at one point, not counting all of the self-employed people. Throughout the country, there are many laws for the little people but no laws for the others. Consider the situation...
- Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The ducks as well but there is too much ducking now. That is what is wrong. There is only one duck farm left in Emyvale but there are a lot of people ducking around here and in these organisations. They think they cannot be found. They are not being found and will not be found because no one is looking for them, apart from the eejits outside here paying taxes. I do not mean that in a bad...
- Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am not sure if Deputy Healy-Rae is coming. Déanaim comhghairdeachas leis an Aire freisin. I congratulate her on her appointment and wish her well. One never knows where I might bump into her. The last time it was down in the sleepy Nire valley over the holidays. She was most welcome there. I hope she had a good stay at what is a small business of a great business woman. God...
- Shortage of Teachers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I too compliment an Teachta Byrne on tabling this motion. I welcome the students who are in the Gallery. This is a developing situation. It did not happen today or yesterday and the Department should have seen it coming. I attended a briefing of the education and training board, ETB, in Tipperary recently and the shortages there, especially in Irish, mathematics and sciences, are...
- Shortage of Teachers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Men, just to be classifying them.
- Shortage of Teachers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Coppinger never makes a point of order.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2016: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I also thank the witnesses for their time and the report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2016: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I feel it incumbent upon me as a rural Teachta Dála to support the Chair on that issue. Mr. Cardiff commented that he has not seen a rise in the number of young farmers following the European Union's investment. That is true. I am a farmer myself, and it is a battle for us to keep our young people in farming. The first reasons for this are the anti-social hours and seven-day working...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2016: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2016: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I was asked to comment. I was late in arriving, and maybe I missed some of the discussion. Senator Richmond might not be interested in rural Ireland, but I am.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2016: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is very relevant, especially when the Taoiseach, Senator Richmond's party colleague, said last week that he would ask the IFA about problems with computer glitches. Perhaps the Senator might address that instead of picking on me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2016: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is very relevant to the accounts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2016: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Through the Chair, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2016: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Our guest mentioned that he was disappointed with the uptake of young farmers vis-à-visthe EU funding, so it is very relevant. Unless we want the barren wasteland Senator Richmond wants outside the Pale.
- Topical Issue Debate: Water Services Infrastructure (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am very disappointed. I spoke to the Minister of State after the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, of which I am a member, received analysis of the project which suggests that Irish Water's position on the project is rife with basic mathematical errors and misleading statements about its necessity. The document we received from Kennedy Analysis makes for...
- Topical Issue Debate: Water Services Infrastructure (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Please.
- Topical Issue Debate: Water Services Infrastructure (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: And those from Dublin.
- Topical Issue Debate: Water Services Infrastructure (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Leaking both ways.