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- 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.
- Topical Issue Debate: Water Services Infrastructure (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Or illegally. They are going to blow it sky high.
- Topical Issue Debate: Water Services Infrastructure (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: All for Dublin.
- Topical Issue Debate: Water Services Infrastructure (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: To Dublin or to hell.
- Topical Issue Debate: Water Services Infrastructure (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Dublin-centric.
- Topical Issue Debate: Water Services Infrastructure (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: There is plenty of water in east Meath.
- Topical Issue Debate: Water Services Infrastructure (24 Jan 2018)
Mattie McGrath: That will probably never happen.