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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...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: That is disgraceful coming from the Minister. The emotional terrorism is coming from the Minister and from Mr. O'Brien, with people on trolleys in hospitals surrounded by lights and noise and vending machines. If it was a war then, the Minister would be charged with war crimes. How dare he? The Minister is worse than Mr. O'Brien by saying "He was entirely correct". The Minister is his...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: They are not allegations. He said they were calling-----

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: But you said, I said, he said, she said-----

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am saying on the record of the House that-----

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am not being smart with you, I am continuing-----

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: You are interrupting my time now.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Well you are interrupting my time. The Minister said-----

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He is only short of it.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Fine. If the cap fits, wear it.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister said a while ago that he had no interest or business in insurance. The businesses we met with today have had their insurance increase threefold, fourfold, and fivefold. It is outrageous. This is happening because of the lawyers, the courts, the whole system, the merry-go-round, the fat cats and the claims they give out. If a person in England breaks his or her finger, there is...