Results 10,161-10,180 of 20,735 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: If it will still be open.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, the Minister had to leave but he is back in the Chamber. We were not circulated with a script earlier, and we were not circulated with scripts yesterday for two or three statements. I asked all the staff here and I know it is not their fault. Scripts were not delivered. It happened twice yesterday while I was here, and it happened again this morning. That is...

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I asked for it at the outset. I was here to make up the quorum as well.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It shows contempt for the House. It is the third time this has happened in two days.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It happened today, and twice yesterday.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is not your fault, a Cheann Comhairle. It is the arrogance of the Ministers who wander into the House without a script.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is. What else is it? It is unacceptable.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, it shows contempt for the House that there are so few Government Deputies here. I call a quorum.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am happy to speak today on the Paradise Papers. Some weeks ago, I raised the matter of our banks' predatory behaviour with respect to tracker mortgages during Leaders' Questions with An Taoiseach. As I stated at that time, I believe it important to speak on this because such episodes as the tracker mortgage scandal reveal where the real centres of power lie in this State. The...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I withdraw whatever unparliamentary language I used. I did not intend it in that way; I only intended to be jocose. I was not trying to go at them either. Unfortunately, there is a problem with carbon credits in agriculture, as Deputy Fitzmaurice and others have said. This relates to where people are putting in afforestation. They are not allowed keep the credits. Big business has...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is with O'Leary in the grave. That is what the Government wants: nothing in rural Ireland, a wasteland. We have announcement after announcement here and there about this, that and the other. The Minister can smile and laugh all he likes. We have the Minister of State with responsibility for the Gaeltacht, the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Next thing, we will be ploughing up the hill.

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak in the debate. I am delighted to see triúr Airí anseo. Tá súil agam go bhfanfaidh siad agus go mbeidh siad ag éisteacht. The issue of climate change is unavoidable. Whether we are discussing agricultural policy, methane emissions or the use of land for forestry, we simply cannot get away from this debate. I am aware that it one of those...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am a member of the Business Committee and we work very hard. We will not accept the blame. Deputy Ryan is also a member of the committee.

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We can discuss this all day tomorrow. The Minister, Deputy Ross, is dealing with an urgent Bill.

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, but it was Éamon de Valera who founded the party.

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Indeed they do. I ask my Fianna Fáil colleagues to scratch their heads and think more deeply about what they are signing up to in supporting the motion. They should be more than just a mudguard for the Fine Gael-led Government. Mudguards collect dirt and often fall off, are driven over and wrecked. We must have proper consultation and a proper debate on this proposal. A previous...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do and I do my best all the time.

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have no masters, only the man above, thank God. I speak with him every day and he supports and sustains me, thank God. I have no masters in the political hierarchy telling me to do this or that. Mention has been made of the Ministers of State, Deputies Halligan and Finian McGrath. They are like spinning tops now because they have spun so much from the policies they stood for when I...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not know what one might call them. We were pretty jumpy two weeks ago and we thought the water pipe had burst and was severed forever but the supply has been mended for the moment. The frost is coming and it could freeze the water and the pipe could easily shatter. We could be out knocking on doors in the few weeks after Christmas but the Government would be happy enough to have...