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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The facts are there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Can I correct the record please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I never impugned the name of the good clerk. Why would I? This is typical Sinn Féin bullying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I thanked the clerk for supplying names, which he did. I made up my own mind as to who they were or what they stood for. I did not expect the clerk to do so and I would not have asked him to. Only members of a party that does not allow free speech would even think that I might have said that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I asked him for a list of names. I would never impugn this committee and I want that accusation withdrawn. This is coming from a Deputy who showed his teeth to me last week and told me that he was losing his temper. What am I supposed to do? Sit down and be frightened?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It happened.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: How is the temper today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: No way in the world. I was having an exchange with the Chairman and Deputy O'Brien said that he was losing his temper. It had nothing to do with him and I was not engaging with anybody else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I never impugned the clerk. I thanked him for his work in supplying the names and I hope that he can accept that. This is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I hope he can accept that. He has had a lot of engagement with my office on this and I thanked him for that. I never said that he said who these people were. We can make up our minds. Are we not allowed to think for ourselves?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: When we leave here-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I have listened to every committee and to every guest who has come in here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am the side-show here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Can we return to the matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I propose that we do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Likewise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Again, I thank Ms McDermott for coming in today. We were complaining earlier about people not coming in. That is their right but Ms McDermott has certainly brought the other side to the committee today and I am delighted to learn things about Hugh's House and A Perfect Gift. I was not aware of those organisations and supports. Some people say it is cruel to ask a woman to go through with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I did not use the word "force". I said "ask". Perhaps Ms McDermott can speak a bit about the harm that occurs when we continue to describe very sick unborn babies as having fatal foetal or life-limiting conditions or conditions incompatible with life. She knows that after a group travelled to Geneva and lobbied, and I introduced a Private Members' Bill, the HSE changed the language it used...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Would Ms McDermott agree with a previous-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: No, it is another question. We were told by an expert here some weeks ago that she felt the eighth amendment was damaging the mental health of every person in this State - man, woman and child. How is Ms McDermott's son doing now? Is he in secondary school? Ms McDermott might be allowed to read a poem if that is possible. I would like to hear it - later or any at stage.