Results 10,561-10,580 of 20,735 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am one of those.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I will table a motion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: If this is not intimidation, I do not know what is. May I speak, please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I indicated that I wished to speak. We are not disrespecting the Chair's ruling. We waited all day for her to obtain advice, which is fair enough and which we accept, but for her to take umbrage at us questioning the reasons behind-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, you are.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Someone threatened to lose his temper. Will we be intimidated? Will we be kneecapped or something? That is disgraceful.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Did the Minister attend the bank's extraordinary general meeting?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Two week ago I raised in this House the matter of the predatory behaviour by our banks with regard to tracker mortgages. As I said at the time, most of the bank robbers are now deep in the boardrooms and not on the streets as used to be the case. I believe it was important to speak on the issue, because episodes like the tracker mortgage scandal reveal where the real centres of power lie in...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach did not provide me with any information about the former Minister, Deputy Noonan, and how people went to Revenue to disclose their offshore dealings. Before he gets carried away with the OECD saying how good we are with tax compliance, the dogs in the street know what is going on. They also know what is going on in the banks because ordinary families have been terrorised and...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: For a strange reason, I will support this amendment. I opposed the Irish Water setup might and main from its first day. It was a big dream in the sunrise or sunset clause - I do not know which to call it - of the former Minister, Big Phil the enforcer, the then Deputy Hogan.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. He is now Commissioner Hogan, with his pension in Europe for the devastation that he wreaked on the Irish people not only through this, but also through the abolition of local democracy. He thought that he could walk on water. That is why he called it "Irish Water", I suppose. He thought that it was his water and he could walk on it, but he found out quickly that he could not. A...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: They say, tús maith, leath na h-oibre. However, we need to recognise and give more recognition to the people who have set up their own business, whether they are farmers, shopkeepers, undertakers, plasterer or plumbers. They are entitled to get some security. I honestly believe they would not mind paying a little extra in PRSI for some kind of insurance policy, because they have...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am not asking the Minister to charge them.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports she is putting in place to support self-employed persons if, for example, the business fails or closes due to unexpected sickness or ill health. [43366/17]
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I draw the attention of the Minister to the plight of the self-employed. We know how important they are in this country, especially in the recovery, in keeping employment going and keeping the coffers filled through the payment of taxes. Could the Minister outline what the Government is doing to support those very people when they get into difficulty, when they fall ill or get an injury?...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: There is a totally unlevel playing field. The recession brought that home to so many. The Minister mentioned people who were not able to continue to get work but many of them did work and could not get paid for it and their businesses folded as a result. Such people were great generators of employment and they had good employees. They were the only people who were left with nothing and...
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I asked a question about tagging.
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: In the programme for Government there is a clear commitment to reform and strengthen the legal system in an effort to support the victims of crime. Will the Taoiseach or the Minister for Justice and Equality clarify whether elements of the Criminal Justice Act 2017, formerly the Bail (Amendment) Bill, have not been implemented? I believe that is the case. I raise this issue in the wake of a...
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: In North Korea.