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Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am almost finished. Shame on them. The Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, has known this since 2008 and 2009. He was told it by Jerry Beades, but no, he is a pariah, do not talk to him-----

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They did not want to be seen walking around with him. I want to praise Deputy McGuinness for the work he is doing in the finance committee. Somebody has to expose them and bring this out. This trickery and robbery should have been gone with the Black and Tans.

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Administration (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is cheap labour.

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Administration (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, compliment Deputy Breathnach on being involved in the mid-Louth Leader programme as well as our Leas-Cheann Comhairle, Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher, who is also involved. Any one of us who is worth our salt in the community have been impressed by the CE schemes. However, it is a poor relation and is considered cheap labour for the Government. These supervisors need to be...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Administration (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving us the opportunity to discuss this matter and I thank Deputy Calleary for organising the debate. I have been involved with a CE scheme since 1988. I recall meeting Mr. Ruairí Quinn, the then Minister for Labour in 1990. There are huge issues with these schemes and I have called for decades for an audit to be done as to their value. As Deputies...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is pass the Paschal.

European Council: Statements (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak about this interesting meeting. I note from the report by President Donald Tusk to the European Parliament following the meeting that he is “obsessed by unity". This is interesting. He must be having a very anxious time of it when we recall the recent outcome of the Austrian election. Austria now has a very young president who swept to power on a mandate of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Professor O'Keane made an extraordinary statement in her opening remarks, to my mind in any event, when she said, "I would go further and say that the mental health of everybody in Ireland is being damaged by the eighth amendment". Is this a medical opinion or has the professor carried out research, backing up this conjecture, that has assessed the mental health of every person in Ireland?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Professor O'Keane for that. Her statement was very sweeping and I was alarmed by it. I thank the professor for clarifying that it is her own opinion. Would she outlaw gendercide where a woman may seek to abort her baby simply because the baby she is carrying is a girl?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I accept that. I am asking the questions. I am entitled to ask.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: This is the usual banter we get. This is why the people outside are so annoyed. We cannot ask our questions. I did not interrupt anybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Could we have a small bit of decorum, please? To follow on from my question, according to an article in The Economistin 2010 this practice has led to a massively skewed sex ratio in China, India, Taiwan, Singapore and elsewhere. The head of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, BPAS, has said it should be legalised in Britain because women should be free to make the choice. I refer to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The professor may feel uncomfortable but I am entitled to ask the questions. We had a sweeping statement that everybody's mental health is affected by the eighth amendment. I was very uncomfortable with that. Thousands of people in the country are very uncomfortable about it. Professor O'Keane stated that she is not representing her profession here today and that her views on all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No, I am here to ask questions. Could I get an answer to my question please? Professor O'Keane can ask me a question any time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: But if she does not want to answer the questions-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We were to have Professor Casey here today. She is also a very eminent psychiatrist. Her letter was not read into the record by the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am making this point because I asked during private session to have the letter read into the public record. That should have happened because Professor Casey had elaborated on many views that are the opposite of those of Professor O'Keane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: When?