Results 10,721-10,740 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: How dare Senator Buttimer? Excuse me, Chair. Can I finish, Chair?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I will be very brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I do not want any sideshows. This is terrible. Thankfully, it is public and the public can see the tempers of members and what we have to put up with. I would have thought, if we needed legal advice here in the committee in public, that we could adjourn and get the legal advice in private, and go back again. That is often done in procedural committees.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: But sure, we can do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I oppose the vote on removing Article 40.3.3°. I have always had my suspicions about bias in this committee. The overwhelming vote in favour of removing Article 40.3.3° means the genie is out of the bottle. It is an insult to some of the eminent people who are due to come in and make a presentation to us that we have already decided to do this. We have dismissed some of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I ask the Chair to allow me to speak without interruption. I am depending on her to defend me, not to interrupt. She did not interrupt anybody else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Not while I was here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to the point of equal rights for all people, which applies to both mother and baby. If somebody is elected by the people, whether it is to fix potholes in roads or not, they are entitled to be here. Just because somebody dispenses tablets, or something else, to people it does not mean they have a better right to be here. The people decide and they will decide in a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It went on for an hour.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I understood that we had to get legal advice. Other committees go into private session when they need advice so why could we have not done that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is standard practice.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Smoked salmon.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding changes to the slurry spreading closed season deadline; if there is now provision for increased flexibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44096/17]
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Of course Galway is awake. They won the all-Ireland. They are alive and awake and are not going to accept this any more because it has gone on for far too long. All governments have paid lip service, but the permanent government are here, with their hands on the handlebars, and it would take a jackhammer to get them off. They do not want to give anything to rural Ireland. Let the...
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: When are the jobs coming to rural Ireland? I spoke to people from the IDA in Washington in America last St. Patrick's Day. I was told that they were not even coming as far as Kildare, Naas, or Meath. I will check the stats.
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: One can have all the stats and all the reports. The national planning framework is a bad business. I do not accept the national planning framework people. Who are they? It is all jobs for the boys - retired county managers and retired senior officials. There are very few ordinary people, like shopkeepers or small business people from Tipperary, Kerry, Cork or any other place. No, they...
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Show us the money. Tabhair dúinn an airgead.
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: There are not many of the Minister of State's colleagues here anyway.
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Ar an chéad dul síos, déanaim comhbhrón le clanna na daoine a fuair bás inné. They were Ms Clare O'Neill, whose home was not too far away from me in Aglish, Contae Port Láirge, Mr. Fintan Goss in County Louth and Mr. Michael Pyke. I know the Pyke family and express my sympathy to all the families. The Pyke family is hard-working and decent, and Michael's...
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: That is wishful thinking.