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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: If a lie is mentioned, it is the Chairman's duty to make sure that word is not used in a committee of the House. I did not tell any lies and I do not intend telling any lies. I intend to try to speak about what I feel. I want to speak like others without fear of intimidation and bullying and being called a liar. It is profoundly disturbing that this is going on and it is not easy. If we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have done that, but I want to clarify the remarks of Deputy O'Connell. Is she going to accuse me of telling lies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No, I want them withdrawn, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I think she did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Are we going to have decorum or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Of course. I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No, it is a matter for the record of the committee to be corrected.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The blacks will confirm it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, I respect that totally.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I would not expect the professor to know the exact details, but I had a lady in the audiovisual room in this House, and I invited the other members opposite along. She was the victim of an aborted abortion and was left on a window sill or ledge to die. Thankfully, she survived. A caring nurse passing by picked her up. She came in to tell her story. There are many cases and there is...

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Commitments to improve child welfare services are outlined on page 75 of the programme for Government. This morning the organisation One in Four stated it was extremely worried that dangerous offenders might be continuing to abuse children, even though they had been brought to the attention of Tusla. When I raised this matter with the Taoiseach recently, I told him that Tusla had received a...

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They can vote if they come back.

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They are all Fine Gael dogs. They cannot bark. They are muzzled.

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I also was born and reared on a farm. We had every type of animal one might think of, including cows, pigs, sheep, dogs and hens. Reference has been made tonight to good animal husbandry in 99.9% of farms. Someone referred to mental health issues, and it is possible that on an odd occasion there is cruelty because of different pressures. I have great respect for Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan,...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am happy to speak to the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017. The new Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, introduced the Bill on Second Stage before the recess in July. I wish her well in her new role. Section 4 has generated significant controversy. It provides that, "From the beginning of 2018, a quarterly...

Other Questions: Animal Welfare (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: In August, I asked the Minister and the Department to consider introducing more effective penalties to deal with the mistreatment and abandonment of horses. I spoke after the Minister told me in a reply to a parliamentary question that the Department had spent €4.5 million. Today, the Minister has said it is €4.3 million so €200,000 is missing. This is with regard to...

Other Questions: Animal Welfare (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: And hurling.

Other Questions: Animal Welfare (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not accept the Minister's answer good nor bad. Farmers as we all know are excellent at animal husbandry and they are caring, and they are penalised severely with traceability and everything else. We have seen sulkies driven by horses that tumble upside down on the road and the horses are left there for dead and dying. It happened in Cashel this year, it happened at Horse and Jockey...

Other Questions: Animal Welfare (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I know it is, but we need to wake up here and see we must have fair play for everybody who treats an animal and everybody who mistreats an animal.

Other Questions: Animal Welfare (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true.