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- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: -----Big Phil, the former Minister. We called him the enforcer. He left a mess behind. He is on his fat pension now in the EU and he comes back an odd time to the ploughing match and other events and tells us what he is doing for Ireland. It is a whole unmitigated mess. I opposed the setting up of Irish Water with might and main because there was no need for it in the first place. I...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is still here. Freedom of speech and bullying-----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, you can.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am dealing with free speech-----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: -----and freedom to work, and the right to work and the right to a fair day's pay for a day's work. I am just saying that people have to meet tonight in a yard of a hotel because two hotels have denied them entry because they are being bullied by members of a party that are here who took down 32 posters the other night.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The youth branch from Trinity College took down the posters and put it up on Facebook.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am not. You are the Acting Chairman. I believe in free speech.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I will.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: You are, so let me continue please.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, and I am talking about the right to exercise freedom of speech. We live in a democracy, thankfully.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am, but you are taking my time.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: No, it is not. You are talking.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I will do my best.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: They are not all in favour of repeal.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that. I would like to ask about the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016. The Taoiseach said on Tuesday that parental choice will be central to any school divestment policy. Can the Minister for Education and Skills confirm that this is also his policy? Can he confirm that the wishes of parents and guardians, rather than any political ideology, will be foremost when...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: What about parents?
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I compliment the proposers of the motion. I must ask the Minister of State some questions. Houses were recently offered by NAMA to many councils. In a reply to me, however, Tipperary County Council stated that the NAMA units referred to were not appropriate for use by local authorities because a high number of them were not up to standard or did not meet construction regulations while...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (27 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome our guests here today and thank them for their time. What are their views of the preamble to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which states: ". . . the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth"? This clearly states that a child is to be considered a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (27 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: This man has performed many hundreds of abortions and changed his mind and saw fit to produce that video.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (27 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I wanted to put it on the public record here. I do not think I am over my time.