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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 (27 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I wanted to put on public record that I want that video to be seen here.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Notwithstanding the Taoiseach's earlier remarks, which I appreciate-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Active service. Go raibh maith agat.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I will. It is you who is delaying me, not myself. The question of referendums is under decision this week in the Cabinet and also the eighth amendment committee, which the Taoiseach mentioned. Will he support me and call on People Before Profit - maybe the Taoiseach did not know this before he answered - to condemn the actions of the Trinity College branch, which publicly destroyed 32...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is promised legislation. We have a referendum coming up. Unbroken Ireland is a group of rape survivors who have chosen to proceed with their pregnancies and who campaign to remove the stigma and taboo surrounding the debate on this issue. That other group wants to shut down free speech. Unbroken Ireland is making an address in the AV room tomorrow.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: They tore down the posters and pictures on Facebook-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Will the Taoiseach ask the Garda Síochána to deal with it?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: He is a great observer.
- UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, am happy to speak on this very important issue. We had our guest speaker here last week to address Members of both Houses in this Chamber at a meeting chaired by the Ceann Comhairle and the Cathaoirleach of the Seanad. We all welcome the Taoiseach's request to Prime Minister May that the UK urgently clarify what approach it is seeking to adopt regarding Northern Ireland. It is...
- UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I put the question to him and asked about the attitude of senior Commission people when the UK decided to have its vote which was very hostile, derogatory, threatening and intimidating. We went on to say last week that we had gotten a few little wallops, as the former Taoiseach said one time. I said it was more like a kick he got. He sustained that wallop. Tá sé imithe anois....
- UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I propose the adjournment of the debate.
- UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The lights have gone out while recording is going on.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: During the programme for Government talks, we and the Rural Independent Group fought hard to get the Government to address regional imbalances in economic activity. What is happening in this area? A recent EUROSTAT report states that over 50% of all economic activity in Ireland is now based in Dublin, the highest rate in any European country. This is a bad development. Dublin cannot cope...
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: That is not the reality. That is a dream: it is a con job.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is only through JobBridge and Turas Nua.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: He missed the flight.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Getting up early in the morning.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I thought the Taoiseach was a practitioner of politics.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I thought he was on the pitch.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Trade Union Membership (26 Sep 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who had a facility for a deduction at source of the payment of membership subscriptions to a union (details supplied) in place on 1 January 2017 in voluntary secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40312/17]