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- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)
Mattie McGrath: There are 25 seconds left.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is a Punch and Judy show.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order------
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The officials' boss is the Minister. The whole lot of it was a mess so they were all responsible. I was addressing both the Minister and the officials.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I did not.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It was not personal.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: No. I was always told to make haste slowly.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am getting there.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: No. I welcome the current trade of approximately €8 billion between Ireland and China.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: That is great, but milk is not a big part of it. I think the milk could be gone sour by the time it gets out there.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Who said one time that we would choke England with butter and drown it with milk? I think it was a Fine Gael Minister for Agriculture years ago. He was one of the Blueshirts. I think it was Risteárd from Tipperary, but I cannot think of his full name now. The Ceann Comhairle might be able to give his second name. It was before my time, but it will come back to me. Everyone knows...
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Did I?
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Do you know what I mean?
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Good man.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Just as well.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: He is tweeting there as part of the leadership election campaign. He is seeing how many votes have changed or switched for his master. I can see him on the phone. He is not listening to me anyway. They do not listen. That is the problem. They paid the price for not listening to the people during their five-year term before the formation of this Government. I have referred to the...
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: If the Ceann Comhairle is referring to Fianna Fáil as home, I often fleetingly go in and out of it but I always maintain that it was a case of them leaving me rather than me leaving them. When they are ready to come back to my standards for the Fianna Fáil Party, of which my father was a founding member, I will be ready, willing and able to take up the cudgels. Having said that, I...
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I know the Ceann Comhairle is independent now but in his previous incarnation, we were good friends. I hope that we will stay friends and, in that vein, I will not keep the Ceann Comhairle here too long tonight. We are discussing the Asian Investment Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017. One could nearly make a mistake, given what Fine Gael did yesterday, through the Minister for...
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I support this Bill, as I do with anything that tries to facilitate or help accommodate companies. That is welcome and needed. I do not buy into the mantra that we saw with the previous debate with the attack on investments in nursing homes and the tax breaks in that area. We must have incentives to attract these companies. The Minister knows how hard it is to attract companies,...
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I did not interrupt the Deputy.