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- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: This is about IDA Ireland.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: In what year?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Would it not give the Taoiseach a job? There is no better man.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Where is Finian?
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Now lads, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 67. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the funding provided to schools in County Tipperary for the school meals scheme; if he will expand the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24779/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 428. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to conduct a review of all those adversely affected by the Gardasil vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25462/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (30 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 649. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to reconsider the level of funding provided for the early years capital funding scheme 2017; if her attention has been drawn to concerns that the level of funding is insufficient to meet the demands of the sector; the reason private child care facilities are not eligible to access funding under strand 2 of the capital funding...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Policy Reviews (30 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 651. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 676 of 23 May 2017, if, prior to the current matters before the courts, her Department's definition of "child" included the unborn child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25600/17]
- Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Women as well.
- Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Ladies as well.
- Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Will the Minister bring in an outside agency to investigate not only this office but also other regulatory authorities? Will she ensure, or get the Garda Commissioner or the Minister for Justice and Equality to ensure, that if this solicitor came from that stable, the DPP's office-----
- Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Is the Minister anticipating other cases or challenges to cases in regard to the solicitor, who was in the DPP's office for years and who we now find was unable to take a statement?
- Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: This is what is wrong. The problem with the case was their inability to do their work and they are gone off with big pensions. We need somebody from outside. As I asked earlier, is the Minister going to bring in an outside agency to investigate this, root and branch?
- Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am. It is factual. We all know it because it is in the public domain thanks to the judge and the reports. There was a clamp down on the media and it could not be reported. We had three decades of tribunals. I went up to the Taoiseach's office recently about the so-called investigation into NAMA because I object to the chair the judge appointed. It is another cover up. We asked the...
- Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I thought the Minister said seven. There are two yet to be appointed. I heard the Minister's speech and I listened to it. They cannot account for the million illegal breath tests that were never carried out. Who are we going to get honesty from? I want an outside agency brought in from a faraway country to come in here and clean up the ODCE and An Garda Síochána and deal with...
- Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I too am delighted to be able to speak today although it saddens me to have to speak. The former director of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, Mr. Paul Appleby, has declined to comment on whether he will co-operate with the report and audit into the agency's role in the trial of Seán FitzPatrick. Let us think about that. Mr. Appleby has received retirement benefits...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the Minister of State, Deputy Ring?
- Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am also happy to speak on this Bill this evening. There are certain technical elements of the Bill that deal with step payments and reform in that area, and these are important. I want to focus on the elements of the proposed legislation that deal with the importance of open disclosure in health care settings. I heard Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy McEntee, speak...
- Criminal Justice Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister made clear that this will be applied for only serious offences involving adults. While I agree with some of the sentiments expressed by Deputy Clare Daly regarding not-for-profit organisations, I do not know if such organisations would be up to the task. As a Deputy representing a rural constituency, I believe electronic tagging must be used because, as gardaí have...