Results 11,221-11,240 of 20,738 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to increase employment levels in the regions and in rural Ireland by more than 100,000 jobs. It took long enough to negotiate the programme. One of the greatest success stories in that regard has been the work of ConnectIreland, which works as part of the Succeed in Ireland programme. However, the draft terms of reference for an...
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak on this issue and thank the Minister for Finance and Taoiseach for the briefings provided to Deputies on the establishment of a commission of investigation into the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. I attended two such briefings with officials. I am surprised by the appointment of the named eminent justice to chair the commission of investigation. A question...
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The judge has been appointed and we are discussing his appointment.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am commenting on the suitability of the individual who will head up the commission of investigation. Why bother discussing this if it is a closed shop?
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is if the Leas-Cheann Comhairle seeks to gag me.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, but we are discussing the commission of investigation. The chairman, who will present the report, has been forced off court cases in the High Court and other courts and has been forced to declare issues he did not declare when he was presiding over cases in which he had a vested interest. That is not right. I do not know what will happen. If we are not allowed to debate this motion,...
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I did not say he had a vested interest in this case. I referred to other cases. I referred to previous incarnations and cases of construction companies and CRH, which supplied lots of concrete to people who went into NAMA. I did not refer to this case but to history.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Will we be satisfied with this? I am being gagged here.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I am. I have been told I cannot question the chairman's suitability for the role.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I will not and I am not happy.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: No. It is only the Government that takes votes for each other; we do not take things at all.
- Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The House is debating the Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017. It seeks for open disclosure by the HSE. That is the basic premise of the Bill, yet up to 500 families have major concerns about their daughters and Gardasil. They are bright, smart and normal people. We have mentioned the savage atrocity across the water, but these girls' lives have been devastated. While I am not saying...
- Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Tuesday’s business shall be No. 4, motion re draft Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017, and No. 13, Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed). Private Members' business shall be No. 29, Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014 - Report and Final Stages, selected by Sinn Féin....
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The priorities are backwards.
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I said no such thing.
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach is hearing things.
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. If I did mention the word "insanity", I did not mean to do so. However, what is going on in the HSE is definitely bordering on insanity. It is proposed to close two facilities, one in Cashel, which is north of Clonmel, and another in Dungarvan, which is south of Clonmel. Both are excellent care facilities. The Taoiseach's spiel of announcements is...
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: A little.