Results 11,381-11,400 of 20,894 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- 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.
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: South Tipperary General Hospital has been operating continuously on a full capacity protocol for the last 16 months. According to the hospital manager, they have been unable to de-escalate the protocol given the persistent and chronically high numbers of patients on trolleys. I thank and praise the front-line staff of doctors and nurses and everyone else there. There are recent and...
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I know that, ar an mbóthar. Ag lorg vótaí. I wish him well in that also, but will the Taoiseach ask the Minister to bring some bit of sanity to this? I am getting comments from the side now and I have no earpiece like the Taoiseach. When the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Varadkar, was in the Department of Health he did not do a whole lot there either. This is a...
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: What was that?
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach gets my meaning.