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Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: How could it be unconstitutional? Every excuse is being made.

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: Nonsense.

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: They pretend to.

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: Who gave the banks a veto?

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: "Is mise an múinteoir."

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: He is.

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: The full deck, including the joker.

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: Change the record.

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: The Government keeps going back to it. The electorate will love it for it.

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: One-way traffic.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Council Legislation (3 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 305. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the judicial council will be placed on a statutory footing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8749/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (3 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 446. To ask the Minister for Health the way a person who requires transport to a hospital appointment and cannot make contact with the Health Service Executive transport section may arrange transport; the reason there are such long delays in making contact by telephone with this section; if he will ensure that telephone calls are answered, or return telephone calls made, within a reasonable...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I want assurances that this will not happen again in our democracy. We will be celebrating the centenary of the 1916 Rising next year, but this is the kind of treatment the Government gives to money voted by the Oireachtas for an independent commission. They clearly robbed it and stole it. There are no simpler words. While the Supreme Court did not put that description on it, that was the...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2015)

Mattie McGrath: No one was sacked or questioned on it or anything else.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2015)

Mattie McGrath: This is a democracy.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak to this Bill today. The Bill provides for, among other things, a parent, spouse or partner to acquire guardianship, meaning that, on a practical level, those who care for children will have the legal authority to take decisions on their upbringing. Similarly, the Bill enables a relative to apply for custody of a child in certain circumstances and grandparents...

Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (26 Feb 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I support the Minister's proposals. A transition year student from Cashel is with me this week. On behalf of her school and the young people of Ireland, she presented to the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children on this issue last year and I think she met the Minister. The Minister should stand up to the bullies and intimidation, but big companies should also be checked out. These...

Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I also ask about the promised water services Bill. I heard the Tánaiste say it would be in the next few weeks; I hope so. Will we see an end to the weekly business we have seen? There is a plethora of senior Irish Water officials in the audiovisual room today. It is very difficult to get it now.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I know it is. They will not meet us on the ground where there are sewerage problems and everything else. On the public transport Bill, during Leaders Questions the Tánaiste referred to route 7. At a public meeting in Castlecomer a senior Bus Éireann official gave a commitment that the route 7 service would continue until the end of this academic year. Will that extend south...

Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mattie McGrath: We need clarification on that. I also ask about the heritage (amendment) Bill. Will the farmers, who are literally barred from farming due to the hen harrier, be compensated? They are losing huge-----