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Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Apr 2015)

Mattie McGrath: It should not have been sent.

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Apr 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I am very concerned. I hope he will be like the previous Minister of State, who got rid of the script and spoke honestly. He knows, given where he comes from, that post offices are the vital lifeblood of rural Ireland. Deputy Healy-Rae tabled his topical debate at the same time as me and he is also very anxious about it. I have...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Mattie McGrath: It will relate to promised legislation.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Mattie McGrath: No. I welcome the fact the Taoiseach was in Northern Ireland last week.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Mattie McGrath: My question concerns the Omagh bomb victim families. The Taoiseach has promised on countless occasions to meet them. The legislation in question is the criminal justice (miscellaneous provisions) Bill. When will the Taoiseach meet the families of the Omagh bomb victims? They had open access to him before he became Taoiseach but in the four years since, he has not met them. It is disgraceful.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I have asked them as well.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Mattie McGrath: Not the families of the Omagh bomb victims.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Mattie McGrath: They were never here.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Mattie McGrath: To whose satisfaction?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Report Implementation (1 Apr 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts his Department is making to assist families and persons in mortgage distress and owing arrears, and those facing repossession and eviction from the family home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13066/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Debt (1 Apr 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the banking sector is acting with sufficient haste and concern to address the rising levels of mortgage debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13067/15]

Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion [Private Members] (31 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear

Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion [Private Members] (31 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: Europe is not happy with it.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: It might help the Taoiseach's canvassers when they are trying to find the people.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I am just reading something the Government announced today.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: The Government might bring the voting age down to 14 for them.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: It is the Taoiseach's spin doctors who are confused so.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: Tarlaíonn sé gach lá.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: What is so funny?