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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: They will talk with little pencils. Have I a pencil? No. They will go to their ballot boxes in privacy. The Minister of State knows where they will put their strokes.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Not beside the name of anyone who supported Irish Water. Systems were devised and developed and we have a water supply. When some clever officials got into trouble with the Minister over treatment plants - Bray was the first, but there were others - they decided to portray the ordinary people of Ireland who had septic tanks - many dug them by hand and installed them at huge cost and got...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I would like to return to the substantive issue of section 3 of the Bill. I suppose it is the nuts and bolts of this legislation. We are trying to cobble a system together to cover up a totally mismanaged and ill thought-out strategy. As someone asked here one day, where was Irish Water conceived? Where was the baby delivered? What kind of an infant was it? What kind of beast has it...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: In view of the recent scandal, the Pro Life Campaign has today commented on Mr. Tony O'Brien's remarks about the value of undercover investigators, yet when the Pro Life Campaign learned what the Family Planning Association was doing undercover Mr. O'Brien rubbished it. We are waiting for a report for two years on the issue. Now we are told an audit is required and that no action will be...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: They told people to lie about their condition to their GPs and there was no investigation.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: No. They told people to do that and there was no investigation. This was the same Mr. O'Brien-----
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: People were asked to say untruths to their doctors.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: He should have an idea, as should the Minister beside him. It concerns the investigation by the HSE into what happened at the Family Planning clinics, which gave out untruths to people. It is now being dismissed with no further investigation.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, but there is no investigation and no sanctions, nothing.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: That Department has control.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: You are sinking in it.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: They want rid of Irish Water and the bonuses.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is not happening.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The arrogance is mind-boggling.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Fund-raising.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I saw the Minister approaching the Ceann Comhairle and I heard his utterances. The Ceann Comhairle was not too pleased with what he heard. Where is the openness in that? Is that the legacy the Minister wants? It is some legacy.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Will you repeat that?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Acting Chairman for his forbearance; I am almost finished. Members of the Government are saying they have listened to what people are telling them, but clearly they have not. Do they want to see another march in Dublin in January? Business people trying to make a living in this city could do without that. Gardaí are needed all over the country; they should not all have to...