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- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Well done. However, I do not know whether the Labour Party will hold on to them owing to this legislation. It is a good job the party did not pass it three weeks ago. If it had done so, it would be minus three seats. I suppose we should not be making light of this. Well done to the Labour Party on its three seats and well done to the successful individuals — God bless them and...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to the Bill. I am just saying I cannot believe a Labour Minister of State would introduce such a trick of the loop - one could not call it anything else - just to banish 70,000 people from the housing list. During the election campaign, the party stated on a poster that it created 70,000 jobs but someone wrote “in Canada” on one of them. This Bill represents...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, support Deputy Ó Fearghaíl's amendment. I cannot believe what is being provided for in this Bill, particularly in this provision. My experience of the RAS in South Tipperary County Council has been good. The officials there do a very good job. What is being proposed is a trick of the loop. The Minister of State could be a magician rather than the Minister of State with...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Like the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes, he has no place to hide.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The heavy gang is back.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Freagair an cheist.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (11 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the new pyrite scandal affecting a newly built school in Balbriggan, County Dublin, that may have to be demolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24911/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Programme (11 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the Construction Contracts Bill has not been implemented three years after the Government promised to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24915/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (11 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 106. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to 30 newly constructed houses that have already been identified to be demolished because of a new pyrite problem in the concrete blocks used in their construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24912/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (11 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 108. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he and his Department are aware of a new pyrite problem regarding concrete products and if so, if the companies involved have notified his officials and have they taken any action in that regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24914/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (11 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 109. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the construction industry is going to be severely effected with the latest new pyrite problem; if payments to sub contractors and cash flow is going to be an issue for the contractors involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24915/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (11 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 107. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason his Department has not introduced new regulations on the quarries producers, the industry who caused the previous pyrite problem and now the same industry which are, in some cases, still supplying contaminated products three years later in the form of contaminated blocks; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Is the Taoiseach aware that several houses were knocked yesterday as a result of the pyrite scandal? We have the Pyrite Resolution Act 2013. It is a shame that the industry has not been regulated or that the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has not taken action to show-----
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: There are a number of houses, a school in Balbriggan and many affected products on the market.
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It could have major consequences for the taxpayer.
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am not debating the issue; I am simply asking about it.
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Where are the regulations?
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is not false anger.
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Who will mind the House?
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: What about goodwill?