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- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: He could not even get a meeting with the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly.
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Could I finish?
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: This is disgraceful. The Minister of State will not debate on the radio or television. He runs, ducks and hides and when I try to make a contribution in the House on time I got from the Technical Group, the Minister of State tries to filibuster and interrupt the debate.
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: He will not debate with me on any radio station but he will go on the radio and say a contract is signed that is not signed. He does not know what a contract is. He should get a lesson
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It will not be long before the Minister of State is thrown out by the people of south Tipperary. They will have their say.
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Could I finish, please?
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is a filibuster.
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: What does the Minister of State represent? He represents nothing only the big farmers, the landed gentry-----
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: -----and the people he gets planning permission for and gets their planning fees waived - his big friends.
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Excuse me. How dare you. I will not be called a rat by anybody and not by you.
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Go back to school and learn some manners, please. Could I finish, please? I want that word withdrawn, please.
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: And I want my time. Two minutes of my time has been wasted.
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I did not hear him. I did not hear him say he withdrew the word "rat".
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I did not hear him say, "I withdraw the word rat".
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: He did not say he withdrew the word "rat".
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: He is the man who told the people of Tipperary a contract was signed when it clearly was not signed-----
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: -----and he has the cheek to call me a vermin such as that. We know who the vermin are and the people of Tipperary know who the vermin are. They will know.
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. If I could be allowed to finish, this is the biggest attack on rural Ireland by the Minister - "Big Phil" as I call him. He is fleeing to Europe. It is an attack on community development and the volunteers that I salute and have worked with over the years, unlike Deputy Hayes, who could not be found. He was in Brussels or gone off on some other...
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes, besmirched my good name because his name might lag a little in the polls. He will resort to any tactics. Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle for trying to offer me some protection but it was an outrageous intrusion on the five minutes I had to speak.
- Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I so move. I compliment the former Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív, on tabling the motion.