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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 I want that word withdrawn, please.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.

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment Deputy Ó Cuív, a former Minister, on this motion. The first time I engaged with Leader partnerships was during the time of the former Minister of State, Liam Hyland. They have come a long way. I mention the work Deputy Ó Cuív did when he was Minister. The Government needs to listen to the people unlike what is happening now when they are being totally...

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

Mattie McGrath: I was present when the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes, was elected in a by-election and he said he would represent the people of Tipperary but he has abandoned them. He has sold out.

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

Mattie McGrath: What about signing contracts that were never signed? The Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes, should be ashamed of himself as a Member of Dáil Éireann telling people contracts were signed which were clearly not signed.

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

Mattie McGrath: I received a letter today from-----

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

Mattie McGrath: That is not a point of order. It is rubbish and balderdash and the people of Tipperary know that. We have lost Kickham Barracks, our mental hospital, our Garda stations and all our county councils and the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes, is sitting in for the Minister, Deputy Hogan, who is fleeing to Europe, using bully-boy tactics and denying the people of Tipperary all the communities...

Order of Business (4 Jun 2014)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Government parties be still together then?

Order of Business (4 Jun 2014)

Mattie McGrath: Under the local government Act, the Minister has directed county council chief executive officers that no nominations will take place this week at their annual general meetings regarding Leader and local development companies.

Order of Business (4 Jun 2014)

Mattie McGrath: This is promised legislation. It is on the legislation but the local development companies have been left in limbo.