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- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The record will show that the Minister of State did say that. Can I continue?
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State does not even believe her own propaganda. The Minister of State told us that.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I will not withdraw what I said because that is what the Minister of State told us, unless she is telling me now that she told us a lie.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am on my feet. I understand I have the floor. The Minister of State will have time to reply.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State told us that she had pinched a patient to wake him.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: No. Which reply am I to believe, the one given here or the one previously given?
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State should check the record.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I cannot believe two stories. This is what is wrong with this Government. The Labour Party does not know what Fine Gael is doing and Fine Gael does not know what the Labour Party is doing.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: We are then left in a mess with nobody, except themselves and their spin doctors, getting any services.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State cannot be right both times.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am only repeating what she told us in Clonmel.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I do understand but I am not going to listen to spin. Either what the Minister of State said then or what she said now is correct.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to be able to ask some questions in this debate. Why was the entire business of the Dáil last week and most of its business this week devoted to a back-slapping exercise? There is nothing worse than listening to people who feel it is necessary to tell us how good they are. People will tell the Government parties how good they are when their candidates knock on doors in...
- Topical Issues: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I shudder when I hear the word "reconfiguration". We have reconfigured. We lost our hospital in Cashel. We have a High Court agreement. The paramedics and staff are not resisting change. All they want is to be able to operate in the knowledge that they will not be blamed for any embarrassing or sad situations that might arise. I do not want to predict doom and gloom. When I hear all...
- Topical Issues: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: So it is all imaginary.
- Topical Issues: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Are the staff imagining it?
- Topical Issues: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: What the Minister is saying is not true.
- Topical Issues: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The staff are being blamed again.
- Topical Issues: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister for that.
- Topical Issues: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister was blaming them a minute ago.