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- 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.
- Topical Issues: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me the opportunity to raise this issue. I am glad the Minister, Deputy James Reilly, is in the Chamber to take it. As he will know, in south Tipperary an ambulance service operates out of Cashel, Clonmel and Tipperary town. There has been a concentrated effort by the national ambulance service to downgrade the service in south Tipperary by reducing...
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I ask the Taoiseach about what Deputy Donnell said earlier. The story in the Irish Independent today is good news.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: When is it proposed to bring in the Central Bank consolidation Bill and when will the Government rein in the activity of banks? They are nearly all rogue banks but most of them are behaving roguishly We need to put some order on these people who are terrorising families and businesspeople on a daily basis.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Alan has not gone yet.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)
Mattie McGrath: On the plane.