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- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Did they pay it back?
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (19 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will receive their single farm and disadvantaged area payments; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49379/13]
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The woods the Government is wandering in.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 3. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there has been any risk-benefit analysis carried out regarding the impact that the EirGrid grid link project will have on the agricultural economy of south Tipperary; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that south Tipperary has a thriving beef and dairy industry with major companies having long established businesses...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I asked this question because there could be implications if we do not do a cost-benefit analysis and impact assessment of the damage that will be done to agriculture in south Tipperary and elsewhere by this ruinous project, which serves big business and will not do what it is supposed to, namely, maintain our energy supplies. I plead with the Minister. His colleague, the Minister of State,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Freagair an ceist. There is no bait.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: He will not answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: As the Minister should be.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Of course it is.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I acknowledge that the Minister attended to answer these questions. I tabled questions to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, but they were ruled out of order because he claimed that he had no responsibility for EirGrid. He can appear on every radio show, including the local station of the Minister of State and me yesterday, as its spokesperson,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Lies and damned lies.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Protect agriculture.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am not suggesting that the Minister should do anything. I am demanding that he, as the Minister responsible for agriculture with his colleague, stand up and protect rural Ireland and farmers from something that will have consequences for generations. The Minister did not mention Food Harvest 2020, but we in south Tipperary and the Golden Vale play a major part in that. It must be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister's colleagues up and down the country did.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I was at public meetings in the north east where-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The sea has not been examined.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (14 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister has made a nice new appointment of a CEO.
- Order of Business (13 Nov 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to ask about the Judicial Council Bill and two very important matters, one of which is the Fr. Niall Molloy case. Will the Taoiseach also meet the families of the victims of the Omagh bombings?