Results 16,041-16,060 of 20,745 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Balderdash.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is balderdash.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Go back to the Department with Mr. Sherlock and your neighbours, whom you referred to me.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Do that.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Let him see your speech.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy has no script with him tonight. He is stuck for a script.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy gets more than he earns.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, regarding the leader's allowance.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy's party gets more than €90,000 per year. He might not know that but it is something he should know.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is finished in the courts. The Supreme Court decided.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: There certainly is a case being taken again with a lay litigant and it could be overturned. However, the Government should have left it alone. I do not blame the Minister personally but I blame the Government that made the decision. The Supreme Court was obliged to find that the Government erred, there was misinformation, the Government spent the money and misappropriated the money, which...
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Sorry?
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It was misappropriated. These are not my words. These are the words of the-----
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: We are not going to hide behind that any longer. I have asked-----
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I accept that. I have asked several times for a debate in this Chamber on the matter but cannot even get a debate on the judgment.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It will not always be before the courts. A lay litigant is taking a case before the courts to try to overturn the decision. However, the matter to which I refer has been dealt with in the courts, namely, the misappropriation of funds. Five judges unanimously gave that decision.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: That matter is not before the courts. The five-judge decision is completed-----
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: ----- and €1.1 million of the money was misappropriated. The Minister can call that what she likes but I call it stealing. It was robbing the public money that was passed by the people and voted by me personally in this Oireachtas.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I called it stealing. One can call it what one likes but €1.1 million was taken and spent wrongly. What else is it?
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Were a lady or man to enter a shop and steal a sliced pan, they would be prosecuted for it. That was public-----