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Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: In Canada.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (17 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of wind turbines it will take to fulill his Memorandum of Understanding in view of the fact that a newspaper (details supplied) reported that the UK will save seven billion sterling by not having to build offshore wind farms and that Ireland is planning to export approximately €2.5 billion worth of...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: That is nothing to crow about.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: We kept the Seanad in spite of the Government.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: That is nonsense.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: They will-----

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: A total of 130,000 medical cards have been taken away.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: At whose expense?

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: The treason man is over on that side. The man is beside the Minister of State.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: It is the man beside the Minister of State.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I will not-----

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Take it off their parents.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: What about the mothers, fathers and grandparents?

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Can the Minister of State claim that?

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: They are not here to claim them.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Where are they all gone? Abroad, to Canada.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Tá áthas an domhain orm bheith anseo anocht. Tá dhá Airí Stáit as Tiobraid Árann anseo anocht freisin. I am delighted to see two of my colleagues tonight in the Chamber, but I do not know how they could return to Tipperary to begin to sell this budget. I welcome the positive initiatives.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the home improvement retrofit scheme, which I have sought for the past four or five years in submissions. I welcome and salute it. I also welcome the retention of the 9% VAT rate for the hospitality trade. It has been a success and it would have been nonsense to change it.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I also welcome some of the other grant schemes, even the new scheme for suckler cow herds. A pound a week for a heifer is not a lot, but it is a start. Tosach maith leath na hoibre, but it is a paltry amount that is only worth around €1 per week - €60 per year. It is thruppence ha'penny; it would not give a tip to the young fellow at the mart. What can I say other than that?...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: It is a savage attack on young people who want to go to college. What are we doing to them? We are raising the fees by €250 per year. I wonder if the Minister of State, Deputy Alan Kelly, saw Labour Youth outside tonight with banners objecting to the savage attack on young people. He is telling them they must have less money. I am not saying we should pay young people to stay at...