Results 16,061-16,080 of 20,745 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: No, it is not.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: No, that aspect is finished before the court. The McCrystal case is finished.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It was decided by the High Court and further decided by the Supreme Court. It is finished, finito, críochnaithe and the decision delivered. The Government refused to acknowledge it. The Minister, Deputy Shatter, when he appeared on the "Six One News" on the evening of the Supreme Court decision, kept referring back to the High Court. However, the Supreme Court decided and the...
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I repeat I do not blame the Minister personally but through collective responsibility she had a hand in it and should have ensured the money was spent as it was meant to be spent. Consequently, what faith can people have? It now is proposed to set up another Oireachtas inquiry, five years later, to look into the banks. This is a politically-expedient decision by the present Administration...
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: No, it is all relevant because I heard Deputies criticising the absence of Fianna Fáil Members from the Chamber. While they can answer for themselves and I will not do so, it simply is a case of blaming the previous Government for everything and stating the present Government is great because of what it intends to do.
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister should set about doing the work, rather than talking about it or talking about what was not done. She should ensure, as I noted, that the bad practices in the HSE are left behind. Moreover, perhaps Deputy Conway, who has left the Chamber, should not criticise Deputy Shortall, who has a lot of experience in the House, considerably more than either me or indeed Deputy Conway....
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to be able to speak on the Child and Family Agency Bill. I have welcomed the Minister since her appointment to her job and I have wished her well. Up to 4,000 staff will be transferred to the new child and family agency which is being established following the long-standing criticism of the handling of child protection and social services by the HSE. The new child and family...
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Of course. I did not interrupt Deputy Doherty. I am not saying that. They have given a good deal and-----
- Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: If I could continue, I would appreciate it. They are still offering to give many supports but they cannot be allowed to be labelled with the whole mess. There is a suggestion that it was all their fault, but it was not. I know some of the families involved - Deputy Doherty might know some of them as well - who banished their youngsters into these places. I did not know they existed until...
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I also want to raise a matter related to the courts. I want to ask about the judicial council Bill because in recent weeks a High Court judge appointed a liquidator to a company, of which he is a director, and the liquidator was also a board member of that company. Many activities are going on in the courts that are unclear. We need good legislation in this area in order that we can...
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: As I am sure has been the case for other Deputies, I have been contacted by many GPs in respect of the new attack launched against them. As everyone is aware, GPs provide a tremendous service. Not all of them work in primary care practices and they are being obliged to deal with successive cuts. Some of them literally cannot continue to operate. In the context of the Medical Practitioners...
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They are coming under such pressure that they are being obliged to close their practices. They are being obliged to let staff go and they are also being forced out of small towns and villages. As stated, they represent the only part of the health system which is functioning at present.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach should look in the mirror when he talks about my ranting. We should get a big mirror and place it there for him. He rants, but no one believes him. I do not know whether the Minister, Deputy Noonan, wants to pinch him to bring him back to reality, but I do not believe him. Like all of the Taoiseach's other replies, that was an exercise in denial and an evasion over the real...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I wonder whether the Taoiseach remembers the remarkable disability campaigner, Joanna Jordan, who has accused him of back-tracking on his personal promise-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: This is a fact. The truth is bitter.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I did not say it was.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I will come to my question. I have two minutes, as the Ceann Comhairle pointed out-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: -----and one minute.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: If the Ceann Comhairle had been fair to me other times and given me cover, I would have appreciated it.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is Leaders' Questions, but the Taoiseach wanted to come back with a rant and a spin. No one believes it.