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- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Mattie McGrath: When?
- 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?...