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- Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I know that, of course.
- Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: More collateral damage.
- Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (2 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Ba mhaith liom, ar son na Teachtaí Neamhspleácha sa Teach seo, fíor-fáilte a chur roimh chlann Pádraig Faulkner atá sa Dáil tráthnóna inniu. On behalf of the Independent Deputies, I express our sympathy to the family of the late Pádraig Faulkner. Dunleer lost one of its most famous sons with the death of the former Minister and Ceann...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (2 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 277. To ask the Minister for Finance the way AIB and Permanent TSB can advertise for business and investment when it is accepted that they are insolvent institutions with no capacity to offer secure liquidity; the exact extent of the insolvency/liquidity crisis in the above named institutions; his views on the way this will impact on the interest of those taxpayers who might respond to...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (2 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he wil provide a definitive statement on the proposed cuts to special needs assistants' working hours and resource teaching allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31939/13]
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It was diluted.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They wanted to come in.
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister. I want to be positive. The staff are under enough pressure. We need definite dates. I am aware that there are two candidates who have not fully come on board, and one is due to take up a position later on this year, which I welcome. In the spirit of the Higgins report, I appeal to the Minister to ensure South Tipperary General Hospital gets support from its sister...
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I know he is.
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Maith an fear.
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes, from Brussels.
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Beidh fíor fáilte roimh gach daoine a thiocfaidh go Cluain Meala.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Charges Review (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: He will have no excuse when the Seanad is gone.
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted that the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, is in the Chamber to listen to my pleas today. We waited in anticipation for a great deal of time for the Higgins report. I acknowledge that it was pulled and pushed around and that Kilkenny made a break for the border to align with Dublin. We had been working hard in the south east region for many years. We had accepted...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The committee hearings represented a charade that will be unmasked in the fullness of time. People are not being fooled; they see what is going on. It is the tail wagging the dog. The Labour Party has got nothing else out of the Government for its supporters and the public and thinks the Bill is manna from heaven. When they had to be found out by tape, covertly, it is sad. This is only a...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Of course, I have.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I rise today to speak against the main provisions of this Bill which, under the circumstances, must be one of the most misleadingly titled Bills that has ever come before this House. But before I do, I must express my disgust at hearing Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin's contribution in which he lectured the rest of us about betraying the republic because some of us hold a...
- Order of Business (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Big Houses of Ireland Bill.
- Order of Business (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Rightly so.
- Order of Business (26 Jun 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Under the Electoral (Amendment) (Referendum Spending and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, we voted in this House to run the Children (Referendum) Bill. The Supreme Court found that the Government misappropriated - that is a kind word, the Court was stronger than that - €1.1 million of that funding. When will we have a debate on that or will the Government avoid it like everything...