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- 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.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach does not believe it himself. He referred to my speech being written by the chairman of my constituency organisation. I do not have one. Thankfully, I do not have a list of overpaid advisers-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: -----keeping me aloft and away from the people.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I must answer for myself to the people of Tipperary.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am trying to, but-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. I just said that.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The cuts to child benefit and the back to school clothing allowance amounted to savings of €153 million, yet only €18.5 million of that was redirected into services and programmes for children. For what it is worth, will the Taoiseach commit to increasing this paltry amount so that the alarmingly high levels of child poverty in this country will be tackled once more?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Will the Taoiseach at least try to keep this promise so that our children will not continue to number among the worst in Europe in terms of high rates of consistent poverty? This is from a child poverty group. These are not my words. They were not written by any of the scriptwriters or spin doctors the Taoiseach has. He has many of them.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach gets plenty of ranting letters. His spin doctors have things written out for him before he even enters the Chamber.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: We are all delighted. I will tell the Taoiseach one thing-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I did not think that I had that much influence over the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: As we move towards the summer recess it is appropriate to raise one final time with the Taoiseach some of the key concerns I have put to him on the floor of the House but which have failed to receive any kind of meaningful response. Over the course of this Dáil session I have tried to engage with the Taoiseach on a number of extremely important issues such as the plight of the Omagh...