Results 16,541-16,560 of 20,746 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am just saying I am glad the Minister has arrived, because that is how silly it is. We have got carried away and punch drunk, thinking we can do what we like, when we like, where we like and to hell with the people and to hell with Bunreacht na hÉireann. We simply say, "Yes, we will do whatever you ask" to our European colleagues. We have never looked for a write-down for the...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Are you sure?
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat. I thought I did something else wrong but I thank God I am spared this time. The non-voted expenditure also consists of expenditure on share subscriptions to State bodies, judicial salaries and pensions, and with which I have no difficulty at all, salaries and pensions of Uachtarán na hÉireann. We have a good Uachtarán na hÉireann and I respect him....
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Of course.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Leave the Minister of State off.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, of course I would.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal. I stand corrected on that. What is all the hoo-ha at Dublin Castle about the Presidency?
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: My niece and some others have been up Dancing at Lughnasa or dancing like lunatics at the Mansion House for these guests and it all is for fun and games. We see the flags flying inside the hall. We have power when it suits us and we have no more power.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I accept that. I thank the Minister of State.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I do not mind deferring to the Minister of State at all. I do not mind saying I am not infallible. I am only a humble backbencher from south Tipperary. I would not be always right or claim to be. Certainly, I note the charade that went on. We talk about the European Central Bank. When we had our so-called bailout, which I referred to at the time as a clean-out, the interest rates...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: We are, but we are looking for what we call rolling funds or, as I learned first in the local authorities, the multi-annual fund. As to how medium or how roving is multi-annual, I do not know. As roving as you like, I suppose, Acting Chairman. I do not know whether it is roaming or roving. Recently, I spoke on the Non-Use of Motor Vehicles Bill. I was aghast. I made my horror known....
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Tá súil agam go mbeidh an Cathaoirleach ann maidin amárach nuair a bheidh mé ar Leaders' Questions. Deputy Broughan is a great man to keep order and I apologise for whispering to my colleague when Deputy Fleming was speaking. He would be a great man for Leaders' Questions and would keep order on the Government side while I was trying to make my points against the...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Táim ag teacht ar ais so fan cúpla nóiméad. I am coming back to it, although I am going the circuitous route. I am elected to the Dáil like everyone else for the time being and I cannot understand the charade that is going on in this country and how people have plundered it and walk free. If I mislead my accountant it is basic, naked, simple fraud and I can be...
- Topical Issue Debate: FÁS Local Training Initiatives Expenditure (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I understand the Minister's last comments. I would not expect him to do anything that might upset the investigation. If the Minister of State has any respect for me or for his position, however, he would not come in here and tell me three and half years later what is happening. FÁS is well aware of what went on, FÁS participants have testified to officials about how their names...
- Topical Issue Debate: FÁS Local Training Initiatives Expenditure (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this important issue. I feel I am repeating my words because on 27 September 2012, I raised the same questions. There may have been a different context because it related to workers getting paid proper redundancy, but I referred to the ongoing scandal of the abandoned hostel project in Tipperary town. I gather Pobal, FÁS and...
- Topical Issue Debate: Food Safety Standards Regulation (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to ask about two Bills. On the Children First Bill, the Government ignored the Supreme Court's decision on the scandalous way in which it misappropriated the money voted by the House last year. The Supreme Court stated that the Government failed to have a discussion on it and I ask when it would do so.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The legislation is the Children First Bill.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: He has - or the new Whip. The Minister said earlier that I was talking nonsense - how dare he.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: He should go back and talk to the farmers in Wexford and they will tell him what nonsense is.