Results 16,641-16,660 of 20,768 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I waited with the greatest respect and I hope to get respect. I want to speak on behalf of people who have a different view.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I had to write to the Ceann Comhairle last week. He does his best always, but we are not being allowed to speak and it is not fair on us over here.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat. The Bill does this by framing proposed legislation which completely ignores the weight of medical evidence which demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt that abortion as a treatment for suicide is harmful to women and favours an ideological position not supported by facts. It is also proposed that certain hospitals will be designated to perform these so-called...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am a member of the health committee and I was at the meeting this morning. I will make these points at the committee also. I hope the committee will not just be a stalking horse for the legislation and that we, and those who come before us, will be listened to. What persuaded the Tánaiste to include a provision for psychiatrists to arrive at a position which they have stated is not...
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Mainly in Dublin.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The eviction Bill.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Untrue.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Did I?
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Was it?
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I obliged the Deputy by speaking early.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, I spoke 20 minutes early to accommodate the Deputy, who was in the Chair at the time, given that there was nobody here to speak from Labour.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am just saying I came in and spoke 20 minutes earlier.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Does the Deputy think it adds to it to put the legislation through?
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to the subject. It is all relative, a Cheann Comhairle. We are getting one piece of legislation after another to damn the people. To hell or to Connacht, or wherever. It is unbelievable. Article 40.1 states:All citizens shall, as human persons, be held equal before the law. This shall not be held to mean that the State shall not in its enactments have due regard to...
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I have his permission to mention him. He was a good Deputy and a good Minister of State. He had to be dealt with, but we cannot bring the bankers before the courts. We see the merry-go-round that is going on. They are moving between top executive jobs. Another one of them is going off to join Lloyds, and more are coming back here. We had a case involving two brothers recently, one in...
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to be able to speak on this Bill but I am ashamed and saddened to think that with a Labour Party Minister of State in the House, in the year of the 100th anniversary of 1913 and big Jim Larkin, that we are bringing in this Bill to deal with the Gunn judgment as if that judgment was wrong. I cannot understand what this Government has against ordinary people. I cannot...
- Order of Business (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Nor the banks.
- Order of Business (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: When?
- Order of Business (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: There should be a fodder Bill.
- Order of Business (1 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: What about the publicans across the road?