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- 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.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is not silly.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Government is doing nothing.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I have asked the question, but the Minister is interrupting. I asked about the Children First Bill.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I also ask about the Central Bank (consolidation) Bill given that there are receivers up and down the country. I met approximately 50 people protesting outside a receiver's premises on St. Stephen's Green-----
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: -----about the behaviour of banks and receivers which are carrying on outside the law in many cases.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They are destroying good businesses.
- Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I do not want a debate. I want to know when the Bill will come in.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is the Taoiseach who is talking nonsense, not I. He stated the Minister is very busy. Why would the Taoiseach not appoint a second Minister of State? Of what is the Taoiseach afraid? Promises keep all the backbenchers quiet. The Taoiseach's response to the fodder crisis is disgraceful. He has refused to call together the national infrastructure committee-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: -----on the day when the Farm Contractors of Ireland are outside the gates of this House protesting about the plight of the farming sector. All the waffle in the world, and all the spin, will not put grass on the fields or food on the tables. Shamefully, the Government is neglecting the main industry in this country. Coming from a rural county, the Taoiseach should understand the position...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I made it in the context-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the Minister of State the Taoiseach was going to appoint?
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach has left agriculture without a Minister of State.