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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Maintenance (7 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 420. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact hat repair works to a fallen bridge on the border of South Tipperary and Waterford is being delayed until August/ September by the Inland Fisheries; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this road is closed and will remain closed until August/ September unless these works are...

Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to be able to speak on the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012. The purpose of the Bill is to extend the remit of Science Foundation Ireland to enable it to fund applied research in addition to its existing remit to fund oriented basic research. Oriented basic research is an internationally-recognised category of research and is defined...

Order of Business (2 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: The Government's strategic infrastructure sub-committee always meets in time of crisis, including flooding and other emergencies. Will that sub-committee be convened to deal with the fodder crisis? I know that we have sunshine and a bit of heat now, but this major infrastructural problem will continue into the autumn, winter and next spring. Figures released last night confirm that there...

Order of Business (2 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted. Last night's figures have shown an increase of up to 61% in dead animals in some areas. It is a big issue.

Order of Business (2 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I do not think it is being grasped. The Government has a strategic infrastructure sub-committee, including the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Finance, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. We are depending on agriculture for our economy to recover, yet it is getting a hammering. The situation...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Yesterday, the heads of the protection of life during pregnancy Bill were discussed in the House. It was condemned by some as a positive compromise and condemned by others as not going far enough. I suggest both approaches are seriously flawed. The very content of the Bill in its current form undermines the very rights it sets out to protect.

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...