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- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: "Temporary" is the word.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: "Temporary" is the operative word.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: You will be delighted when I will be-----
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: While I am temporary I have a lot to do and therefore the Ceann Comhairle might allow me discretion-----
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I hope my questions for the Taoiseach are in order. The first concerns the Defence (Amendment) Bill and Civil Defence. A number of different directives have been issued to Civil Defence which are conflicting in terms of what its members can do. They can no longer use the blue flashing lights but when they are called out to accidents to help the gardaí or ambulance staff they have to...
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I know that, but many accidents will occur before then. The other question is on the local government reform Bill, which contains many proposals to abandon and merge councils. The Leader partnership companies are now being denied all funding because everything is on hold until such time this so-called merger takes place or they are succumbed into the county councils.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I said I wanted to raise three items.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I asked about funding for the Leader partnership companies, which has been frozen. The Taoiseach knows what they do better than I do, and perhaps that could be released. The more important question refers to the Finance Bill. I ask the Taoiseach, and the Minister for Finance, if there is any possibility they might rein in the Secretary General, Mr. Moran, for his comments in which he...
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: -----the householders, and all of us, including that the banks were not doing enough repossessions.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: He is the Secretary General. As the Taoiseach knows, he was in banking in America.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I objected to his being appointed here to his job.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am not spoiling it.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am asking if the Taoiseach can rein him in.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: He directed the jury to acquit the defendant, thereby causing the case to collapse after four hours. He also wrote to the DPP, which was very unwise for any man in that position. It gets worse. The General - Martin Cahill - broke into the DPP's office.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am putting my question. He stole a file. The Garda did some kind of deal with him to get it back because it contained information that would be embarrassing to the State.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They are serious allegations.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is indeed.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am putting my question to the leader of our country, the Taoiseach, who occupies the highest office in the land. His Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, committed to holding an independent inquiry on this sordid affair while he was in Opposition, as did the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, when he was justice spokesperson for the...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is not a matter to be treated lightly and I do not stand up lightly to raise it. It is a matter of huge disquiet to the population at large. Our justice system, An Garda Síochána and the institutions of the State must be held in the highest of esteem and put above reproach. I thank the Taoiseach for indicating that he will bring the matter to the attention of the Minister for...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I highlight an issue fundamental to the pursuit of justice in this country in 2013. There is an ongoing scandal surrounding the unsolved murder of a hugely popular parish priest, Fr. Niall Molloy, in 1985. The case has remained controversial and there has been unhappiness and unease about it through several Governments for three decades. All of the evidence points to a high level cover up,...