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- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Where did the Taoiseach go to school?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: When the Taoiseach next stands outside houses, he will be looking for votes rather than looking at paint.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Will the Taoiseach still be in government?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I apologise for being obliged to leave the meeting to attend Leaders' Questions in the Dáil. I also welcome the invited guests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that, but beidh lá eile. I welcome the delegates and thank them for their attendance. However, as other members have noted, it is a different world from that described by the previous representatives and from what members know they are working in. Anyone who visits hospitals, has relatives or been sick is aware of the real position. I am a small employer - I had ten...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am sorry-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I will. I am just saying-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am trying to strike a balance, but I encounter this problem in my constituency on a daily basis. I had meetings with representatives of the HSE on Sunday and Monday. There is a disconnect in the HSE between those who deliver front-line services and management. Is there workforce planning because if there is, it is very poor? Members heard earlier that the HSE had a national working...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, after it was unfurled.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I understand that totally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Chairman can mention the plan unfurled last week, as he did-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I am being considerate to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I do not wish to so engage, but I am stating a fact. The Chairman mentioned the plan unfurled nationwide last week with millions-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It included cuts of millions of euro and involves 3,000 or 4,000 fewer staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am not being personal. I am challenging a system that has failed and is failing its employees. As for the seriousness of this issue, this does not pertain to the position of ordinary employees but affects health care. In the aforementioned huge system there is a huge disconnect. Plans are unfurled and one must dig into them to find out the small items of concern to oneself. They are...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is disgraceful.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Not true.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Sweet deals.