Results 17,941-17,960 of 20,768 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am glad the Minister for Justice and Equality is present as I speak with regard to the criminal justice (money laundering and terrorist financing) (amendment) Bill. A man was shot in a village in south Tipperary this morning by gangland criminals.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister knows such action is rife around the country. When will he give the power to the Garda to deal with these people?
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: It is the criminal justice (money laundering and terrorist financing) (amendment) Bill.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That will be too late. When will we see these terrorists being brought off the streets?
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: They are striking fear into all citizens. Early next year is not good enough.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Gardaí do not even have squad cars.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: It is serious. A man was shot dead in Golden this morning. It is not funny.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am not. How dare the Minister say that.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I will not. I allowed too many questions from her and her colleagues during the previous Dáil. What we now have from the Minister of State is crocodile tears and a statement that she was not aware the cuts were being introduced.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Lynch is a Minister of State.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is fine. However, I am putting it on the record. The Minister of State can agree or not. I have the floor. I do not interrupt the Minister of State.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I have the floor. Are you chairing the proceedings or not?
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Then do so. I have the floor.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: There are no lies. Excuse me, there are no lies. The Minister of State knows all about lies. There are no lies in what I am saying. The Minister of State was a member of the committee. She should be ashamed of herself. She comes from a Cork constituency and demanded so much.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: No, I was interrupted. The heat is too much for the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch. The former Minister of State, Deputy Róisín Shortall, at least had the courage of her convictions and pulled out. The Minister for Health wants to let elderly people die on the roads and, as I stated previously in Clonmel, to humiliate them.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister has a big house in Offaly and is part owner of a private nursing home in Carrick-on-Suir. The Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, is seeking the closure of the public nursing home in Tipperary. The Minister is also involved in a private development in Dublin. He is too busy to look after ordinary people.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He is not interested in rural or ordinary people.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister promised so much. He came in here and promised the troika would be burned and attacked but what have we got? What we have is a humiliation of-----
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: No, the Government should be ashamed of itself. Its members are poachers turned gamekeepers, and they should be ashamed of themselves.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I have no notion of withdrawing them.