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Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: No. I want to finish my contribution first.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: No. I would like another half a minute. I was interrupted.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I was continuously interrupted. They cannot take the situation.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on this motion tonight. However, I am not pleased - I am hurt and annoyed - by the trauma that is being visited upon ordinary decent people. I compliment Deputy Ó Caoláin on tabling the motion. I am shocked and taken aback. I sat on a social welfare committee with the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, and Deputy Catherine...

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: She should hang her head in shame.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Social welfare.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéil. I ask the Minister of State which committee she was on with me.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: It does not matter. She spoke about social inclusion, and caring and sharing, but now she comes in here and-----

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I will correct the record - that is fine. She was on an Oireachtas committee with me - the name eludes me, but it does not matter. The Minister of State has a much longer record in politics than I have. However, she should be ashamed about what she said to the Disability Federation of Ireland - Deputy Kelleher was there also. When she was asked about the appalling cuts in August to the...

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: However, the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, gets on with the bullyboy, the Minister, Deputy Reilly and she is leaning down to lick his coat-tails and to support privatisation.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: There is no agenda except to-----

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: It should not be in the Dáil.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: It should.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: There was noise in Kilkenny after the match.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Bring back James Tully.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: It will not save anything.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: People have been protesting regularly outside the Dáil, including today, because a major contract-----

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I refer to the Construction Contracts Bill. A company in Kilkenny, which was involved in a major project for a school, has disappeared, leaving high and dry hundreds of employees-----

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: -----and dozens of subcontractors.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: It is in order. I refer to the subcontractors Bill, which has been promised for so long.