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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Allowances Review (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I too thank the Minister for his efforts and honesty in admitting the figure was 5% and that the savings achieved did not come to the €75 million ingrained among the public, leaving egg on everyone's face when only €2.5 million or €3 million was saved. The Taoiseach said he was writing to all line Ministers asking them to come up with savings. Like Deputy Mary Lou...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Allowances Review (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I acknowledge that the Minister does a difficult job and I wish him well in it. I do not want to knock public servants, particularly those on lower pay grades. I do not want to take money from the pockets of gardaí, nurses or other front line workers. However, the Minister or his Department fostered the expectation that €75 million could be saved and the public were left with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Allowances Review (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps that he will take to ensure greater accuracy in the targets that he sets in view of the failure to reach the target set in respect of public sector allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43586/12]

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: They do not pay the pension levy. There were 860 of them. There was a list of them throughout the public service, including county managers and directors of services. They did not pay the pension levy. They were exempted from the special levy. Everyone else had to pay it. The Minister of State need not shake his head. He can go back and check it. There was a change, but it was a...

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I corrected my mistake. Deputy Mitchell O'Connor should not be silly.

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Chair corrected my mistake and I was happy to have the record corrected.

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to be able to speak on the Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012. I was delighted there was a referendum on the fiscal treaty which I supported, albeit belatedly, but I was annoyed that we did not look for a better deal on it. However, the Government accepted it. This Bill is as a result of the fiscal treaty referendum being accepted. I have met the troika representatives twice...

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am sorry. I meant to say he was like a playboy on the front page of Time magazine. The people suffering from austerity and the kites being flown are traumatised. The Taoiseach is doing his best at home, but he is not at his best abroad. He came back with a deal from the European Council in June which, again, was supported by the President of the European Parliament last week. However,...

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Just like I did. Did Deputy Bernard Durkan see what I did?

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: We are all in the dark.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The lights have gone out.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Are there new criteria?

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I hope I am in order this morning.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I want to ask the Taoiseach, under the Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012, about the serious erosion taking place here in the proposed legislation in relation to the Veterinary Association of Ireland. Its members have given good service to the community and farming practices and they are being undermined here.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: There is a serious diminution of their situation.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: There will be more quangos and more lay-people, animal rights activists and others, interfering here whereas the veterinarians are qualified and have given good service.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I know that. I was there this morning.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Be fair.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: That is according to Time magazine.