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- 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.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: They are the facts. The Minister is involved in a private nursing home in Carrick-on-Suir. HIQA is proposing closure of the public home.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister has a mansion in County Offaly and other private interests.
- 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.