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- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I refer to when he undermines his own Ministers of State. Members had a discussion today on the Order of Business about how he will not delegate power to his own junior Ministers.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: What can one call him but a bully?
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: In my classroom, that was called being a bully.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Name who? They are all there.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Kehoe as well. I met a lot of people from County Wexford in a different country last week and they named him as well.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister promised so much.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He came to Clonmel - I know he was thinking of south Tipperary.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He ran through the hospital with such indecent haste that he nearly knocked people off the trolleys because he did not wish to meet them or see them. Moreover, Deputy Tom Hayes, who is sitting behind the Minister, and I were to have this famous meeting with him on the conclusion of his visit. However, he jumped into his car and fled.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Cromwell did not run as fast from Tipperary as did the Minister.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: No, he went over the border. He has his stately mansion in Moneygall and his tax-free breaks.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He has a nursing home.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle should add two minutes. Could the Deputy please-----
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: What point of order? The Deputy is wasting time.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Is that all?
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I will stay standing as well. I will never stand for a Fine Gaeler. I will stand up to the Deputy any day of the week. Fine Gael promised everything and delivered nothing. It was the same way back in the 1920s. Deputy Hayes is taking his time.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He ran through it like a dose of flu and left the bugs after him.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is total nonsense. I want to correct that fallacy, which the Deputy probably dreamt in a dream, at the think-in in Castlebar or up Croagh Patrick or wherever else he went. While I do not know where he went, the Deputy should say a few more prayers and should return to meet the people in south Tipperary who are ringing him day and night. Members know this but the Deputy is hiding...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The problem is not with the Government but with the Minister, Deputy Reilly. He does not have time to deal with the health portfolio because he is too busy fighting the wars on his property portfolio.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is the fact. Whether it is a nursing home in Carrick-on-Suir in which he has a share and which, incidentally, HIQA forgot to visit for three years-----
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Today, it was revealed he did not pay the architects who designed it. How could it be right, whether it is a portfolio in Offaly or whether it is all the different portfolios he has in Dublin? He does not have time to look after the ordinary people.