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- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: No, he has enough to say too. We have to rebut all those allegations. Even though I am not a member of Fianna Fáil, I hate to hear spurious claims made about a party I was proud to belong to for many years. I sympathise with the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, because she is a reasonable person. Unfortunately, the man beside her is not a reasonable person and has not shown...
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Of course I will return to planning. There are also the outrageous charges he made just now.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: We will all be forced to have a basket. I did not say anything that was not nice about the Minister of State. I said she was a decent, hard working Minister, unlike the person beside her-----
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: -----who wishes to bully his way through and who was able to tell me in another part of this House - he can deny it when he is asked elsewhere - that he would make sure the constituency boundaries would be sorted out in such a way that I would not be here. Talk about independence and arrogance.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: You said it.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister said that.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: No, you said it.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He said it.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I believe it.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He told me.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: No, I will not.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He told me to my face.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He told me to my face.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He made it in a jocose way but it is a funny joke when it comes from Phil.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am not doing that.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I said it was said in a jocose way but it will be a different joke tomorrow. It is all a joke as far as the Minister is concerned. As was correctly said by the speaker before the Minister, he was kept hidden for three weeks during the referendum campaign, as was the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am trying to discuss the planning, a Cheann Comhairle, but it was very hard to listen to that diatribe for the last five minutes. It distracts one completely from what one wishes to say. One need go no further than Dungarvan to see who was involved in the planning scandal. It is down the road from the Minister. He need go no further than the Moriarty tribunal report to see what happened....
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Ministers can spin it whatever way they wish but they were initiated. They can ask his colleague, Eamon Ryan. Mr. Gormley has retired from politics and is not here to defend himself. Big Phil arrived in and told the lads in Carlow-Kilkenny: "Don't worry. We will put the foot down on them and make sure there will be no more about that. That is okay in other counties but it cannot...
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: This is a fact. This is what the Minister is doing.
- Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He is like a train or a steamroller that cannot be stopped. A sum of â¬1 million can go into Waterford city instead of offices for Kilkenny County Council.