Results 19,021-19,040 of 20,768 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I honestly mean that.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister did not give me a considered reply. He never mentioned the Pawnbrokers Act.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: How was I to know?
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister might be too busy looking after his legal entitlements to look after his job. He sits in the Chamber and makes snide remarks every day. The Ceann Comhairle does not see him because he does not move.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He makes mealy-mouthed remarks to colleagues across the floor on this side of the House.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am appalled at the Minister.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is not a point of order. That is another challenge.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: This is not theatrics. The Minister is good at theatrics himself.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am on the Bill. The Minister's point was not a point of order.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: While he welcomed the process of putting a Bill together, the Minister denigrated our abilities. He said we did not have this, that and the other thing. I co-operated with the Bills Office. At the outset today I thanked the office for its co-operation and help. I understood that it would circulate the Bill to the Minister. I am sure it did submit it to the Department.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: If it did not then it is not my fault. I submitted it to the Bills Office, properly ordered and separated in sections. Members of staff in the office were very helpful to me. I understood that they would pass it on but if they did not I cannot apologise for them. I take exception to the Minister-----
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: We did not. We did until the Minister intervened. He is not listening to his backbenchers.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I hope it will be raised at the next parliamentary party meeting.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: We saw from the e-mail to which I referred that it is a major problem for national security and the safety of lives. It is not a question of me being decorative or anything else.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I admit it is a humble effort from me to introduce it as a backbencher with the support of my colleagues. We had a good discussion on the Bill, except for what the Minister said at the outset, to which he returned a second time in making his concluding remarks.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is his form. He spends most days shouting obscenities across the floor under the radar of the Ceann Comhairle who does not even see him.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: You could be in the Chamber some days also, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The remarks are deadly, they are well-aimed, directed and piercing. The Minister should learn a small bit himself. He is longer in this House than I am.
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I compliment Deputy Harris and Deputy John Paul Phelan on what they said. I was not aware that they had submitted a similar Bill to the Minister more than a year ago. I am not sure of the date. Why was something not done in that regard?
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is good. That is not a problem. I acknowledge that. I was not sure of the date. I also submitted parliamentary questions to the then Minister, Mr. Dermot Ahern. We did not have Friday sittings then. I acknowledged the Government for having Friday sittings. I did not have that facility during the previous Government. I wished the Government well in its endeavours. The previous...
- Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)
Mattie McGrath: No, my time was taken. I did not start when I was supposed to speak. I have five or six minutes remaining.