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Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: That such institutional nepotism and corrupt practice could carry on in this country-----

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal. It will take a long time before we clean that. We have to do it here. It behoves every elected member to do so. In fairness, 99.9% of all elected people here and everywhere else were elected for good motives - to serve the public rather than to be self-serving. I believe the pensions should be removed. There is no point in saying we cannot go back. We should remove...

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: What is meant by "wrong acts"?

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: No.

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Okay. I appreciate that, a Cheann Comhairle. I know that.

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that everybody is entitled to his or her good name, as I am to mine. My good name was cleared by a jury, thank God. I referred to certain decisions that have been taken. I know an old man who wants his name to be cleared because of shady dealings before he goes to his grave. I met a former member of a corporation on Monday night and spoke to him at length. He wants his good...

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Stop the heckling.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I was not helping the Chair. I was just saying the Government side should stop the heckling.

Employment Levels (27 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The figures the Minister of State gave in his response seem to be nine months out of date. Do we have no figures for the third and last quarters of last year, and the first quarter of this year? Figures for the first quarter of 2011 are wildly out of date and surely we can do better than that.

Employment Levels (27 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: This does not relate to the previous Government. The Minister of State should answer the question.

Employment Levels (27 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: How are we supposed to operate with those figures?

Parliamentary Reform (27 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: He cannot.

Parliamentary Reform (27 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I have experience of putting forward a Private Members' Bill and I thank the Bills Office for it.

Parliamentary Reform (27 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: It is fine that they attend but it is not reform because while the Minister attends he rejects every proposal. Perhaps he gives us a lesson for not engaging with him. I know the Chief Whip was abroad on Government duty on St. Patrick's day and I commend him on that, but is he aware that when he was away the Deputy Government Whip did not bother to turn up? We had a Private Members' debate...

Parliamentary Reform (27 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Of course it has. The question is about Dáil reform. We had come into this Chamber -----

Parliamentary Reform (27 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Ceann Comhairle does not know what I am talking about. He was not here that evening. Somebody else was in the Chair.

Parliamentary Reform (27 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: No, this has to do with Dáil reform. There was nobody at all on the Government side.

Parliamentary Reform (27 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: This was a Private Members' debate and there was nobody at all on the Government side of the House. I know the Chief Whip was away, but the Deputy Government Whip should have been around somewhere.

Parliamentary Reform (27 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: No, it is not. It is about Dáil reform. Surely to God it is incumbent on the Government to have a quorum in the House and to have a Minister available to answer on an important issue.

Parliamentary Reform (27 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I have complained to the Ceann Comhairle's office on a different issue.