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Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: What €300?

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Ask him. I do not know what it was about either.

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I want the comment withdrawn. What €300?

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: What?

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: You are a disgrace, Frankie. I am disgusted by you.

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister called me a disgrace. Did Deputy Feighan say that I was looking for €300 for my son's confirmation? I do not know what he meant. Go back to Roscommon, Frankie, and talk to people about the hospital. How dare you?

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Sorry. I meant "Deputy Feighan".

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I know. Deputy Feighan should talk to the people to whom he gave a solemn promise that he would fight for his hospital.

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: At least his colleague had the manners and guts to stand up for it.

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I know how emotional the turf issue has been for Deputy Feighan. I would not have said that, but he insulted me. I ask the Minister and Deputies on the Government side to vote with their feet next Tuesday.

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true.

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I accept that.

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil leis an Cheann Comhairle, leat féin, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, agus leis na hoifigigh in Oifig na mBillí. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, the Ceann Comhairle's office and staff, the staff in the Bills Office, my staff and Yvonne Murphy for their help and co-operation in...

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: In this situation, the cowboys have put them out of business. If Deputy Keating had read the Bill, he would understand that I fully acknowledge the honest business people trying to make a living, giving employment and paying rates, taxes and PRSI. They are being undermined at an alarming rate by cowboy activity. Like many other businesses, they are struggling and need to be supported and...

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Keating will have his chance later. This does not augur well for the passage of legislation. Nonetheless, everyone is entitled to have a say.

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I have always been against legislation that places unnecessary burdens on business but it appears this industry is entirely unregulated and the private property of citizens is suffering as a consequence. Every Member hears stories of this on a weekly basis in clinics. Why should we introduce legislation? We raised the matter with various Ministers over the years and nothing happened. We...

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: That is fine, I have no problem being funny. Roving gangs of marauding thugs come into my county every year from all over the country. They masquerade as Travellers but they are not. They are shoddy business people, with no PRSI numbers, VAT numbers, registration or C2 forms, only cash business. They are plundering and frightening people. They have bonfires as if they had won the...

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat. I do not say that I have all the answers. There can be amendments or discussion. It is a bad day when one does not learn something and I am open to learning today. I commend this Bill to the House.

Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: This Bill proposes to amend the Education Act 1998 and the Teaching Council Act 2001. There are many good aspects to the Bill but I also have some serious concerns. Section 4 of the Bill provides for amendment of the definition of "support services" in section 2 of the Education Act 1998. It clarifies that speech therapy services in primary schools will be provided by the HSE, as has been...