Results 19,341-19,360 of 20,934 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome the Minister of State's clarification in regard to the number of staff in the authority. Deputy Flanagan referred earlier to the number of gardaà in a small village in Roscommon. Thirty nine staff would not be enough personnel to police one small town in this country on a 24 hour basis. That number of staff is totally inadequate and the big boys know that. At least two...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I did not say that.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State wanted more.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: We know that.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Briefly, I do not know the current price of concrete, although I should. However, I can confirm that last week, I paid â¬300, plus VAT, for 17 tonnes of washed sand. As washed sand makes up half the ingredients of concrete, I can imagine the price of the latter. It is not cheap and people are being fleeced for it.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: No, they are not.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Of course they are.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: However, they are only hanging on by their teeth.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: To be helpful to the Minister of State in view of the shortage of staff, I refer to the organisation called the National Employment Rights Authority, NERA. I have suggested for a long time that it should be called the national business support agency. The staff from that authority should be transferred or seconded to the Competition Authority because in they main they are engaged in...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach stole the clothes.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Codding the people.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The price of a medium.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Which one?
- Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: With regard to the Water Services (Amendment) Bill, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government stated on 26 January that the â¬50 charge was enshrined in primary legislation. In answering a question put by Deputy Michael Healy-Rae he said it would take a vote in the House to alter that charge. He also said that in his lifetime or in that of the Government he would not...
- Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: -----and announced that the charge was being reduced by 95%. With Deputies Brian Stanley, Niall Collins and others, I was in the Chamber when the Minister answered the question. What does the record of the House mean?
- Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Please do, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The Minister stated clearly that it would take a vote in the House to alter the â¬50 charge. He has now done it on a whim and announced it in Tipperary South because he is under pressure.
- Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Of course, I do.
- Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Of course, he was, as the Taoiseach would be.
- Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach was not at the meeting. Deputy Hayes must have given him an inaccurate account of it.