Results 1-20 of 19,973 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: No value for money.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: To paraphrase the famed song for Kilcash, cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan uisce? Water, and the work of Irish Water, is an appalling problem in Clonmel, south Tipperary and all over the country. I welcome to the Gallery Geraldine and Paddy, one of my office staff, who is on to Irish Water continuously. All our staff are on to Irish Water, but it is like writing to the North Pole. The...
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I have been here all evening and have annoyed the clerks by asking how many more speakers there are. Why are they not on the list? We are always told our names have to be on the list to speak. It looks like a charade, walks like a charade and is a charade. Nothing short of it.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: It is a game.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Our group is concerned about the late hours for the staff. It is crazy and ridiculous to have that both nights this week. This is a distasteful game. It was hidden during the election three weeks ago. We saw the rush when the motion was proposed in late April to get it done by 9 May. That backfired and when people were getting it in the neck on the doors the motion was postponed....
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: It is questionable-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Yes I am. This is the trick. It is a trick of the loop because I honestly believe the Government might be short of numbers tonight and it is afraid to hold a vote. There was no consultation with the Whips - not with me anyway.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Of course I want more time because it is a very serious issue. I want a referendum but it is being played around with. It was buried for three weeks during the elections to get the next one over and fool the people and now the Government is trying to fool all of us here too.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Because the Government is playing games, yes.
- International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The Government is telling us it will.
- International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Of course it was curtailed.
- International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: It was a charade, with NGOs-----
- International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----
- International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy has been addressing me for minutes but I did not hear the first part of his address because I was talking to the Ceann Comhairle's good self. I stood up to ask for clarification because I had not realised the Deputy was addressing me. The debate was a charade. There was a line of NGOs telling us what they wanted us to hear, and NGOs are running the country, so it was a pure...
- International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: You should have got a drone.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: On a day when Áine Donnelly, a former garda, and her former Garda colleagues are visiting the Dáil, many of them of the rank of inspector or superintendent, I wish to speak on behalf of the gardaí of Clonmel in south Tipperary. The Garda station in Clonmel is Dickensian, with no sign of it going to tender. We also have the worst numbers ever in Clonmel. Carrick-on-Suir has...
- Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The Government has been doing this for 18 months. It is political. The Government parties are not accepting the motion, yet-----
- Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: It is not agreed. They are accepting the motion mar dhea and then talking against it . We will have to force a vote.
- Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: We have to.