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Report of the Committee of Public Accounts: Motion (30 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...contracts and the two-tier contract that was given to BAM. At the time, BAM International expressed a concern about the low price that BAM Ireland quoted for the hospital. That is a matter of public record. We are where we are. The cost went from €200 million to €400 million, up to €600 million and then to €1.7 billion. Jimmy Sheehan built the Galway Clinic...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...Deputy McNamara, was developing our natural resources. They were men of forward thinking. As he said, many were injured or lost their lives in accidents when developing our resources, but they had the foresight. We are where we are now because of the latter-day emperor with no clothes, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, who has a second...

Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...Brian Hayes. There should be a moratorium and a space of at least five years between people leaving Government and becoming gamekeeper turned poacher or poacher turned gamekeeper. It is horrible. We are where we are. That says it all. If it was 1 April that would say something. This morning the Taoiseach told the House that we did not bail out the banks. That is something I voted...

Agrifood and Rural Development: Motion (24 Sep 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...on the Beef Plan Movement, which had to go to ground. Then the Government told us it had no one to talk to. Independent Farmers of Ireland came forward and sent people to talk and, thankfully, we are where we are. The Minister cobbled together an agreement. It is a tús maith. It is a good start and we have to work to it. The Minister of State said that all the stakeholders,...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We have gone past the stage at which we had to abandon proceedings last night. We have come back and the Ceann Comhairle has made a ruling. We are where we are but we are going around in circles. We are sending the Bill to the Seanad and expecting it to fix our problems. I know it will come back to Committee Stage here in the House but clearly we are sending out conflicting messages. One...

Childcare Support Bill 2017: Second Stage (31 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...is being pushed, manoeuvred and manipulated to try to ensure the last place children are minded is in the home. We have so many homeless and then we try to undermine the homes we have. We have a lot to learn in this. I know the Minister is new; I expected different and better from her. However, we are where we are, as the saying goes. I appeal to her to make haste slowly here, go...

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...of the people of Northern Ireland voted to remain. However, they are unfortunately not a part of Ireland at the moment. I wish that they were and we all aspire to a Thirty-two County Republic, but we are where we are and the situation is grim. We cannot have a hard border. In early September, I travelled from Bosnia-Herzegovina to Croatia via a motorway that had only recently been...

Media Ownership Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...Fáil. We might organise a training course for them on how to vote because it seems that they will be abstaining again tonight. There are three voting buttons in here and perhaps they are confused. We are where we are with the media. There is some open and honest reporting by journalists but at editorial level, that is not happening. I have seen that in so many areas. I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid Grid25 Project: Discussion (20 Nov 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...the EirGrid document that does not mention the elephant in the room. We have had groups in front of the committee before, and it is a pity that the national group has not been set up yet, but we are where we are with that. I believe the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources has signed a memorandum of understanding with our British counterparts who will be served by...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...had misappropriated money. In actual fact, in a court case today a senior official admitted the Government paid too much for advertising. Easy for it when it did not have to raise the money, but we are where we are. This Bill is an effort to continue the mockery and charade that protects the so-called rich, the blackguards, the so-called developers, bankers, former politicians and...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: ...what the standards and regulations would be. There would have been a sense of fairness. I understand the Government's position and that it inherited this legislation from previous Governments, but we are where we are. People must be made to comply. It cannot be stated strongly enough that every politician and 99.9% of rural and urban dwellers want clean water, to which they have a...

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Mattie McGrath: We are where we are.

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)

Mattie McGrath: ...are entitled. We have ended up as we are; there is no point engaging in the blame game. We should have accepted more responsibility and some humility would not have done us any harm. The fact is we are where we are and the IMF is in the country in the guise of helping us out. However, it is not helping us out but is out to protect the euro for the Europeans. We are all interested in...