Results 21-26 of 26 for buttimer speaker:Mattie McGrath

Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)

Mattie McGrath: Excuse me, how dare Deputy Buttimer say that. I asked the Ceann Comhairle to speak long before Deputy Buttimer came in. Deputy Buttimer is not in school now.

Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)

Mattie McGrath: I indicated long before Deputy Buttimer.

Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)

Mattie McGrath: I have people here who saw me indicate. I indicated long before Deputy Buttimer. I will not be told to shut up by Deputy Buttimer. I would love to see the money ring-fenced for health, especially for people suffering from poisoning from smoking and indulging in those practices. I would like to see this Government removing the fear and scaremongering about which nursing homes it is going...

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Nov 2011)

Mattie McGrath: I ask the Acting Chairman to allow me to continue. I know Deputy Buttimer is in a competition for the best heckler in this term of the Dáil and he is well on the way. He should allow me my opportunity and we will not interrupt him. I am pleased the Minister, Deputy Hogan, is here. I am also pleased that he has shown such an interest in many of these important issues. Deputy Tom Hayes, my...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2011)

Mattie McGrath: ...Ceann Comhairle is showing a very unfair bias towards that side of the House. Whether he cannot hear or whatever, I do not know, but it is most unnerving when these Deputies are heckling. Deputy Buttimer and Deputy Durkan are past masters at it on a daily basis.

An Bille um an Tríochadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Fiosruithe Thithe an Oireachtais) 2011 — An Dara Céim / Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Houses of the Oireachtas Inquiries) Bill 2011 — Second Stage (15 Sep 2011)

Mattie McGrath: ...of millions of euro but nobody can lift their reports let alone read them. The DIRT inquiry was an example of an Oireachtas inquiry which did good work in an efficient manner. Deputy Jerry Buttimer referred to the Whip system. I was a member of a committee in the last Dáil which sought to extend the remit of the lost at sea scheme. Although I was outside the Whip by that time, it was...