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| ORDER OF BUSINESS 22-05-2013
22/05/2013 14:50:21
Deputy Mattie McGrath: When the Water Services [Amendment] Act 2012 was announced, we were promised that there would be local employment and work for businesses. Nobody can seem to get any-----
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| “Hearings on abortion are a mockery of impartial scrutiny,” McGrath
22/05/2013 10:11:39
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has expressed his profound sense of frustration at the way the hearings of the Health Committee into the Protection of Life Bill are being conducted. Deputy McGrath was speaking as the Committee resumed its work today in hearing from experts in the fields of medical law and medical ethics:
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| FÁS Local Training Initiatives Expenditure-Order of Business
21/05/2013 15:13:50
FÁS Local Training Initiatives Expenditure
Deputy Mattie McGrath: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this important issue. I feel I am repeating my words because on 27 September 2012, I raised the same questions. There may have been a different context because it related to workers getting paid proper redundancy, but I referred to the ongoing scandal of the abandoned hostel project in Tipperary town. I gather Pobal, FÁS and the Garda Síochána are conducting investigations, but this has been going on for three and a half years. I was informed on 27 September, eight months ago, that we could expect some results soon. At the time, we were promised the FÁS report by April 2013, but now we have been told it will not be available until the summer. This beggars belief in a modern-day democracy with accountability.
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| “Stena Line have led the way, time for Roadstone to follow,” McGrath
21/05/2013 15:09:20
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has warmly welcomed the offer of Stena Line to provide reductions of up to 20 per cent on Stena’s Irish Sea crossings to hauliers who are importing fodder through ICSA. The preferential rates came about following a meeting between a delegation from the ICSA and senior Stena representatives in Dublin yesterday:
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