The Dealer hears that independent TD Mattie McGrath and Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly engaged in some heated tractor talk during a recent Dáil debate on the second stage of the Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2015. And the good news is that they are going to share some tractor stories.
Mattie was citing the case of a Tipperary man who was pulled for not having a tachograph when bringing bales to Castlebar. Commenting on this ridiculous situation, Mattie asked: “Are we going to go back to the fair days when we had to hunt the cattle to the marts? Will we have to walk them from Nenagh to Portroe or Clonmel to Cashel with bulls and all on the road?”
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Mattie then invited Minister Kelly to come and sit up in his tractor someday. He said that he had a spare seat in it but he told the Minister that there is no place for a tachograph. Minister Kelly quickly quipped back that he had a tractor himself and he suggested that Mattie and he should compare tractors some time.
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The Dealer hears that independent TD Mattie McGrath and Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly engaged in some heated tractor talk during a recent Dáil debate on the second stage of the Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2015. And the good news is that they are going to share some tractor stories.
Mattie was citing the case of a Tipperary man who was pulled for not having a tachograph when bringing bales to Castlebar. Commenting on this ridiculous situation, Mattie asked: “Are we going to go back to the fair days when we had to hunt the cattle to the marts? Will we have to walk them from Nenagh to Portroe or Clonmel to Cashel with bulls and all on the road?”
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Mattie then invited Minister Kelly to come and sit up in his tractor someday. He said that he had a spare seat in it but he told the Minister that there is no place for a tachograph. Minister Kelly quickly quipped back that he had a tractor himself and he suggested that Mattie and he should compare tractors some time.
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