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Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...and in urban areas as well. There is danger to life and limb due to car accidents and cars are being destroyed. The Government will not address that at all because of the do-gooders, all these so-called environmentalists who want to lecture us and tell us we are backward, stupid, dirty or somehow not up to it. We are up to it and the farmers of Ireland are well up to it. The Government...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Diseases (1 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...this disease is confined to national parks? Most importantly, why is the NPWS not asking for a cull - by gassing - of all rabbits within a five-mile radius of the affected areas, as was done with badgers during the bovine TB epidemic? What is going on in the Department? Many people are suspicious. As rabbits are classed as vermin, the obvious reason for not culling, or for not calling...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...providing it. They are not anarchists who do not allow free speech and prevent everyone else from doing things any way other than their own way. There is nothing worse than liberals who cannot get their way. They are very demanding, badgering, insulting to other people and bullying. There is nothing worse than them. We hear them here every day of the week. There is nothing worse than...

Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...it. The Garda and superintendent Pat O'Connor have studied electronic tagging and I am sure the Minister and her officials are aware of it. I am not comparing humans to animals but in Scotland there was a study that used electronic tags on badgers to help combat bovine TB. The tags enabled the tracing of the badgers through the land and the checking of times. It shows how easy it would...

Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...of taxis in our cities and that the number of taxis in rural areas and small towns was insufficient. Come hell or high water, nothing could convince the then Minister to change things. I recall badgering the former Minister for Transport, Noel Dempsey, and pleading and fighting with him to introduce change. I did not realise quite how bad things were until I arrived in Dublin in 2007...

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Mattie McGrath: ...which we want to protect. I invite anybody to come, and if they want to picket it is a free society, but I ask them to come and see what goes on during the festival. Two years ago I was appalled when so-called "animal rights" people cut the wire and released the hares which were in fields waiting for the coursing. They were not waiting of their own free will, but they were in fields...