Results 1-20 of 73 for waste management speaker:Mattie McGrath

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...the governance of the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, in Tipperary to the attention of the Minister of State and head of services. These are very concerning with regard to the management and practices within the organisation. The concerns that have been brought to my attention are extremely worrying, and the most disappointing thing about all this is that our young...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...being allowed to go on is shocking. We have been told by the Minister for Health that the trolley numbers are falling. They certainly are not falling in our region. The numbers beggar belief. A lot of it has to be down to bad management. The management must be held accountable. They are unable to manage. We must question the employment of some of these managers, and what experience...

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...knows that something is wrong. Somebody quoted figures earlier and said that spending has increased by €800 million, or 40%, since 2019. It might be true but this is not about money. It is about mismanagement and pure neglect of rural and urban areas. GPs are not valued or respected. They have an ever-increasing workload. In my county, there are advertisements on Tipp FM and...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...number would be recruited. Where does that lie now? It is in tatters. What good is making an agreement with people if unilateral decisions like this can be made? The Government will not look at where the waste is. I refer to the scandalous waste at the top. What about the commitments to roll out boards and different kinds of initiatives? What about strategic working groups and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It is the same pattern all over the country - a reckless, careless, unanswerable cabal that does not care about anybody. The waste, subterfuge and deceit is disgusting. We have seen it in RTÉ in the past number of weeks but it is worse in the HSE. The wages and the management are shocking. I called it out the last day I was here about Carrick-on-Suir. I support the groups. It is a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...hospitals there and to help priests build churches. That is fine. When I first entered politics, the HSE had a turnover of about €1.5 billion. Now it is nearly €25 billion. There is such waste. I am glad that Ms Mullins gave an overview of this white elephant. I will visit it. They built that - and I put this to the architect - with no lift. It is hard to imagine a...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...all of this happening and the great money that is being spent on the URDF and all of that, the Government has set up the Office of the Planning Regulator, there is the Land Development Agency and the CEOs - county managers – so there is absolutely no power now for the county councillors. We have a situation with our own county development plan where a long-existing crèche...

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...and a shame. Children are placed on never-ending waiting lists with no communication. They are left to the winds. It is not fair. There is a revolving door, with staff, including therapists and managers, leaving as quickly as they are recruited. There is no accountability or response from senior management, let alone from the Ministers or the Department of Health. There are 1,100...

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...debate. We are all worried about the future of education. I have children and grandchildren in all strands of education, from naoíra to third level. Funding will be a problem. There is a lot of waste. I have been involved in many school projects and have been on boards of management. When an ASD unit costs upwards of €1 million there is something wrong. It is too much...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...can. In some instances, it is not possible. I note it is for caring purposes. I wear the Carers Association's badge i gcónaí. It is a wonderful organisation. Apart from the organisation as it is only trying to manage and advocate, I have not an exact figure for the number of carers up and down the length and breadth of this country but it is quite a large and shocking...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak on this issue. I have huge concerns about Irish Water. I have fond respect for county council management from the time I was on the council. I salute some of them who have gone on to their eternal reward and some who are still working in it, including engineers, ordinary water caretakers and council outdoor staff and, indeed, indoor staff who did, and who do, a...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...ones and grandparents when they should be at school or taobh amuigh ag súgradh, out playing. It is not fair to them. There are many anomalies. Carers do such valuable work. Then there is the wasteful HSE with people getting over half a million euro. It is totally out of touch with, and tone deaf to, what is happening in the country. The Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, and his...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...;l Martin, is talking about setting up another citizens' assembly. This is a citizens' assembly anseo. I have the privilege of being elected here for the time being and so has the Minister. This is a citizens' assembly. There is no talk about the cost of the citizens' assemblies. The waste of money is just phenomenal. The Government closed down all the peat plants and the coal...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Foetal Pain Relief) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...-term abortions is not something that can be left to chance. We have to guarantee that it happens. It belongs in primary legislation, despite what others might say. Deputy Pringle accused those bringing forward this compassionate Bill of time wasting but one must ask where is his moral compass and that of other Deputies. This debate belongs in this House and we are entitled to propose...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...for 2020. That is not to mention what they have spent this year which we are just coming to the close of. I shudder to think we have so little capacity in our ICUs and that it has been so little increased. The waste has been shocking. The Government has failed to build up hospital bed capacity and ICU capacity despite being given the huge resources, as I said, and huge additional...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...on the bogs of Offaly. EirGrid, the operator of the transmission system, announced amber alerts about the supply of electricity on the national grid on 11 September 2020, 6 January 2021 and 27 May 2021. We trust it with managing power. When I was on the communications committee back in 2007, 2008 or 2009 and the Minister was the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...the vaccines? They are front-line workers. They could not be more on the front line. I do not have a big issue if five or six leftover vaccines are administered to people. Surely it is better than wasting them. The vaccines should not be wasted. Valerie is a middle-aged woman who had a serious accident when she was a young girl and got an award. An exceptional care team was put...

Central Mental Hospital (Relocation) Bill 2020: Second Stage (10 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...and listened to us. She has also visited the facility in Kilkenny, which was brought through an atrocious court case. Atrocious things happened there because the facility is understaffed, poorly managed and lacks resources. That has changed. The Minister of State said something to us that I dispute furiously, as do all of us; she found it was under-capacity. It is not under-capacity....

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...but it could be road builders, electricians or anyone else. It is important that we keep such people active and ready to go for when they are wanted. The VAT cut is too little and too late. Dropping from 13.5% to 9% is a wasted exercise. Those businesses are closed in the current lockdown, and there will be more lockdowns if the powers that be in NPHET get their way. According to a...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: .... They do not have any information about the break they were supposed to get. Those rates must be paid as well. The councils do not have a cent, but there is plenty to pay the spin masters. I refer to the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. When the late Deputy Brian Lenihan, God rest him, set up NAMA I said in this House that it was like releasing a wild animal in the woods....