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Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: How come? Surely they had to get planning permission to build it, and adjacent to, if not in, a floodplain. Surely that should have come up in planning.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: And yet they are saying that they can raise the hospital by 1 ft.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Briefly, I am reading from a report here that the action committee have. The evacuation report from the HSE dated 2019 raised no such issues of evacuation. It is fine that Mr. Ruane talks of moving patients into different rooms. Patient safety is so important. However, we cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. It is an old building and one cannot apply new standards to old...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am not withdrawing it. It is a total cover-up, full stop.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The backbenchers have been rounded up to come in and defend the Government. It is a laughing stock.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: There is too much shifting sand. Are we going to get the reports?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We have not received them.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I know that.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I cannot. I have been dealing with people in Carrick-on-Suir on this issue. It was taking away for-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It was good enough for Covid.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I know that. It was good enough for a Covid step-down facility. After Covid, it suddenly was not good enough. Someone has to-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We give our opinions all day long. That is my opinion.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Ar aghaidh libh. I am not withdrawing it. Thank you.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have to leave anyway because I am going into the Chamber. I appreciate the Chair letting me contribute, but I will not withdraw it. My firm belief-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I will leave the meeting.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Who was the genius who decided to build it there and denied there was space, which I do not believe? There is ample space both at the back of and at the front of the building. According to the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, we will not be driving cars, so we will not need the car parking space. It is a huge area. There is balderdash that old buildings and new buildings cannot be tied...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment Sinn Féin on bringing forward this motion. This motion should not be necessary and the Ministers should have the heart and the empathy with the people to support them. These are hard-working people who are carrying the weight of the bank bailout. I called it the bank cleanout at the time. What happened at the time was daylight robbery. All those bankers and bondholders...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Can it be extended?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of my Rural Independent colleagues I too want to express our sympathy and thank all the groups supporting the earthquake victims. The deer overpopulation situation is alarming throughout rural Ireland and parts of urban Ireland. There is actually a deer consultation open at the moment which closes this Friday. The lack of awareness, getting the message out about this...