Results 11,841-11,860 of 20,803 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (31 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the poor broadband service and deteriorating mobile coverage in County Tipperary; and the measures he will take to improve same. [24178/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (31 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The broadband service is non-existent in many areas, as the Minister knows, and the mobile coverage on all networks has become a complete joke. In my county, people could have good conversations ten years ago but now they cannot make or continue any conversation due to the calls dropping out. It is appalling.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (31 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I know the Minister appreciates how fundamentally important this matter is, not only to households but to the economic rejuvenation of rural regions and the very survival of small rural businesses. I note that, at the beginning of the month, the Minister gave an interview to the Irish Independentin which he was asked whether we should have a universal service obligation for broadband. In...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (31 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: There were announcements followed by announcements but we then had the loss of a competing company. I have asked before that the Minister would buy back Eir because there is no one to deliver this on the ground and we have an antiquated system. We cannot do business either on the road or at home.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (31 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I acknowledge and share the Minister's frustration. My own iPhone has no data and I cannot make or hold calls whereas I could do that ten years ago. A con is being perpetrated on the public. We are paying fees and taxpayers' money is going into this. Fees are being waived while the masts are going up but there is no service. It is like liquorice allsorts, where you pick out the nicest...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (31 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Why is it going backwards?
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Under the programme for Government, I want to raise supports for special needs education. The Minister for Education and Skills came to Clonmel two weeks ago and announced about 600 new special needs assistants, SNAs. On the same day, the teaching and SNA staff in St. Mary's CBS in Irishtown, Clonmel, were told that they were being cut drastically. That school caters for boys from first to...
- Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am privileged to have the honour of contributing on this matter. I thank and welcome Lucia, her husband and her daughters to the House. She has been here many times. I salute the tenacity and endurance shown by her and her family in trying to get justice, not only for her son, Shane, but also for many other victims of heinous crimes. People describe the incident in 2011 as an...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course he did.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It never paid.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Adjourn the House.
- Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Why did the Deputy get rid of it?
- Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I respect the inquiry and, indeed, Dr. Scally but people are concerned and there are huge issues relating to this area. A family in Tipperary have contacted me to say that they have been waiting for six weeks for answers from the helpline. They are looking for information on their sister, who is deceased. Nothing will bring her back. Just ten minutes ago, the family were told that they...
- Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: That is not good enough.
- Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, welcome the opportunity to comment briefly on the appointment of a member to GSOC. The current arrangement, in terms of the relationship between An Garda Síochána and GSOC, is not as effective as might be the case. There remain many areas of contention between both organisations. I do not think anybody would dispute that. In April, Niall O'Connor reported that the...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy does not want to hear the answers.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We want to hear the Minister.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: That is ridiculous.