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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: 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...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)
Mattie McGrath: A recent report by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, calling for a cull of 30% of cattle and sheep in Ireland is devastating. I ask for a debate in this Chamber. I also ask for a clear statement from the Taoiseach or Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, that this report will be binned and shredded, as it should be.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)
Mattie McGrath: We need a debate on this proposal because it would have a devastating impact on rural Ireland. A quadrupling of afforestation is also proposed. Does the Government want to close the gates on rural Ireland altogether? This report does not even deserve to be debated. The EPA, which is a publicly funded organisation-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)
Mattie McGrath: It cannot see the woods for the trees.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)
Mattie McGrath: It has many issues. I ask the Taoiseach to condemn this report as scaremongering.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)
Mattie McGrath: Morale is on the floor in An Garda Síochána. The issue is not compulsory retirement but people are flocking away from the job. I salute Garda Pat Kelly who recently finished his term in Carrick-on-Suir. The number of gardaí in Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel, Cahir and Cashel is appallingly and frighteningly low. How far will the Government leave this go before it gives proper...