Results 19,161-19,180 of 20,830 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 585. To ask the Minister for Health where a person (details supplied) presents as homeless but is suffering from mental health difficulties, what supports are immediately available in south Tipperary to avoid possible harm to oneself; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51122/23]

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I was going to say that I welcome this report, but I do not because this consultative forum should never have been engaged with. There was a four-day roadshow and fanfare for the Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin, 16 panels and a dame from the House of Lords to chair the forum. Was there no one fit to chair it in an tír seo? This man is running it by himself. I know now why...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Around the House and mind the dresser.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, want to speak to the amendment. I have listened to Deputies across the House saying that there are so many initiatives coming from the Department that we cannot keep up with them. I am not saying it is devoid of ideas but it certainly needs to do an impact assessment on many of the schemes it has brought out. I welcome many of the schemes, but the councils do not have the staff to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Government claims to be pro-business. It rushed through and guillotined the finance Bill last night. Many measures, the Government said, are pro-business. I have an ESB bill here from a family business in Tipperary. It is a respected and well-run business, a public house. The bill is for €3,208 for the period from the middle of August to the end of September, when the weather...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It gives with one hand and takes with the other.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What is this charge?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What is this charge?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Answer my question.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What is this new charge?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome our guests and thank them for all the work they have done, especially during and since Covid, in trying to support artists. The industry stopped during Covid. It did get a great deal of funding, but, unfortunately, that did not filter down to the artists in many cases. Senator Warfield stated that what we were talking about was a different Ireland than the one found in Dublin....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Have the witnesses a plan or roadmap?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: On the basis of the Taoiseach's replies during Leaders' Questions, I call once again for a reasonable and rational debate on inward migration, including on illegal and undocumented people coming here. I do not want any lectures from the liberal left here. I have been asking for this reasonable debate for months at meetings of the Business Committee. If we are to really examine issues, we...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: There is a very thin line between anarchy and good living. I support gardaí in their efforts always and, indeed, last Thursday night. Shamefully, however, the numbers of gardaí in my county have dropped to an appalling level. Carrick-On-Suir, with 5,000 in its town and hinterland, has four gardaí and two sergeants. Its complement is 14 gardaí and four sergeants. Up in...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The brutal and unprovoked stabbings of innocent children, two girls aged five and six and a boy aged five, and the innocent crèche worker, Leanne Flynn, who used her body as a human shield outside Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire last week, are shocking. Our thoughts and prayers are with the five-year-old girl who remains in critical condition in the hospital and the care worker who was...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste announced a consultative forum last week. He and his cabals of NGOs are getting away with so much, and he wants to set up another in the form of a citizens' assembly. Is citizens' assembly é an Teach seo. We are elected to a citizens' assembly. The Tánaiste is subverting democracy by trying to do what he is doing instead of backing up our Army. I was here...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom mo chomhghairdeas a ghabháil leis an Teachta Shanahan ó Phort Láirge. I commend and congratulate Deputy Shanahan from my neighbouring constituency on this very insightful, thoughtful and necessary legislation. Our group is wholeheartedly supporting it. We have a litany of issues. It is probably repetitive at this stage. We...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: There is now a chronic situation in the Department of Health and the HSE with many families waiting for crucial appointments and procedures. We now have a situation going on for ten weeks where the Fórsa trade union is on a kind of work-to-rule. We cannot get answers to parliamentary questions or to our representations so that the public out there are being left bewildered. We cannot...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Government for this funding for this vital industry and fully support it. Both industries are so vital but I will speak today about the horse industry and the prowess we have had in Tipperary, all over the world and in other parts of Ireland. I want to make remarks on the greyhound industry because it is vital. It used to be a cottage industry. Every small farmer in south...