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- Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I am quoting from her statement.
- Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I have it up on my phone.
- Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Do not be wasting my time. I am quoting from a statement.
- Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I would not do it otherwise. It is a statement. This is the problem with the Government, with its head in its hands. It is a problem it has failed to deal with and it sticks in my craw to hear Deputies from Sinn Féin, who were good at the petrol bombs, and their groups and rewarders, and burning down places. Nobody wants a place burned down. I condemn from the bottom of my heart...
- Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas le Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion tonight. I sympathise with Deputy Michael Collins, his partner, Val, his own children, Eileen, Marie and young Michael, and his sister, the mother of that young man. I know how the Deputy was so fond of him. I was present when he had many phone calls with him over the past number of months. I know how hard Deputy...
- Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I have reservations about this legislation. I understand and respect the bona fides of Teachta Joan Collins but as a small employer running a family business employing up to 25 people, I know the relationship between workers and their employers is very important. We see so much going on today with big businesses. I also accept the bona fides of the Minister of State but there is a front...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Farmers, farm organisations, Irish rural groups and the Rural Independent Group have been calling for an extension to the hedge cutting season. Today is normally the last day of February, but with the leap year, there is an extra day tomorrow. As the Minister knows, last summer was the wettest summer on record. From July onwards, hedges were cut in some cases and cannot be removed from...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: You will not extend the date.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (28 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to raise a point of order under Standing Order 54 relating to the adequacy of replies. I wish to raise my concerns about the continued inadequate replies to parliamentary questions from the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. I have already emailed my concerns about this to the Ceann Comhairle's office. A number of questions put to the Minister have...
- RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat.
- RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: When the Minister gave her speech here today, she said that she wanted RTÉ to be "independent and accountable". We all know they are neither independent nor accountable. It is not fully the Minister's fault, as successive Government have neglected to deal with RTÉ because it suited them. More and more in the past while, and especially during Covid, RTÉ became just a total...
- RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: What about "The Riordans"?
- RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: They are not woke now.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Ambulance Service (29 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: 3. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a local recruitment campaign is carried out in south Tipperary for the National Ambulance Service; if the NAS will commit to providing a recruitment officer to visit schools and attend job recruitment seminars locally and develop local advertising to improve recruitment prospects in south Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Ambulance Service (29 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a local recruitment campaign is carried out for the National Ambulance Service in south Tipperary and if the NAS will commit to improving recruitment processes, providing a recruitment officer to attend job recruitment seminars and visit local schools and developing an advertising campaign to recruit ambulance personal for south Tipperary.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Ambulance Service (29 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The national recruitment campaign has not led to significant improvements in staffing levels in south Tipperary. I also compliment the very hard work and dedicated service all the ambulance services provide across the country. What is difficult is that there are no efforts to recruit locally. The Minister said there was a recruitment campaign but the 45 km rule means that paramedics will...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Ambulance Service (29 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The main issue is local recruitment, which the National Ambulance Service has not undertaken seriously in south Tipperary for a number of years. The only recruitment is what south Tipperary ambulance personnel have done themselves but they have limited local resources and the staff are under constraints due to the number of vacancies. The National Ambulance Service needs to be in schools...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: And Dee Forbes.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus fáiltím roimh an Aire agus roimh na daoine eile. Who appointed the board of RTÉ?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister has the final responsibility.