Results 201-220 of 689 for garda speaker:Mattie McGrath

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...the House to debate the legislation again before it is extended. We need to look out for the mental health and well-being of our people. Various counselling services are in place and helplines have been set up. The Garda Síochána are doing a great job. Postmen, fir an phoist agus mná an phoist, everybody is helping out, including the alert groups, Neighbourhood Watch,...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: An Dara Céim - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (26 Mar 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...asking for impact analyses of how the normal legislation we pass here beds in. I like to call this wartime legislation because it is a war. It is a war against this virus and we must treat it as such. We must also support An Garda Síochána. It is wonderful to see retired members of An Garda and the armed forces volunteering to come back. They have great and valuable...

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: An Dara Céim - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Second Stage (19 Mar 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...be only for our volunteers and the magnificent people in the front line of our health services, our doctors and nurses? I have previously called them angels of mercy. Indeed, the same applies to An Garda Síochána, the Civil Defence, the Red Cross and all the volunteer organisations that have stepped up to the plate overwhelmingly in the past ten days. Ní neart go cur...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Dec 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...Members who left us during the year and went to Europe, as well as our work colleagues in our constituency offices. I thank the Captain of the Guard, the ushers, the canteen staff, cleaners, An Garda Síochána and everybody who is involved in this House. It is an honour and a privilege to be here. I hope Santy will come to the Taoiseach and enlighten him to give us the election...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...have funding approved for, or in some cases have, state-of-the-art for CCTV cameras. It is a very effective tool in protecting against crime. Our chief superintendent told us last week that the Garda cannot access this vital piece in the battle against crime and vagabonds of all sorts and against violence on our streets. This is farcical. I want the Taoiseach and Minister for Justice...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...is strong in its support for agri-industry. The Road Safety Authority, RSA needs be we reined in somewhat. I know of a contractor in west Tipperary who has been pulled in by the RSA and by An Garda Síochána twice and has been asked to have his trailer tested. He went to different test centres but the people there had never heard of such a test. He drove last week to Waterford...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ..., in a vulnerable position who are being targeted and whose future is selfishly and needlessly being taken from them. We need measures such as this Bill, but we also need many more community gardaí. That is why I am talking to the Minister. Community gardaí have built up and generated relationships of trust within local communities and families and they can steer children...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat. We are not giving the gardaí the tools of the trade. Drug use is increasing but the fear of being caught is decreasing. That is my point. Deputy Curran is doing an excellent job. He knows much more about this problem. I served in the Dáil with him in 2007 when he spoke about issues in Dublin city. We did not know what he was talking about at the time....

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...companies not to pay to charities what they are supposed to pay them. It was mentioned that they are not doing that. If that is the case, then it is for the Minister of State's Department and An Garda Síochána to enforce that legislation. Just because we did not enforce that legislation does not mean that we should introduce new legislation to deal with it. Regarding an...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The entire country is delighted that 200 new Garda recruits will leave Templemore tomorrow but those of us in Tipperary are in shock. The Commissioner came to Tipperary recently to listen to the joint policing committee, JPC, and all the Oireachtas Members who represent the area. The Minister, Deputy Flanagan, is aware of that as is the Minister's party. We are in a perilous situation in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (27 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the staff of the Houses and An Garda Síochána on behalf of the farmers. They asked me to thank them. They were treated courteously outside. I thank the people who brought out cups of coffee to them and the community people supporting them. I wish to challenge the Minister, Deputy Creed. If he does not come before the House to retract the outrageous slur he made...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (27 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...are farmers who are fed up with what is going on and they want answers. They want an apology from the Minister, Deputy Creed, for accusing them of being involved in threats. There was not even a Garda complaint filed in that area. He has misled the Dáil. He lied to the Dáil and he made a slur on the reputation of those good people. I want him to apologise in this House for that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Schools Amalgamation (19 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ..., and the people to come. We want a half decent - fully decent - proper, amalgamated national school with 16 rooms and facilities for pupils with special needs. It also has to have safe parking. I must salute An Garda Síochána, the traffic warden, and of course the parents on trying to manage the situation at the school, which is very difficult at peak times. There should be...

Inquiry into the death of Shane O’Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (12 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...restored to them, but they are doing this in the interests of other families and other people. I will not call it an accident. It was an incident of outrageous proportions, with the person having been stopped by gardaí only an hour beforehand. This person had been out of the country and was wanted in other jurisdictions. It is disgraceful. That is going on under the Ministers'...

Illegal Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...from 431 in 2004 to 736 in 2016. The value of drug seizures has also increased from €29,706,000 in 2016 to €71,859,000 in 2017. We all know of communities blighted by this scourge. The Garda and the health services do not have adequate resources or personnel to deal with the crisis. What is going on is shocking. A man was recently arrested in Tipperary after...

Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Decisions on Supervision Measures) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...know better than I do. He was a legal practitioner in his previous employment and he should understand it better than I do. The people are worried and scared. They are concerned that we are not supporting An Garda Síochána to enforce the law and not dealing properly with those issues. I wish this legislation well but there is much to be put right in our jurisdiction before we...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...to pay security to try to protect our front-line staff who must be protected. We will have to consider taking those people elsewhere. I have an idea where I would send them, particularly if they are repeat offenders. They take up Garda, security and everyone's time. The terror they perpetrator in the accident and emergency unit, in the hospital and on the patients, young and old, is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...is fit for purpose in its current form. An audit carried out by Dr. Geoffrey Shannon, the very well-respected special rapporteur on child protection, found that communication between Tusla and An Garda Síochána was poor, with limited levels of inter-agency co-operation and co-ordination between them falling far short of international best practice. This is standard practice all...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...the Minister said, Tusla has been in place for five years now. As I said at the time, many officials were simply hived off from the HSE and left to their own devices. Parents deal with Tusla, An Garda Síochána and the courts by themselves. The Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice is a group that has come together because its members are not getting a fair crack of...

Pre-European Council: Statements (16 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...are going on there. It has mushroomed. They got a carte blanchefree-for-all up there. They should not have because now we see it culminating in horrific violence being perpetrated on those officials. There was the closure of Garda stations and RUC stations. There was nothing. We did not want to see massive checkpoints in Forkhill in south Armagh, in Caledon and every place else, but...