Results 201-220 of 308 for cork speaker:Mattie McGrath

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ..., two months of which were spent in a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital that was more than one hour from her home. During this time my daughter and son-in-law had to live in a home away from home in Cork. They were accommodated in the wonderful facility that is Brú Columbanus which allowed them to be near their daughter in hospital. In this regard, their life was to a...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (4 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...the National Monuments Service would be opposed to the placement of a cantilever style pedestrian bridge onto the side of the bridge in the style of the one placed on Macroom Bridge in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16177/17]

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...and they have allowed it to be plundered. As I said during today's Leaders' Questions, the banks have been destroyed and we put €69 billion into them. Deputy Michael McGrath gave me a spin up from Cork on the fatal night of the bank bailout. I voted to rescue the banks. My God, it was some mistake. The banks gave us any figures they could to get us to bail them out. I will...

Minerals Development Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...communities during the period I was a member of a county council and prior to and subsequent to that. There is an issue currently with EirGrid where it is riding roughshod over a community stretching from Cork right down across Tipperary, parts of Waterford, Tipperary and into Kilkenny. We have had sham consultations and engagement. This legislation is not sufficiently robust to provide...

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...support and yet much of the time they are denied the chance to tender. The stuff is being taken away from them. Some of the stuff is coming from the lowest cross-tender. We heard of it happening in Cork yesterday on the radio with a new development. They got in the lowest tender - they have a habit of that - and now the contractors want to add €20 million on to it. That is...

Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...decision of the court. Again, this is vital in terms of transparency. One of the court cases I attended involved an unfortunate woman who was evicted from her home by bankers and receivers. I salute the kindness of the prison officers who brought her in a car from Cork Prison. She was going to go in as a lay litigant but then a barrister decided to take on her case. However, he was...

Roads Funding: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...of the total traffic. Think of those figures. It is time we had fair play. Former Ministers, Noel Dempsey and Martin Cullen, flew around in helicopters. The door even fell off the helicopter in Cork. They did not care about the people. They thought they were kings but now we are suffering from decades of neglect so it is important we get fair play. That is all we want. The Rural...

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...x20ac;800,000 to build new premises. That model can be transferred to this context in order to develop community care centres and supports for various initiatives already in the community. I have in mind Sr. Celestine from north Cork, the area from which the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, comes. Sr. Celestine is doing great work providing sheltered housing...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2016: Motion (14 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...do they need Government support and the generous tax regime Charlie Haughey introduced in his day to stimulate the industry when they can buy up every parcel of land that comes up for sale in Tipperary, Limerick, Waterford, Cork, Kilkenny, Kildare and beyond? They are not leaving a living for anybody else. We cannot support an industry that takes the lifeblood out of our communities,...

Courts Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...evictions create homelessness. No matter what we do in this House or what the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government announces or what rent caps he brings in for Dublin, Cork and other places, we are playing catch-up. The real problem is the 200,000 homes that are lined up for the families in them to be evicted. The buy-to-lets are also a problem. I do not...

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...but it goes on and works away and it is not accountable or made adaptable. Last weekend, I met a woman whose two daughters went to work as nurses in Australia. Representatives of the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork went to Australia to entice them to return to work in that hospital. They returned, yet we in Tipperary cannot get them. They travel from Tipperary to Cork every day and...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...Galway. My question is about South Tipperary General Hospital. A total of 41 people are on trolleys there today, which is the highest number in the country. It is a small hospital compared to Cork University Hospital, CUH, or Beaumont Hospital, so this is totally intolerable. Despite the money announced for the winter initiative nothing has happened to help the hospital. In spite of my...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Nov 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...Minister. He bulldozed Tipperary together and did not care what happened. He left a trail of disaster after him. Why did he not address Dublin at that time? He addressed Limerick, Waterford and Cork. At that time, Fine Gael had a large majority, and thought it could do what it liked and did so but the people sorted it out after that. I compliment those who proposed the Bill. I am...

Topical Issue Debate: Citizens Assembly (22 Nov 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...someone with a clearly stated position on one side of this controversial question. Even more problematic than Dr. Keane, however, is the presence of Professor Deirdre Madden from University College Cork. She has a long record on a range of issues related to human life and dignity. Professor Madden joined the commission on human reproduction set up by the former Minister, Deputy...

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...included in the small schools scheme; with the closure of that scheme they were under a serious threat. We must salute, honour and respect the pioneers. I want to a secondary school in Cahir where two men cycled from west Cork and opened a school. It was a private school but it was open to everybody. They imparted a wonderful education with no support from the Department. There are...

European Defence Agency: Motion (15 Nov 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...of enlisted personnel were forced to do this because they could not afford to drive home after work. It is true. With the closure of barracks in places like Clonmel, they now have to go to Kilkenny, Cork or further afield. PDFORRA has said that accommodation costs €2,500 a year, money that those who stay in their cars simply do not have. PDFORRA has also claimed that more than...

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...the country. That is bizarre. Those homes should be utilised. Where they are built, finished and ready, they should be used. The living city initiative, which is currently confined to parts of the cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and Kilkenny, must be extended and targeted at some of the country’s largest provincial towns, including Clonmel. The latter, which...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: .... The lady was not able to stand but the judge would not allow her sit. The treatment was degrading, insulting and disgusting. Thankfully, she is out now and living in Tipperary, although she is from Cork. One cannot hear a word that goes on in most courts. The judges do not care. It suits the barristers fine. They will do the talking while we pay up and shut up. It is terrible...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...with that situation in this legislation. We should have dealt with it. It sends out the wrong message and only proves what people know, namely, if one is a big business, one can do what one likes. It is the same in my county, east Cork, west Waterford and south Kilkenny with large racing conglomerates. They have done a great job with the racing and are buying up every perch of land....

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...Dublin gets everything. We are complaining with some justification that Dublin gets most of the cake. There is congestion and huge problems but if Deputy Broughan was living in Tipperary, east Cork or even south or north Kildare, not to mention Kerry, he would see that we get the crumbs. We do not even get the crumbs. We might get a bit of the vapour that blows off the mist from what...