Results 281-300 of 689 for garda speaker:Mattie McGrath

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...in fear. Among those who attended the meeting last night were people from the constituency of the Minister for Agriculture, food and the Marine, Deputy Michael Creed, who also feel abandoned. The Garda Síochána wants to do its work but it needs the tools of the trade to do so. The issue of free legal aid must be tackled and also the bail laws. Nothing is happening and the...

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...drafted and I did not deviate from it - he would know that the case I quoted went on for decades or more. Over 30 people could corroborate and support the allegations, but there was no investigation by An Garda Síochána. HSE case workers, social workers and district nurses were all in fear of this person who was said to be abusing his unfortunate mother while her shoulder was...

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...the presence of their youngest brother. Can we imagine? The days prior to her final hospital visit also deeply unsettled the neighbours. The lady claimed to me, and it was subsequently verified, that the Garda never questioned the brother who was being accused of the abuse. This was despite the fact that the elderly mother was found tied up in her bedroom by a neighbour who needed some...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...might remember that. He was around this House and I was an active member of Fianna Fáil at the time. The findings truly are grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented. The most senior garda in the State, someone with access to the most sensitive information possible, was found to have conducted a campaign of terror against an innocent member of the rank and file, Sergeant...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government commits to support An Garda Síochána. I know Deputy Michael Healy-Rae raised it. In Tipperary there is a huge division. I wish the new Commissioner well, but I want the Minister to clarify comments he made on overtime. With the evenings now drawing in, people are frightened in their homes. We have got very few of the new recruits to have come out of...

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...of this legislation is to give greater support and protection to victims of sexual violence, gender-based violence or violence in a close relationship in circumstances where they make a complaint to An Garda Síochána. It will also seek to amend section 17 of the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017 in order that where victims of sexual violence make a complaint, they...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...tape surrounding it that they will not be able to draw it down. I refer to crime and justice. I said last night that the situation on that front is unbelievable. There was a lot of rhetoric and we have a new Garda Commissioner. I wish him well. The gardaí who are our front-line defence had their overtime restricted in September and face cuts for the rest of the year. There is...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...operations but we cannot have them for our own people. We send them up to Belfast. The Government has failed to grasp the nettle on housing, health and justice. Deputy Michael Healy Rae mentioned the Garda Síochána. In Tipperary, there have been huge cuts to overtime. We expect gardaí to be the peace line between us and anarchy. I salute them for the work they do. In...

Children's Health Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...nurses. The Minister of State met them too. Did he listen to them? In such situations, the nurses scream at the drivers asking how long more when they are clogged up in traffic despite the sirens and Garda escorts. No one listened. That was four and five years ago when traffic was low on account of the downturn in the economy. The nurses were screaming and trying to do their best,...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...hÉireann, the people involved in microbrewery businesses and those who want to sell alcohol over the counter in licensed premises. Licences are placed behind the bar and can be inspected by the Garda or anybody else at any time. There are also health and safety and food inspections. We are crippling ordinary businesses. I accept we are doing so with good intentions. I am not...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...alcohol, tea, coffee, MiWadi, orange drinks or lemonade is in a respectable public house, where there are measures in place and where there are licences up behind the counters so that members of An Garda Síochána can come in and check it. Publicans have to keep their house in order, and 99% of them do that. However, we are literally closing those places down by virtue of this...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...councils had 744 members. These were decent people working for a pittance. They were the servants of the people on the ground. They were members of the joint policing committees, JPCs. They were able to help An Garda Síochána solve crime. They were able to help with the Tidy Towns competitions. They were able to help with planning matters and many other issues. Most of...

Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: .... The cost is passed on in higher premiums and people can go to hell or to Connacht. People are beyond breaking point. The insurance companies need to be taught a huge lesson and brought to the table. For over two years An Garda Síochána has had a report on the issue. It tried to get industry representatives to sit down and engage in quarters one, two, three and four. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (7 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 454. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the new Garda station in Clonmel will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35724/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (7 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 455. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the costs associated with operating the Garda safety camera contract; the receipts it has generated in each of the past six years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35725/18]

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...farmers and business people. They are using a third force militia. We saw what happened in Balbriggan. Former British Army personnel arrived wearing balaclavas and knuckle dusters and beat the living daylights out of a family, and the gardaí stood and watched them do that. They parked their vehicles in Balbriggan Garda station. For what did the men of 1916 die? Where is our...

Pathway to Redress for Victims of Convicted Child Sexual Abusers: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...on behalf of the State. I appeal to the Ministers to be more compassionate, to enter the modern era and to examine why so many children continue to be referred to the Child and Family Agency, the Garda and other social services.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...been a huge increase year on year. In 2014, it was 2,000, then it increased to 4,000. These people are roaming around, and all they have to do while they await an assessment, is sign on at a local Garda station. The Garda stations are not there, and there are no gardaí in them. This is farcical. Some 14,000 people have attempted to come in illegally, and we are talking about what...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...000: I do not know and the Minister will not tell us. Has he asked his departmental officials? Has he asked the RSA? I know there are problems with getting information back and forth between the Garda and the RSA with one of them blaming the other and they cannot get accurate details to answer parliamentary questions which is ridiculous in a democracy. They should be a public service...

Commission of Investigation: Motion (26 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the establishment of the commission of investigation into the allegations of collusion between the HSE, formerly the South Eastern Health Board, Basketball Ireland, An Garda Síochána and a senior cleric in the Waterford and Lismore diocese. For the victims of Bill Kenneally, this traumatic saga has been dragging on for almost three decades. I thank the Minister for...