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Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...regulators from the Central Bank down and their staff. There is the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. They all have layers of management, senior, middle and junior and some of the Garda Síochána are involved in their processes as well but what did they achieve? They slept while Rome was burning. There was no accountability and no one held to account, which was...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The new report on that incident has not been finalised by the Garda. Their lives were taken in a serious incident which was not properly investigated. The Garda Síochána has no way of getting out to the bay. I fully support the Garda and I ask the Minister to please support the force and the traffic corps, in particular.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ..., Planning and Local Government, and others on different issues. I ask the Minister to address the matter of drug-driving tests. On the issue of drug-driving, I got a text message from a member of An Garda Síochána based in a station in a big town in rural Ireland with a picture of a box and a "Do Not Use" sign on it. I have asked about the number of drug-driving tests a few...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...That is where matters stand. His application was excellent. We have many issues with our roads besides what we are talking about and that tyre application is one solution. I want to salute An Garda Síochána regarding its work in Tipperary, Dublin and throughout the country and in Dublin. In particular, I salute the traffic corps. The numbers in the corps have sadly been...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister for Justice and Equality visited Clonmel Garda station, which I appreciate, when he went to the town to participate at a think-tank. The conditions in Clonmel station, for both gardaí and the public, are appalling. We have had announcement after announcement that work on the building would commence but, as is the case with Macroom station, there is a hold-up because of the...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...the directors of services. What they are getting would pay all the councils and the town council for one year. I am making this point very honestly. They gave dedicated service, looked after their people and supported the Garda and the Neighbourhood Watch. In respect of the 11 councillors in the town of Clonmel, they picked up the phone and rang them to get the lowdown on what was...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...our barracks and equipment, as well as soldiers' pay. When we have a flood, snow or any kind of emergency, they are the first line of defence. They are the first line of defence to support An Garda Síochána when there is trouble as well. We could do it much better. The Government has been caught with its pants down on this as it did not expect resistance at the Business...

Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...and should take place to take account of the recent revelations regarding the Department of Justice and Equality, Ministers for Justice and Equality past and present, the Attorney General's Office and An Garda Síochána. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Sinn Féin motion. It is timely and necessary given what we have learnt in recent days about the level of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (28 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to the Tipperary, Waterford and Carlow Kilkenny Garda divisions in the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50164/17]

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...than thugs. I was in the Minister of State's native county to see them in action. They represent a third force. It was like guerrilla warfare, with balaclavas and Alsatians. They were tearing down a house. When the Garda superintendent and inspector were asked to defend a woman standing at her own gate, they turned their backs. I met that superintendent in the Garda station in the...

Rural Crime: Motion (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...and his Fianna Fáil colleagues for putting down the motion on this issue. It is a huge issue and we are playing catch-up all the time after all the cuts over the recent years. Morale in An Garda Síochána - I am speaking for Tipperary - is on the floor because it does not have the necessary resources. It is the same for every officer who goes out there every day and...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Tánaiste tell the House how many times she met Sergeant McCabe and if he spoke to her about the serious efforts he believed were being undertaken by the then-Commissioner of An Garda Síochána to discredit him?

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There was only one meeting. Counsel for An Garda Síochána were raising serious matters, false allegations, against Sergeant McCabe at the time in an effort to discredit him, and his motivations for revealing serious misconduct within An Garda Síochána. Everyone was aware of this at the time from media reports and his own statements and also from meeting Sergeant McCabe...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The many of us who met Sergeant McCabe were aware that counsel for An Garda Síochána were raising serious matters of false allegations against Sergeant McCabe, which are in the public domain, in an effort to discredit his position in An Garda Síochána.

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: This infamous email was sent on the afternoon of 15 May 2015. That was the very day that the O'Higgins commission adjourned for half an hour in order that the barrister for the Garda Commissioner could get instructions as to whether he was to continue this aggressive line of attacking Sergeant McCabe. Was the Tánaiste told about this and did she object to the strategy taken by the...

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...with the Minister's predecessors and the former Taoiseach and I was told it was an investigation, then I was told it was downgraded to an examination, and today I was told that the file went to An Garda Síochána. The HSE official told me today that a desktop analysis of 16 of the HSE-funded agencies was done and there was a deeper investigation and audit of six agencies....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is a very reckless thing to say, unless he has an inside track with the Garda Síochána.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...night, beating up people. We know what happened to Mr. Henry, one of the Minister of State's constituents. They beat him and his son, nearly killing them, on the side of the road. There were no charges. To make it worse, a garda who visited the scene two hours later let it go ahead. We went to meet the superintendent and all we got was cheek. How dare we act that way? Shame on the...

Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...thank all the emergency services that worked so hard and are still working, particularly ESB Networks, the council workers and everybody who dealt with and tried to help, such as the Red Cross, the Garda, and others. However, I have one issue to raise relating to the strategic infrastructure Bill, namely, Uisce Éireann. Uisce Éireann really is unfit for purpose and has been...

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: .... The Pyke family is hard-working and decent, and Michael's dad, Tony, worked for years with Tipperary County Council. He was out yesterday with the other colleagues who came on the scene, including fire services and the Garda Síochána. They attended many such incidents. Like many who have spoken, I thank the front-line service men and women and the people who heeded the good...