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Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, Aoife Johnston's death at UHL was almost certainly avoidable. What is happening day in, day out at UHL presents a shocking, appalling vista, all because the Government closed down Nenagh, St. John's and Ennis emergency departments and expected UHL to do the work without putting in place the necessary beds or staff. I heard the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Butler, quipping across...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I am. I was at a briefing with the Ceann Comhairle. Interestingly, it was about the security of Members and staff. I certainly want to comment on this situation. It is very important that we try to take all measures to protect all of our citizens, and not only Members of this House and whoever else. The situation is very bad at present. It has deteriorated rapidly under the...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I know that. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. There are a lot of amendments and changes that need to be made. Some of them are here, and some are missing. We can have all the amendments, Bills and legislation that we like, but we do not have basic numbers of members of An Garda Síochána. We should cut out the spin and the announcements of how many gardaí are being...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Of course it is. We have seen the murder of members of An Garda Síochána and different people. Any murder, the taking of life, is the most heinous crime there is. Of course there should be mandatory sentences, and not a slipshod version of it - that is not a life sentence. Life should mean life because after all, somebody has taken another person's life. The situation regarding...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Sabrina Kelly, a mother of two children with special needs from Clonmel, has been failed by the National Council for Special Education and the Department of Education. She is struggling to get a school place for her youngest son, Josh. He is five years old and was due to start school this month. He was eventually offered a place in Powerstown National School beside Clonmel. However, the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Rural Independent Group and I tabled a motion in 2018 to have the site for the children's hospital changed from the current site. We brought Dr. Jimmy Sheehan, Fin Breatnach and others from Connolly for Kids in here in 2015 to tell Members that it was the wrong site. They had a 70-acre site out beyond the M50. Dr. Sheehan said that he would build a hospital there in 11 to 13 months for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Government could not build a henhouse.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (24 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide information in relation to the development and construction of the new Clonmel Garda station in Kickham Barracks, Clonmel, and the potential changes it will make to the existing public civic plaza at the same location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37884/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (24 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 343. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the shortages in black-leg vaccines for farmers; the measures he has explored to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37860/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad the Minister, Deputy O’Brien, is here. I have just come from the audio-visual room where the McDonald report on housing and vulture funds was launched.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The McDonald report on housing and vulture funds. I hope the Minister will be able to read it. Mr. Edmund Honohan, former Master of the High Court, Mr. Cormac Butler and others spoke. Critical, independent analysis was carried out, and not by NGOs. It is found, and Mr. Edmund Honohan pointed out also, that many areas of legislation are flouted and broken daily in regard to the Land...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I know the Minister has not seen it.

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is interesting listening to the Government backbenchers. One would never think that they were aware of the court case. The Government refused to take this money. I have to be honest and say that I support it because we have 5,000 jobs in Clonmel as a result foreign direct investment. I still support it but we cannot have schemes that are favourable to one big company. We must think...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach visited Clonmel recently; I was glad to see that. I hope he walked O’Connell Street. A businessman contacted me this week due to ongoing incidents of violence, open drug dealing and intimidation on the streets. He is threatening to remove his store from O’Connell Street. He has been there for a number of years and has a successful business. The lack of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You did not turn the sod.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It has not even gone out to tender.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Cool the spin, Taoiseach.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the Ceann Comhairle’s statement on the bike shed. I understood from discussions at the Business Committee meeting that a party leader here asked for another bike shed to be built in the front yard of Leinster House. Maybe we could get clarity on that. The situation with Irish Water is just untenable. This was an outfit set up by the former Minister, Phil Hogan, and the...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: On your bikes.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a breakdown of every road improvement project, including the indicative cost of each project and local authority area, that either his Department or Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has instructed local authorities to withhold planned road improvement tenders unless they receive explicit approval from either his Department or...