Results 41-60 of 308 for cork speaker:Mattie McGrath

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (29 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of birthmothers discharged without their children from the mother and baby home located in Bessborough, County Cork for each of the years 2014 to 2022. [34691/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (29 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: .... To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who went directly into State care from the mother and baby home located in Bessborough, County Cork for each of the years 2014 to 2022. [34692/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (28 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 343. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the purpose of the Royal Naval vessel which was docked in Cork Harbour for a number of days; the permissions sought and granted for this vessel to dock; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33683/22]

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...I would support if the Government gave them support but it does not. It gives them only a pittance with the heritage grants, and then it will not allow them to get insurance. What kind of a Government have we? I recently flew out from Cork Airport and got through security in four minutes. I asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform why the Government cannot direct some of...

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the group from Cork Prison. Cork may not win its matches, but the group are here with their chaplain today and they are very welcome to the Gallery.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Two weeks ago, HIQA published an assessment of Tusla's foster care services in Cork which, as the Taoiseach well knows, has a quarter of the country's children. Tusla was compliant in only two of the 12 standards assessed. One example is that some children with complex needs taken into State care by Tusla in Cork were housed in hotels. The report is the latest among scores of reports that...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...every tune it plays. Even if they are wildly out of tune, he dances anyway. He would dance because he wants to dance into Europe when he, along with his party, will be hunted from the doors by the people of Cork. He will be hunted, imithe, but he will get a big job in Europe. Let us consider the damage he is doing with those who are doing whatever they want. Last week, he was a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There was a man outside the gates last week from Bandon in west Cork singing "Everyone Should Have a Home". I salute him, but the homes are not there.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: .... We saw Glanbia on the border of Kilkenny and its petition to An Taisce. The single biggest polluters in this country are local authorities right from Mizen Head up in Donegal down to west Cork. They are the biggest polluters everywhere. I could name 25 villages in Tipperary waiting for sewerage infrastructure. They are belching raw sewage into streams and rivers. The Environmental...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ..., ha'penny scheme. We need something worthwhile. Is the Government so far removed from the land that it has dumped the wellingtons and is forgetting rural Ireland? It is all about the Pale, Cork city and other places and green projects, and to hell with farmers. To hell or to Connacht; the old slogan. We depend on the farming community. Every village, town and hamlet depends on them,...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ..., is in the big book, the leabhar. It is in the programme for Government. Members of the Government stuck to it, they are welded to it and they have to honour it. The Taoiseach said, in Geneva or someplace - it was not in Cork, Kerry or a bog and I suggested he was lost in a fog in a deep bog - that this would all be smoothed over and he would do whatever. There are rumours he is now...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...escalating fuel costs; (8) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss the sharp decline in the number of dentists in the medical card scheme; (9) Deputy David Stanton - to discuss recognition of Carrigtwohill and Midleton, County Cork, as one education centre for school transport; (10) Deputies Colm Burke and Holly Cairns - to discuss actions to encourage farmers to use more land in 2022 for the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...Connectivity between Limerick and Waterford is important. I welcome the Minister's vision for the bypass for Tipperary town, but work is required between Cahir and Waterford on the N24 and the Dungarvan to Cork road on the N25. The funding is minuscule. Only €3.5 million is needed to keep the project alive. If they fall off the track now, God knows when we will be able to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (3 Nov 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ..., Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 7 October 2021, the reason Tusla service areas in south central areas of Dublin and counties Waterford, Wexford, Cork, Galway and Roscommon had above average numbers taken into State care according to data released by Tusla; and the reason the Galway, Roscommon service area increased the number of children...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: .... There is mismanagement and dysfunction in accident and emergency departments. The Government will blame it all on Covid but it cannot do that. We saw the horrific thing that happened in Cork University Hospital, which started in November 2020. The Government must recruit managers who are able to manage people. There are sometimes no doctors in the accident and emergency...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...Deputies Michael and Danny Healy-Rae and Michael Collins, who have been tirelessly representing the fishermen here. To think that the Minister did not notify them that he was going down to west Cork. The Minister was in Cahir as well and called to the mart in my hometown, but he did not even notify his colleague, Deputy Cahill. He brought a Fine Gael Senator with him. I do not know if...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...have to get a licence to harvest a crop of trees after waiting 25 or 30 years. On this Bill, I look forward to engaging with the Minister of State on it. Deputy Collins was lamenting the fact the Minister of State was in west Cork and he never met the Deputy or told him. That is disrespectful to any Oireachtas Member but it is happening all the time. The Minister of State promised to...

Proceeds of Crime (Investment in Disadvantaged Communities) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...eye was turned. I listened earlier to Deputy Pringle reporting on the horrific cases of inaction in the HSE, but what is going on inside the Prison Service is quite shocking also. There are two prisons in my area. One is in Cork, which I never got a complaint from. I have a stream of people contacting me, whistleblowers too, about what is going on in Limerick. A cabal is operating...

Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ..., to do that job. When I was on the board of Coláiste Dún Iascaigh, Cahir, the Sisters of Mercy had amalgamated the VEC school and the convent, along with St. Joseph's, a school I attended myself. Two pioneers from County Cork, the late Mr. Tom McGrath and Mr. Vincent Russell, cycled on their bikes to the town of Cahir to set up a school with little or no support from the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...this week, half of them in Tipperary. I ask the Minister to look at the bypass plan prior to the review of the national development plan. Spending €2 billion to €3 billion on the M20 from Cork to Limerick is a waste of money and damages the environment. We should carry on and bypass Charleville and Buttevant, have an alignment with that road and upgrade the N24 from...