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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Garda Reorganisation (3 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that sufficient consultation with members of an association (details supplied) occurred prior to the Garda restructuring proposals being published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40299/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Garda Reorganisation (3 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Is the Minister satisfied that sufficient consultation with members of the Garda representative associations occurred prior to the Garda restructuring proposals being published and will he make a statement on the matter? I am told by the organisations that there was no consultation with them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Garda Reorganisation (3 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I heard the Minister speaking earlier about Garda reform. Garda reform without Garda support is a nonsense and he must know that. I will cite a statement issued by the Garda Representative Association, GRA. It stated that Government appears to be oblivious to the right of the gardaí and the communities they police to have been consulted about the location of new divisional...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Garda Reorganisation (3 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Garda Reorganisation (3 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: That is all wishful thinking. The Minister supposedly had five categories for making this decision: population - we are double the size of Clare; geography - I have told him that Ennis is 120 miles away; crime levels - they are way higher in Tipperary than in Clare; future growth - there is a huge expansion in Tipperary; and workload - the Minister read out numbers of gardaí but he did...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Reform (3 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 97. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures he is taking to introduce reforms aimed at reducing the costs associated with the civil and criminal legal aid system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40337/19]

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: He can come back in.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: We have 20 minute slots. Deputy Michael Collins and I had a 20 minute slot each.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am speaking through the Chair. I respect the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, of course I do, but I am just saying, without interruption, if he does not mind, that we all know why that was not covered. It is the same with the national print media, which we are not talking about tonight because they are not included in the Bill. He who pays the piper calls the tune, unfortunately. We open the...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am addressing the Chair.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Only when he comments. I do not know what he is saying.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I would say Deputy Dooley got the flu vaccine. He is all right. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle should not worry.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am trying to.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am trying to.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I appeal to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, and he is always fair, to allow me-----

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: -----to continue without interruption. I do not know. Comments are being made. Deputy Dooley is only four feet away from me. I want to continue.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat. We had the snowstorm last year and there were other storms. I salute Tipp FM. Trudy Waters is a Clare woman, so my colleague on the right might know her. She is now retired.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: She is still working freelance. She did an excellent job reporting the news, the views and, above all, the feelings, hindrances, accessibility problems and food and service problems people had. They are the people - of the people, by the people. Tipp FM reports from 6 a.m. until 12 midnight. Then there is Tipp Mid West radio with Joe Pryce, Pat Murphy and so on and the many backroom...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on the Bill, which has several key provisions, as follows: to enable the industry regulator, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, to impose and-or reduce the, and in some cases exempt from, payment of the broadcasting levy by certain broadcasters for new services; to provide for part-funding of the BAI from television licence receipts to a maximum of 50% of its funding,...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am getting side messages from a pirate station. Fianna Fáil had enough of a say and I do not know what Deputy Dooley is saying to me. They are cut from the same cloth as the Minister.