Results 61-80 of 308 for cork speaker:Mattie McGrath

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...this issue with the Minister, Deputy Ryan, and the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, for months in this House. Four people turned up at the Clonmel test centre last Tuesday morning, from Cork, Dungarvan, Cahir and Clonmel, and it was locked. I have been digging and the staff in my office, Ms Triona O'Flynn and others, have done great work on this. The office in Clonmel will only...

Regional Airports and Aviation: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...all the associated industries recover? God be good to Pat The Cope Gallagher, the former Leas-Cheann Comhairle. He is alive and well and kicking. He always used, and boasted about, the aeroplanes to Donegal and the connectivity with Dublin, Cork, Shannon, Knock and anyplace else. Those people are entitled to that modicum of service but, above all, we are entitled to have the economy...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...I have no direct experience in this area, but I have learned a great deal from the experience of my colleague, Deputy Michael Collins. He is one of the hardest working Deputies to ever come out of Cork South-West. I refer to what he has done for the fishing sector. I remember the day of the protests in Cork, when he left here to go down to those protests and then came back up here to...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, and others, in her contribution earlier. We must, therefore, take heed and look after what is in the sea. Turning to fishermen and the incident in Cork raised by Deputy Michael Collins concerning an Irish boat being interfered with by a foreign trawler in our waters and the lack of response from the navy for several hours, that occurred...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...None whatsoever. They have sold out to the EU. We see that with fisheries. Deputy Michael Collins has apologised for his absence from the House as he is standing this morning with the fishermen in Cork. We see it with our agricultural policy, as Deputy Murphy referenced. The Government is beholden to Europe and anybody that keeps it in power. All these organisations have too much...

International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...two wonderful airlines in Aer Lingus and Ryanair, with wonderful staff. We know what they do. It is time to look after them. Get the mayhem out of Dublin Airport and support Shannon, Knock and Cork airports. Give them some decent modicum of responsibility. On the pandemic and the Government's response to it, I have said before that it is a plandemic, which is what it seems to be....

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...what happened. It was shocking. Some 750 people picked up the virus in hospitals and died, including a good friend of my own, John McGrath, Ballyporeen, who I spoke to on Christmas Eve. He went into Cork University Hospital, and he and three other patients on the ward got Covid, and he is no longer with us. That is a shocking indictment of the HSE, the Minister for Health and anybody...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: .... I salute the way they have been out on the front line doing their best. I spent a very pleasurable morning last Monday with the community garda in Ardfinnan and Cahir, Noel Glavin, who is a proud Cork man but has been based in Cahir for a long number of years. He visits elderly people in their homes as part of the community effort during the Covid crisis. It was wonderful to see, on...

Project Ireland 2040: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...project. We want to develop a road from Limerick to Cahir to provide connectivity to the cities which is what we are all about here. This will connect Galway, Limerick and go on to the M8 in Cahir, to the Cloughbreeda junction, which will provide connectivity to Dublin, Cork, and then on to Waterford. This will connect to the ports of Galway, Foynes, Waterford and, indeed, Rosslare....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...funding under the rural regeneration and development fund, RRDF, has been announced by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. Some €500 million went to Cork and Limerick but Clonmel did not get pingin amháin. We had a lot of work done on this. The strands involved were phase 2 of the Kickham Barracks regeneration, the Clonmel Flights...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I do not have any issue with those towns the Tánaiste mentioned in counties Cork and Limerick; they need bypasses. The Minister, Deputy Ryan, however, is in favour of smaller ring roads or smaller bypasses, not a huge motorway. The Tánaiste must look at the funding, which is staggering. It is €3.8 billion versus €10.3 billion. That is €3.8 billion to go from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I want to talk about the Connecting Ireland document, which aims to connect Cork, Waterford, Limerick and Galway and to provide an alternative to the M20 and M25 motorways, which the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, believes will cost a fortune and is too expensive. The Government's vision for Ireland 2040 is to achieve connectivity and balanced regional development. Our regional cities are...

Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...young scientist competition. We all miss that competition this year and the innovation and expertise displayed there. It is great to see where those young people can bring us. A question was posed to a young chap from Bandon in west Cork, I think, regarding whether he had been contacted by any of the technology giants and he replied that he had not. Perhaps he did not expect to be or...

Covid-19 (Transport and Travel): Statements (10 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...with Jobs for Tipp, March4Tipp and the chamber of commerce. I thank him for that. We want to do in Tipperary what happened in Clonakilty and we want him to assist us. The M20 reaches from Limerick to Cork. Joe McGrath, the Tipperary county manager, put forward a proposal some years ago that I brought to the then Minister, Shane Ross. The proposal sought to extend the road from...

Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ..., albeit not for the past nine months. I refer to investment in Dublin Airport. I spoke at length on the Bill the former Minister, Deputy Ross, was bringing through the House about the downgrading of Shannon, Cork, Waterford - Port Láirge, Galway and Knock airports. We have plenty of airports. We need more aeroplanes and more pilots. We have many young ambitious people who would...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: .... Farmers need support in these trying times, since they cannot get staff and are dealing with the weather, prices, Covid and lack of people around them on the hillsides of Tipperary and east Cork, including the Galtee Mountains, the Knockmealdown Mountains, and the famed Slievenamon. Farmers want to work and have complied. We need engagement and training. I welcome all the changes...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...is not being managed properly. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, promised us during the debates we had on the Covid pandemic and the budget that it would be done right, but that is not happening. Places like west Cork did not get a penny for any greenway. It seems like some counties are preferred and others are not. Deputy Michael Collins has said that his part of the country is being...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...to drive them into oblivion. The British did that to us for generations and over centuries. We commemorated Bloody Sunday last week. We were proud in Tipperary to get out on that field, albeit in Cork, and win. That is the spirit of that jersey and the people who fought for this country. I am talking about Ó Treasaigh, Breen and Michael Hogan. Those people spilled their...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Brexit Issues (25 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...Deputy Michael Collins and others who have organised this, together with the staff in Deputy Collins’s office who run around in the middle of the night picking up people to bring them to a bus in Cork. The Government has no idea the effort that goes into this. It is worth it because people can see, stand up and walk and live with some modicum of quality-of-life. This is not...

Regulation of Private Security Firms Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...have received little protection from the courts because many of them had to go in as lay litigants. I was there with some of them in some cases. I was there for one case when a lady was brought from Cork in a prison van. She was traumatised and she could not stand up. She was screamed at to stand up by the judge but she was physically unable to do so, nor was she able to speak up...