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Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is a sad life.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Government gave specific commitments in the programme for Government in respect of measures to deal with and tackle elder abuse. We have heard many reports and we are all aware of cases. What measures has the Tánaiste taken or where stands the Government regarding the introduction of legislation or the taking of action in respect of elder abuse. This abuse often happens in homes...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have a Bill on it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Marine Casualty Investigation Board (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Minister look at the make-up of the board because it is ridiculous?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Marine Casualty Investigation Board (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that the Marine Casualty Investigation Board, MCIB, is fit for purpose; the details of the appeals mechanism open to families or persons dissatisfied with the findings of the MCIB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30240/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Marine Casualty Investigation Board (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: My constituents, Mr. John O'Brien - Ms Anne Marie O'Brien's brother - and his good friend, Mr. Pat Esmonde, died tragically on 23 May 2010 while on a fishing trip at Helvick Head, County Waterford. The subsequent investigations by the MCIB and Dungarvan gardaí and the coroner's report have not only raised serious issues about the appropriateness of the judgment handed down, they have...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Marine Casualty Investigation Board (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not know if the Minister is happy with the MCIB but I am not. Its members do not seem to have any experience in what they are doing.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Marine Casualty Investigation Board (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am beginning the question. In the UK, the relevant board has one member with 30 years' seagoing experience while another has 40 years' maritime experience. The MCIB consists of an air accident investigator, a barrister and former executive with the British Potato Council, an accountant, a fire station manager and a solicitor. The board is clearly not fit for purpose. Who from the MCIB...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Marine Casualty Investigation Board (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: This is all relevant to the question, if the Acting Chairman would leave me alone. Who from the MCIB is a bow wave expert? It was spoken about at length in the coroner's report.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Marine Casualty Investigation Board (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There are huge question marks over this investigation. An Garda Síochána failed to make a public appeal for witnesses on the day of the incident.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Marine Casualty Investigation Board (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I hope they will be able to invoke section 40. The O'Brien and Esmonde families have suffered huge trauma for seven years. There was no Garda appeal for information, notwithstanding that the incident happened on a splendid summer's day when there were lots of vessels and people at sea. We need to get closure and explanations on this. I have told the Minister about the membership of the...

European Council: Statements (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State, in her new very important role, understands the Border counties as she is quite near them. We need action and we need to be treated as good Europeans, as we have always been, not lapdogs. We need respect now and support, not his kind of baloney where Tusk says that Brexit took up very little time in fact.

European Council: Statements (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I too am pleased to speak here today. I wished the Minister of State, Deputy Helen McEntee, well already. In the remarks by President Donald Tusk after the European Council meetings on 22 and 23 June 2017 he indicated that the leaders made three important decisions. The first was the agreement to extend the sanctions against Russia for another six months. The second was that Europe...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: In 2016 alone the total amount of horses that were seized, reclaimed, re-homed or indeed euthanised in the State was an astonishing 1,741. There were 129 horses seized in Tipperary and 122 of them had to be put down. I have it from one constituent who works in animal rescue that they paid €1,000 to treat a horse after it was seized, and there are many cases such as this. The...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Horse and Greyhound Racing Act. This is a crazy situation of cruelty and the frightening intimidation of people. When animal rescuers are trying to do voluntary work they are not being supported. The Department will not stand up to these gangs. Imagine insisting that a sick horse should be returned to the people who abused it.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It will be the same as jurors.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will prioritise the availability of school supports for primary school students with severe dyslexia; if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30301/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Meetings (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 160. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names and positions of those that attended a meeting between the national monuments service and the officials of Tipperary County Council on 13 June 2017; the location where the meeting was held; the duration of the meeting; the items which were on the agenda; the correspondence and documents which were provided to attendees;...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Casualty Investigations Board (28 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role his Department has in selecting members of the Marine Casualty Investigations Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30241/17]

Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I will share time with Deputies Danny Healy-Rae, Michael Healy-Rae and Michael Collins. I support this Bill and compliment the Deputy from Meath on bringing it forward. Town councils were abolished by big Phil the enforcer, the Minister at the time, Phil Hogan, and Fianna Fáil did not oppose it then. I tried to call a vote and I got FLAME, the former local authority members in...