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Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...to introduce via statutory instrument anything he dreams up. My concern has to do with the fact that these measures will be policed by 300 HSE staff, 70 Health and Safety Authority, HSA, staff, the Garda and whatever organisations, outfits or cabals the Minister dreams up for inclusion in the statutory instrument. Give them the badge and off they go like sheriffs and posses. As someone...

Lifting of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I thank everybody who was involved in dealing with the front-line services and the volunteers, the GAA clubs, the businesses, the Garda Síochána and everybody else who worked very hard and put their shoulder to the wheel. I also thank the tens of thousands of people who signed up to Be on Call for Ireland, but they were not respected. Only a handful of them were called up. Those...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...these gangs. With regard to the seven year waiting list, I understand there is a protocol, but I believe it is too long and too slow. We need that funding and we need much more funding with it. We do not have enough gardaí. We are starved of resources for the Garda and starved of numbers. We had good numbers during Covid, but now they have gone back into Templemore. We need them....

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence: Statements (6 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...the pandemic, there has been a horrific increase in domestic violence. The physical, spiritual and social cost of domestic violence is shocking. The economic cost is €2.2 billion. I salute An Garda Síochána in Tipperary, including Sergeant Ray Moloney, Sergeant Kieran O'Regan in Clonmel, Garda Claire Murphy, and the community gardaí in Cahir, Jenny Coff and Noel...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...on. People can congregate on the outside seating which is long and fronts a number of premises, including the Lazy Bean Café, a very popular eatery and several pubs, one of which has not reopened yet. How is a garda to determine, on inspection, whether the people outside are patrons of this, that or the other pub or the eating house? How are gardaí going to implement this...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...advisory committee, NIAC. They will probably think of another one when they try to cover their tracks and give it another acronym. This legislation is needed. I have saluted and supported An Garda Síochána all my life but they have been put in an invidious position. The county councils were given grants. My daughter, who is a councillor, and many others helped businesses...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...by wishing my sincere sympathy, and that of my group, to any family which has lost a loved one to Covid and to anyone who has been seriously debilitated as a result of it. I also wish to praise An Garda Síochána and condemn last nights' incident. I thank the Garda, front-line staff, hospital staff, nursing home staff and all the people. The meitheal spirit came back in when...

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

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I salute and support the brave members of An Garda Síochána and wish them well in their recovery. Ireland has become a country of the establishment. In Ireland, citizens, that is the voters, are consulted every four or five years at the time of a general election. However, institutions that are part of, or close to, the State have...

Ballymurphy Inquest: Statements (18 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...to be on a school trip to Dublin on the afternoon of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; it was the most appalling experience. There has been cover-up in respect of the Omagh bomb. Detective Garda Sergeant White, who has now gone to his eternal reward - his mother, Mrs. Angela White, went shortly after him - did his best to stop the bomb going up. People knew that bomb was going to Omagh...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I rise to ask about the situation regarding a new Garda station in Clonmel for our hard-working gardaí under Superintendent Willie Leahy. This issue was first raised in the House by the late Deputy Seán Treacy more than 50 years ago and, indeed, the late Councillor Ambrose, who was laid to rest last week was often on about it. We are waiting and waiting. The station is in a...

Private Security Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...comes to security and the intimidation that goes on and has gone on. There is no place in this country for a third force. I have said that dozens of times but we have a third force. We have An Garda Síochána, which I have proudly supported all of my life, and we have the Irish Army. That is it, apart from the auxiliary force, the Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil, FCA, as...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...parts of the legislation relate to provisions that go back to the foundation of the State. This reform is badly needed. I want to put on record my support for the ordinary men and women of An Garda Síochána up and down the country. 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...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...in County Longford at the weekend in a church. It is disgraceful. Are we going back to the time of Hitler and the Nazis? What the hell is going on here? We must pull up Drew Harris, the Garda Síochána boss man. I do not like these antics. I support An Garda Síochána always but this is driving people away from supporting the Garda. We need to have a debate on it here.

Ireland's participation in MARSUR III: Motion (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...with quarantine arrangements and God knows what else. The Army is always there, its members out on the roads and everything else, getting a fraction of the subsistence payments members of the Garda Síochána receive. It is downright insulting. The Commission on the Defence Forces is looking at pay and conditions. Action must be taken on these issues. We have seen a flight of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I too want to look for change to have time here to discuss the very serious situation of An Garda Síochána not being given the vaccine. It was number ten on the list and now it has gone way down below and we do not know where it is on the pecking list. An Garda Síochána is our front line. I also want time to be made available for the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...and they got two weeks to do so. How clever of the judge to put it back for two weeks until after Easter. Imagine in a court case they could not answer questions as to whether it was legal. The Garda Commissioner cannot answer and neither can the press officer. The Minister of State came in this evening and spouted out that diatribe to us. It is shocking.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...matter in the Topical Issue debate. The right to worship is an issue of tremendous sensitivity and importance to tens of thousands of people. We have mixed messages coming from the Cabinet. The Garda press office cannot say which or whether. The Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, informed the House that no priest would be summoned or fined. The opposite has happened. I...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...done by our district administrator Michael Moroney and senior planner Jonathan Flood. All these submissions were assessed, got the green light and got approval but we did not get a penny. We cannot get a Garda station even though we have been raising it for 60 years here in the Dáil. We have planning permission and announcements but we need an explanation as to why our application...

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...much to learn and there are many shortcomings in the organisation. I have cases brought to me regularly concerning families who are very dissatisfied. I am also often contacted by members of An Garda Síochána who end up as a baby-sitting service on weekends when Tusla is not available. Cases reported at 3 p.m. or 3.30 p.m. on a Friday evening necessitate members of the Garda...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...having asked for them since last September. We ask for answers and do not get them. It is an abdication of his duty. We are elected by the people to ask questions. I want to speak about An Garda Síochána. Members of the Garda are front-line workers who must deal with every situation and have done so gallantly. Community gardaí have stepped up to the plate. They are...