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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (10 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 717. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made on the new Clonmel Garda station at Kickham Barracks; when the contract will be awarded; and the commencement date for same. [13038/21]

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...an answer in writing. The UK has 20 million vaccinated, including 600,000 vaccinated in Northern Ireland. What are we doing wrong here? Could the Minister please answer the question as to why gardaí, who are on the front line, and our carers are not vaccinated? Surely to God gardaí should be vaccinated considering that we expect them to deal with every situation. The...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...in here as cannon fodder and vote for this Bill. I have major issues with voting for this legislation because it is inadequate, inept and ten months too late. Is it workable? The Minister for Health tells us all that gardaí are doing checks on homes and everything else. The Minister for Transport, Deputy Ryan, was challenged again today about that. Gardaí are frustrated too....

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...will be into the summer season and people will be coming in from all over. The country is porous. The Government blames the Border with Northern Ireland, but people have been flooding through the ports and airports. The Garda Síochána is confused. Spokespersons from the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, AGSI, and the Garda Representative Association, GRA, know...

New Decade, New Approach Agreement: Statements (24 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...he would do for him, but when he got into power he abandoned him like a hot potato. He promised he would get truth and justice with Fine Gael in government but it did not happen. The former Garda John White died during the year. His mother was laid to rest only last week. She was broken-hearted after the way her son was treated. He made efforts to ensure the Omagh bomb was not...

Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...informers", because that word has gone out with the Flood; they are civic-minded people telling about things going on that should not be going on. We must support them. I salute the community gardaí, such as those under Sergeant Moloney in the Cahir district, namely, Garda Jenny Gough and Garda Noel Glavin. It is the same in Clonmel, and all over County Tipperary. It is a pity...

Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...of the notes are counterfeit. Unsuspectingly, they then pass on those notes. That is a genuine mistake. However, then there are crimes and people out there committing those crimes. I salute CAB and the different forensics units in An Garda Síochána. I especially salute CAB for undertaking a big operation in the south of my constituency yesterday and freezing...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Jan 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...it and brought it back but it was not accepted. It involved a few simple measures such as traceability, whereby anybody buying or selling scrap metal had to have a PPS number and the item had to be held for a specified period so the Garda could find it. It went back to gold and silver and PPS numbers. It would have been very lucrative for the Exchequer's coffers but there would also...

Covid-19 Task Force: Statements (17 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...waited to hear our own group. It is very important that all voices are heard. We have not had great success but I compliment everyone and all front-line workers in the community, including An Garda Síochána, the fire service and the community groups who have worked so hard to try to reduce the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. I sympathise with all the businesses in the...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...Chief Superintendent Derek Smart in Tipperary for the new unit he has set up in Thurles to deal with sexual crimes in every division. I really am pleased it was oversubscribed by members of An Garda Síochána who are ready, willing and able to take up the cudgels to deal with such crime. It was badly needed. Things have evolved and changed. Members of An Garda...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...Comhairle, Peter Finnegan, Elaine Gunn, and the whole team here, everybody in the community, for what has been done during this difficult year and wish them well for Christmas. I also thank the Garda Síochána who are outside in all weathers minding us. It has been a trying year. There are fabulous plans and designs for Clonmel Garda station which are on public display. We...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...because it is dangerous and there is no access to it, for good reasons. However, it is still going on two years later. Families cannot get closure. There are criminal convictions, and I salute the gardaí, Superintendent Whelan and the inspector from Cahir Garda station, who had to do this. A lethargic effort was involved in getting the enforcement finished. They rock into court...

Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...is about the 3% the Labour Party is languishing on in the polls under Deputy Kelly. I will say no more. We have our rights. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for protecting our rights here, always. I praise An Garda Síochána and the front line services - not slapping them on the back - and the community groups which have risen up and done so much. The community gardaí in my...

Prohibition of Sulky-Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ..., is here longer than I am and he will remember him. It was Kieran Hanrahan. Around the house and mind the dresser. Around the country and mind the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Garda Síochána, the county council and the health authority. Why does the Government with all its Departments and resources not bring forward robust legislation and deal with...

Prohibition of Sulky-Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...interested in sorting this issue out. Whatever is being done is not clearly not working. I support the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and thank its officials, the council and the Garda for the way they have tried to grapple with this, but it is clearly a mismatch and there is no coherent or decent legislation about this issue. The United Kingdom has a dedicated police...

Prohibition of Sulky-Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: .... That is not related to sulky racing. The horses are wintered there, and it is just not right. It is sad. People are very hurt and challenged by it. I pay tribute the late Sergeant Niall O'Halloran, who was our local community garda. He made gallant efforts to deal with this situation. Those horses are also trespassing on many people's property. Due to the fact that they are...

Central Mental Hospital (Relocation) Bill 2020: Second Stage (10 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...visit them in Kilkenny. They have to get a taxi out from the bus station adjacent to the hospital, St. Luke's, which is just not possible. Then there is the enormous amount of money it costs the Garda, with Garda cars carrying people, whether they go voluntarily or involuntarily, to be transferred to Kilkenny. It is unbelievable. There is an enormous waste of time and money in the...

Combating Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...lockdowns do not work. We know they do not work. It is interesting to hear it coming from Deputy Eoghan Murphy and I welcome it because he was in the Cabinet that brought it in. I salute An Garda Síochána across the country, especially in Tipperary under Chief Superintendent Derek Smart and superintendents including Denis Whelan in Cahir; Pat O'Connor, who has just retired;...

Scrambler Motorbikes and Quad Bikes: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...up and throwing away the key. We need to bring them on and train them. Community policing is the essence. With your indulgence, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I was late today as I was at a sochraid. Garda Sergeant Niall O'Halloran was laid to rest today at 47 years of age. He was an excellent community garda. He, along with his team, was the essence of community policing. I want to...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...in Charles Kickham country in Tipperary when thugs arrived in the middle of the night, broke into the property, caused untold damage and took away machinery. They were thugs and there was a Garda car sitting at the gate of the house while this was going on. This would not happen in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe and that is exactly what it was. We saw what happened in Roscommon. I am not...