Results 141-160 of 308 for cork speaker:Mattie McGrath

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to amendment No. 30. The rebellion of the United Irishmen was Ireland's first republican rising. It began with a successful rebel attack on the Cork militia and the Ancient Britons who were cavalrymen at Prosperous, County Kildare.

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...the fact that 150,000 have been registered. I implore everyone to vote but I have emails from people all over the country who have been registered in Dublin when they have registered in Mayo, Cork and different places and they did not ask to be registered here. There were French students, as I said yesterday, and I had Majella on to me this morning from Mayo. She was registered in Mayo,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Railway Stations (23 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in Limerick Junction railway station's waiting room there is a printed timetable for all services to Limerick, Cork and Dublin and no timetable for the two daily services which originate at the station for Tipperary town, Cahir, Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir and Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Data (22 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications from non-Irish residents processed in County Cork since January 2018 date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22263/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Data (22 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports for residents here that are being processed in the Cork passport office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22280/18]

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: .... All the blame cannot be apportioned to us, the Rural Independents, or whatever the Minister called us this morning - I think it was "the lost cause". We are elected by the people of Tipperary, Cork, Kerry and many other areas. The people who will decide if we are a lost cause will be the electorate in our constituencies. I am thankful we have elections and not a dictatorship. ...

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...Eamon Ryan is much more adept at talking about this area than I am but there is one significant issue in my region. It concerns overhead pylons and power lines to transmit power from Whitegate in Cork to Wexford. The communities there have huge issues with that. There has been a debate around underground versus overground for the interconnector and the fact that we never looked at the...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...is no room in Ennis or Limerick because they are full already. As far as CAMHS is concerned, we heard from the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, last week that the youth and adolescent centre in Cork is shockingly only half occupied because the beds cannot be opened as there is difficulty getting and retaining consultants. If one divides up the figures I read out into the regions, so...

Mental Health Parity Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: .... The situation is just not good enough. One of these girls who is taking up a bed in the children's ward is 14 years of age and is almost an adult. However, there are eight beds lying idle in Éist Linn in Cork because of bad management, mismanagement and stubbornness by the management. I appeal to the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, to try to make some effort.

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (26 Apr 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...would be hauled in for war crimes. It is a totally unsuitable setting. The nurses and other staff are doing their best but her mother or someone else has to sit with her all night and on a 24-7 watch. She is waiting for a bed in Cork University Hospital, CUH, or somewhere else. It is appalling. I have raised this with the Taoiseach over the past two weeks. It is the same with the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We cannot access beds in Cork or anywhere else. It is unfair. The parents are bewildered, the families are demented and the children are suffering enormous stress. In another country, this would be regarded as a war crime. It is disgraceful.

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...bad as murder because it destroys the young person, their family and siblings. Consider the trauma of those families when a mother must sit night and day at the hospital bed for nine weeks, as one woman from my parish did, waiting for a bed in Cork. The other siblings were at home with their father who was trying to work. It is awful. We let this racket go on. I also note that the...

Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Mattie McGrath: A constituent of mine, a 14 year old girl who I will refer to as Aoife, is languishing in South Tipperary General Hospital. This is her ninth week waiting for a bed in a special adolescent unit in Cork or anywhere. There are up to six cases like this, I believe, in South Tipperary General Hospital, not only blocking the beds but failing desperately. In early January, she was admitted to...

Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...impact. That organisation is vital to our economy and will be even more so after Brexit. That is why I am very disappointed that the Taoiseach and his colleagues have decided to do the motorway from Limerick to Cork, whenever it will happen, because there is no sign of the motorway from Limerick to Port Láirge and on to Rosslare because connectivity with Rosslare Europort will be...

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...'s county does not one, but so do we. I am just saying beidh aonach amárach i gContae an Chláir. There will be also a mart and an after-mart. This wonderful community project is located in Cork and serves all of Munster and Leinster. It wants to have a base somewhere in east Cork or south Tipperary, but it cannot secure engagement with the buachalans and the Travellers. The...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Station Refurbishment (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...funding project. Nonetheless, we did not see the station open. Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran is now the Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW. There is a bundle of stations in Sligo, one in Cork and one elsewhere. There are some technical delays on land issues and disputes over rights of way and so on. However, the people of Clonmel and the Garda Síochána deserve...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...to speak to us, hotels were bullied out of offering a venue for their public meetings. These speakers included victims of rape, women who were conceived in rape and others. Thankfully we found a hotel in Cork, Deputy Kelleher's county, that took them. We held a very productive meeting of 500 people, who shared stories that were telling. However, the Oireachtas committee did not want to...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...is concerned about is locking up the people of rural Ireland if they allow their L-plate drivers go out on the road or cross the yard with a tractor or anything else. While I welcome the fact that roads like the M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick will be built at the cost of €900 million, I need to inform the Minister that quite recently the chief executive of Tipperary County...

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...for their vehicles. This is fraud, blackguarding and downright robbery of people in rural areas. I will make a point about the brainwave the Taoiseach had when he made an announcement in Cork some months ago. Unfortunately, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is not present to listen to it. We lobbied to have a motorway built from Limerick to Cahir to link the M8 motorway...

Prohibition of Sulky-Racing Bill 2018: First Stage (31 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...for the public but also for the horses and young passengers concerned. Recently we heard how a heavily pregnant woman was driven off the road after encountering a sulky race between Mallow and Cork on a Sunday morning as she travelled to work. We also read about the tragic case which led to the death in February 2016 in Clondalkin of Seán Doyle aged just 12, God rest him. Seán...