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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...in the context of Clonmel town. He acknowledged we need a renewed focus. Open drug dealing in broad daylight on the main streets of our towns and villages is evidence that we do not have sufficient Garda resources in our towns. One of the other difficulties is the sheer lack of support for those who have tried to break away from addiction, have gone through rehab and come out the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...the many serious issues facing the town. Dereliction and vacancy are only one element. Homelessness and mental health issues are difficulties. Drugs are, unfortunately, rampant in the town. The Garda is unable to deal with the situation due to a chronic shortage of numbers. Gardaí are working out of a horrible Garda station which we have been waiting to be replaced for 50 years....

Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...issue we have to deal with. My God, my own county was devastated last year with young deaths and we have had some this year again. This is a very important motion. There is not a simple solution. The Garda traffic corps has been decimated and we need those situations improved. We made bad decisions in investing a huge amount of money in GoSafe vans, which are only punishing people in...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...for. It is not there because we inherited that old system, but by God did we make it better and make it better for the system. To hell with na daoine na tíre, to hell with the people of Ireland. We had a young man killed in a Garda station in Clonmel, Brian Rossiter, almost 25 years ago. Fight for justice? You cannot fight the city hall or the system. The system crawls in around...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...burning of any building or any arson attempt. A burnt building is no good to anybody. I did not see any places on fire but I am just saying that there were heavy-handed tactics. The community gardaí have to go back to the location today to pick up the pieces. I praise the community gardaí in all our communities, including in Tipperary, for the work they do. They are...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...Government has to listen to them as well. It is our duty to do so, so we will not be lectured by any parties on what we can say here. There is oppression here that is unhealthy for democracy. I raised yesterday the issues in Newtownmountkennedy. I have supported An Garda Síochána 100% all my life, and I support the work of community gardaí. Damage was done through...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The abject failure of the Government's policy on migration is causing huge division. What happened in Newtownmountkennedy last week is causing huge questioning of An Garda Síochána, which I have supported all of my life.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We need to support the Garda. Gardaí cannot police without the support of the public. The heavy actions there, which were reminiscent of Northern Ireland and the RUC and B Specials, were shocking.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I beg the Taoiseach, in the name of the Lord, to evaluate what the Government is doing and the division it is causing between the Irish people and An Garda Síochána who have protected us for decades and want to keep protecting us. This is heavy-handed tactics from Drew Harris and his gang. It is a shocking situation.

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...a system from the English to cover everything up, with nothing to see here. Our people are being denied justice, day in, day out. There was the unlawful killing of the young Rossiter boy in Clonmel Garda station. Again, it was covered up. The wrongdoing is going on, day in, day out, to this very moment. It is probably happening to many families with Tusla at the moment, given what is...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...businesses and retailers and the amount of pilfering and loss of goods and money. I heard only recently, regarding a big shop, that 30% of its business is being affected in this way. The members of the Garda are doing their jobs, if they can at all, and bringing people to court, but the people concerned are out again before the gardaí have left the courthouse and are back doing this...

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...science behind it. There is also the fact that the traffic corps has been depleted. I want to support Sergeant Padraig Walsh in Cahir with his traffic corps team, Kevin McGuinness and others. Garda John Walsh, our local garda, is out on the road every day doing checkpoints. The Commissioner made an announcement last week that all gardaí are going to do half an hour of roads...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...blame at the Minister's door. His colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy O'Brien, has engaged with me on many occasions. It is ten weeks today since the hotel in Roscrea was taken over and the Garda was sent to terrorise the people of Roscrea. These are good decent people, ordinary mothers and fathers. They had no objection to children, they just wanted their hotel. The whole thing...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...in The Irish Times today about a care company called Ideal Care Services which got €8.9 million from the State. TUSLA has uncovered a major scandal there involving bogus employment and falsified Garda vetting and God knows what else. What is going on with the State that it is paying this kind of money to companies, through the HSE, that are involved in downright abuse and...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...burned. There was an attempted burning of an old school in Fethard, County Tipperary. It turned out there was not even a rumour it was going to be used. Straight away the media jumped on this. The Garda has said it had no information whatsoever. There were no rumours or anything else. It could have been ordinary people doing something they should not have been doing in that building,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ..., as she is present. The Minister was in Thurles last week and in Tipperary but she did not go to Roscrea. The women, mothers, grandmothers and children of Roscrea took a silent vigil outside the Garda station last Monday night. It was just themselves with no outside interference. The Minister insulted them and decried them greatly by saying they were being manipulated. They were...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I speak on behalf of my colleagues in the Rural Independent Group on the lack of gardaí in our country. Since the trouble in Dublin, gardaí are coming up from Tipperary and every other county to man the situation here in Dublin. Places like Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel, Tipperary Town, Cahir and Roscrea are very short of guards. They have pathetic numbers if people knew the real...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...fast he gets up there. Those bikes will go fast but the Government is not talking at all about the scooters and the yokes in towns, on the footpaths with no high-visibility vests or anything. The Government has decimated the Garda traffic corps, whom I salute for the job they have to do, going out to fatalities and so on. The corps has been more than halved. In Clonmel at the...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...to the parliamentary question only dealt with those coming through Dublin Airport, not the ports, Belfast or anywhere else. It is farcical that the Minister cannot give us those figures. The Garda is supposed to be monitoring the ports with another agency monitoring Dublin Airport. The Government is talking about increasing the fines on airlines to stop people coming in. Nobody in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Mattie McGrath: There is a serious situation regarding the diminishing Garda numbers all over this country, while the Minister says they are increasing. The town of Carrick-on-Suir has only four gardaí when it used to have 18. Roscrea used to have 27 gardaí - we know the problems they have there now - and now only has seven. It is the same in Cahir and Clonmel in my constituency and all over the...