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Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...there is too much bureaucracy. We are trying to have speed limits reduced at dangerous junctions. We are supposed to have got rid of the NRA but I do not believe we have. We decommissioned the IRA and we are stuck with the NRA. It is impossible to talk to and will not listen to politicians or anybody. I come from Tipperary where we had a horrific year last year. It was so sad that...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...is nevertheless leaving through that entrance every day. He has his own sewerage system. We are looking for problems. The TII and the National Roads Authority, NRA, are the issue. We decommissioned the IRA but we cannot decommission the NRA. We cannot get rid of the NRA. We added the TII on top of the NRA. Many of the people involved are good people but the power they have is...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...be able to do that together on this shared island. What hope have we of maintaining the peace process or getting a 32-county Ireland if this happens to monuments on which the Third Tipperary Brigade Old IRA Commemoration Community, of which I was the public relations officer for decades, have done tremendous work? The late Carrie Acheson was the secretary. She died only a couple of...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...Perry and his people out of south Tipperary. However, that house has been demolished in recent years and it is a pity; is mór an trua é sin. With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I will move on to the great IRA Chief of Staff, General Liam Lynch, whose lapel badge I wear and who was mortally wounded in the Civil War on the slopes of Crohan Mountain on 10 April 1923....

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...of our visionaries and leaders who fought to free this country. We will commemorate one of them, Liam Lynch, on 10 April of this year. He lost his life, unfortunately, in the Civil War. He was leader of the IRA forces at the time. What ideals they had. A film called "The Dying Days" is being made at the moment and the crew is walking through forestry and trees, or what is left of it...

Toll Charge Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...a person who gave me a lift and who works in one of those agencies that both exist. They are still there. Why is it that we need all these big boards? I was delighted when we decommissioned the NRA. I said for years we decommissioned the IRA and could not stand down the NRA. Its representatives are impossible and arrogance oozes out of them. I meet TII representatives if I can...

National Driver Licence Service: Motion [Private Members] (2 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...a ticket and queue, at least you saw movement and people’s smiling faces. You did not have to ring up and get no answers. The people in the offices are under pressure. We decommissioned the IRA. We have the RSA and the NRA, which is now TII. These are unelected, unaccountable quangos that the Government has set up. They are like mushrooms, growing and expanding, and they...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...is disrespectful to any Oireachtas Member but it is happening all the time. The Minister of State promised to visit the wonderful Knocklofty House in Knocklofty Demesne, a former home of the Earl of Donoughmore who was kind to the IRA men on the run, looked after them, left them train and fed them. The house now is being plundered. The Minister of State promised to come and see it. I...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...briar away from a sign. It is just not possible to do it because these agencies are a law unto themselves. I said many times, when Fred Barry was there, that we were able to decommission the IRA but we could not decommission the NRA. Now, we have TII. It is just impossible. We also have the new Office of the Planning Regulator. Why do we need that? It is another person with a great...

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...I have a story about the house from back in the troubled time. It was not a case of "dúirt bean liom go ndúirt bean léi". I got it directly from my father, who was an active service member in the old IRA, and proud of it, in the third Tipperary brigade. He was in the Newcastle battalion, the greatest of battalions. In the business I was in back in the 1980s, I was...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (12 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: As the Minister indicated in his opening remarks, the House is aware that the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was enacted in the wake of the barbaric murder by the Real IRA of 29 innocent people in Omagh in August 1998. Long before that, as others noted, in 1940 we had an emergency powers Act and the Minister is seeking to renew those emergency powers. I have spoken in...

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...with TII representatives. They will not meet anyone and someone cannot discuss a speed limit of which they have made a hames, for example. They are untouchable. We got rid of the NRA. As I have said several times, we had the IRA and decommissioned it only to be left with the NRA. We now have the TII, but it is only a different name. The way it treats people and the House is an insult...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...primary legislation also makes clear that the security threat in Ireland remains primarily from republican paramilitary groups, the so-called dissident groups, which have their origins in the Provisional IRA and the INLA. They rejected and continue to reject the settlement put in place under the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and subsequent agreements, a settlement aimed squarely at...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...cannot be reached by ambulance. We are looking for a 3 or 4 acre site in Raheen, near Cahir, but we cannot deal with the county council or the National Roads Authority, NRA, which is worse than the IRA. We got rid of and decommissioned the IRA. Former Senator Martin Mansergh-----

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...a national or primary road. I have said many times that we had a peace process. The late Alec Reid and a former colleague here, Martin Mansergh, were a great assistance with it. We got rid of the IRA and we got the NRA. That was fearful. Thank God the authority is not into violent acts but it is destroying economies and not listening to anybody. The young man to whom I refer...

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was enacted in the wake of the murder of 29 people by the real IRA in Omagh on 15 August that year. As the former Minister for Justice and Equality said, it was a necessary response to the atrocity and the loss of 29 innocent lives, including a pregnant woman. I have spoken in the past about this with the Minister in his previous role in...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...frustrated by the lack of engagement with them before the decision was made. That was the RIA again. It is like the NRA. It is all-powerful and listens to no one. As I said, we disbanded the IRA but we got a lot of agencies afterwards that we need peace processes or some sort of talks to get rid of them. We have quango after quango which are not accountable to anyone, either the...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...it. Presumably those children born to those in the asylum process are de facto part of that process, yet we have no data or numbers available. What is going on? Who are the RIA? We got rid of the IRA and we have agencies like this which are simply not fit for purpose. It cannot record that. Does it even know how many people are in the centres? My God. However, while our...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...people or the little people. They are badly neglected. We have the NCT and more regulations are being introduced all the time by the TII, which used to be the NRA. I always said we got rid of the IRA in the peace process and then we got the NRA. It is untouchable. Nobody can talk to them or engage with them. They do what they like, when they like, where they like. You cannot even...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: In 1998, 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died when the dissident republican group, the Real IRA, detonated a car bomb which ripped through the County Tyrone market town of Omagh on 15 August. More than 200 people were injured in the blast. The attack was described as Northern Ireland's worst single terrorist atrocity and by the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, as...