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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...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...O'Gorman, needs to go down to Roscrea and sit down with a subcommittee of that group of people who are still at the hotel. They did not and would not stop anybody from going in there. There was absolutely no attempt by the Garda Síochána to negotiate or to ask for a mediator. It was disgraceful. There were many people who could have done that. I would have travelled and have...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 Jan 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 515. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a copy of all communication between his Department and An Garda Síochána in relation to events in Roscrea between 11 and 16 January 2024; if his Department requested the assistance of An Garda Síochána to deliver international protection applicants to Racket Hall, Roscrea while...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...organised lorries to go out with aid when the war started in Ukraine and did the same with many other charitable causes. The mishandling of the situation there is the responsibility of the Government and the Garda seriously mishandling it too. I have written to both the chief superintendent and superintendent. I did not get any response. There is a total mishandling and besmirching of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...they are going to get a flag of honour from this House. It is unacceptable. Deputy Durkan has spoken in this House several times about the situation in which a mother reports sexual abuse to the Garda, Tusla gets involved, experts are appointed, the family court accuses the mother of parental alienation and recommends that custody be given to the perpetrator. This is shocking stuff. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...here last week with the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. I have spoken to William Porter. What is deeply troubling about this case is that it appears there has been State collusion by Tusla and An Garda Síochána in the Republic, and PSNI child protection services in Northern Ireland, to frame an innocent man for a crime he did not commit, and to deny him access to his daughter for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The long-promised and long-awaited Garda station for Clonmel is going on and on. We have never had such low numbers in the Clonmel-Carrick on Suir district. It is a shocking situation and morale, like everywhere else, is low in An Garda Síochána who do an excellent job with the numbers they have. We have talked about this with the Minister for Justice, with the Taoiseach, former...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...are with the young children and their carer and the whole school community of Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire. This was a terrible incident, but what happened in Dublin did not happen overnight. The Garda has been demoralised. We saw this when 99% of its members voted no confidence in the Commissioner. This did not all happen under the watch of the Minister, Deputy McEntee, either. It...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Government has neglected to resource and support the Garda. The force is under-resourced and morale was never as low. This is a pity because we do need to support the gardaí. We need them. There is a very thin line between anarchy and good living and what we need. I salute the gardaí who travelled long distances from all over the country last week, of their own volition,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: There is a very thin line between anarchy and good living. I support gardaí in their efforts always and, indeed, last Thursday night. Shamefully, however, the numbers of gardaí in my county have dropped to an appalling level. Carrick-On-Suir, with 5,000 in its town and hinterland, has four gardaí and two sergeants. Its complement is 14 gardaí and four sergeants. Up in...