Results 41-60 of 685 for garda speaker:Mattie McGrath

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: No, the previous speaker, please. Would you welcome a Garda inquiry and co-operate with it?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...a final question. The Minister has appointed one person but she has not appointed all of them. This is going round in circles. I am asking, as I did at our first private meeting, that we have a Garda investigation into this, because I knew what was going to go on. These people have come in, and more will come in next week and more will come in the future. This will go on and the next...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: That was another disastrous decision. How will we get any answers? It seems as though there was some ready-up and she exited with all the evidence. This is shocking. That is why I called for a Garda investigation. It will be needed at the outcome, with no disrespect to any of the witnesses. That is what is needed because the public have lost all respect. In fairness, 50:50:20 was...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I did not say that. I said we need a Garda investigation.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, it is. I want a full debate about the debacle at RTÉ and the failure of the Government and Ms Forbes riding into the sunset. I want a Garda investigation to ensure Ms Forbes and other senior people in RTÉ are held to account.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...to come before any committee. I want, as happens to people who are unable or who do not wish to pay their licence because of the poor service of RTÉ, Ms Forbes to be arrested and charged and to get the Garda to question her if she will not come before this House. The people are aghast at what is going on at the top levels in some organisations. Of course, it is-----

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...no place to go in public or even private. It is just not good enough that those people are left to wallow there like that and not get the intervention that they need. Then there is the whole area of the lack of gardaí. We have some great community gardaí in Clonmel, but they are not there any more. They are pulled off into other services, and I think we have set up too...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: .... When families are going away, one member may not have a passport despite the holiday being paid for. Something has to be done to reform how we issue passports. There are issues with 24-hour Garda stations and with gardaí not being available. The Passport Office only rings three times to check out a passport application and may not be able to get an answer from the gardaí...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The situation regarding recruitment and retention in An Garda Síochána is very acute. There are four gardaí and two sergeants in the town of Carrick-on-Suir in the Clonmel Garda district. They would want four times that number to fill the rosters. They can only fill one roster. We see the slow rate of input into Templemore but we also see the resignations, retirements and...

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...of the Government's pious platitudes, with the green tail wagging the dog and all the kinds of policies that drive people off the land. The Government will not look after the people who looked us, the Garda men and women, and the wonderful firefighter men and women. I meet them every week in Bray when they are up for the training sessions from all over the country. They do five or six...

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...necessary. It is grand to come in and introduce legislation here, as we have with much legislation, and talk about the justice system. We see how the numbers in enforcement agencies, whether it be An Garda Síochána, the juvenile liaison officer, JLO, system or Garda diversion programmes, have been ransacked and ravaged by the crash. They were starting to beef up numbers and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abuse (24 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports of child sex abuse made to An Garda Síochána for each of the years 2015 to 2022 and to date in 2023. [25148/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abuse (24 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions for child sex abuse made by An Garda Síochána for each of the years 2015 to 2022 and to date in 2023. [25149/23]

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...before us. I also want to thank the people in Cuan Saor refuge in Clonmel and in the rape crisis centres around the country who have done so much valuable work. I also thank the members of the Garda, who help where they can and everyone else involved. As Deputy Healy-Rae has just said, we are talking about very traumatic situations. That said, I know of situations of coercive control...

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am not mentioning their names. I mentioned one name that the Minister is already aware of. There is an appalling list of failures by An Garda Síochána. The woman was terrorised out of her home. I also have a problem with the sexualisation of children in our schools, in mathematics, geography and history classes. There is a space for relationships and sexuality education,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad the Minister for Justice is present. Clonmel has been waiting 64 years for a new Garda station. Superintendent Ruane and his team there, and the public, need a fit-for-purpose building, which they do not have. There have been statements today by a backbencher that we have decoupled the situation regarding the Children Court building from the two Garda stations involved in the...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...a lengthy translation. It is only one word. I think the Irish language has been diminished and caillte. Pádraig Pearse said that tír gan teanga was not a nation at all. Mention was made by Deputy Ó Snodaigh of An Garda Síochána. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle might allow me nóimeád amháin. The new 999 or 112 emergency service is now called the police...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...Feirme members came today with such dignity, respect and an honest-to-goodness plea? There was not a bad word among them, or any kind of traffic blockades or anything else. They co-operated with An Garda Síochána. They came with a mantra; it is to be allowed to live in rural Ireland, to be allowed to have a fair living, to be allowed to build houses and to be allowed to have...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ..., and they can be prosecuted. They would get a serious conviction that would stay with them. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan mentioned the spent convictions, but it would damage their prospects as regards garda vetting, employment and maybe travel abroad. I think we are using a sledgehammer to crack a chestnut. There may be unintended consequences of this legislation and I appeal to the...

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...several times about the security industry as well. They are going around without proper court documents doing evictions and repossessions of homes, without any proper paperwork and with no recourse. The gardaí stand idly by, in many cases. I have supported the Garda all my life and want to support them. We have seen this happen is Balbriggan, in Roscommon and in many parts of the...