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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have the same reservations as Deputy Funchion. The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. Do we ever learn from our mistakes? The Caranua experience was an unmitigated disaster. I do not think the Minister was involved in setting that up - he was not even here at the time - but it was a disaster. Surely we should learn but we are going...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (29 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of birthmothers admitted as residents to the Tusla-funded mother and baby home located in Bessborough, County Cork in each of the years 2014 to 2022. [34690/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (29 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of birthmothers discharged without their children from the mother and baby home located in Bessborough, County Cork for each of the years 2014 to 2022. [34691/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (29 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who went directly into State care from the mother and baby home located in Bessborough, County Cork for each of the years 2014 to 2022. [34692/22]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Foetal Pain Relief) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am proud to be a co-sponsor of this Bill. I questioned the Government Chief Whip, the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, yesterday to find out what was happening with regard to this Bill and I was disappointed the Government decided at such a late hour to oppose it. It would not even give it an airing to be read a Second Time. I am very sad this Bill is even necessary but today’s...

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I too feel compelled to be very critical of the system of direct provision. It has been an abject failure. I have visited the centre in Carrick-on-Suir a number of times over the years and have seen the way families are incarcerated there. These are, in the main, traumatised people who have come from very harrowing and desperate situations. I visited refugee camps outside Lebanon some...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am sharing time with Deputies Michael Collins and Michael Healy-Rae. This report proves that history is a living thing, and unless we face it honestly, peace and the beginning of reconciliation will continue to evade us. I also welcome the apologies made by the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister. I listened to their speeches. I also acknowledge today's apologies by the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to say the very same as the previous speaker. This is a shambles. Those who were in mother and baby homes and families have waited long enough. The way the Government is treating them is shambolic. It is being rushed through the House without any proper scrutiny. We are also opposed to it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Today's schedule of business is packed and will run until almost 1 o'clock tomorrow morning. There are only going to be 45 minutes per segment to discuss the extension of the emergency powers, which is not enough. We will not have enough time to discuss the mother and baby home legislation either. What are we trying to do here? Are we trying to steamroll everything through? If we have to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I want to raise this issue. It has been hugely traumatic. There is no mention of this in the Government's five-point plan. Pregnant mothers going hospital is supposed to be a joyous occasions, involving the scans and everything else. All through their pregnancy, in the vast majority of cases, the partners or husbands have not been allowed in. We have heard of some harrowing cases...

Maternity Leave Benefit Extension: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I too am supporting the motion. I compliment the Deputy and Sinn Féin on putting it forward. I hope this new and what is meant to be all-embracing Government will understand it and try to support it. Covid-19 has resulted in a very difficult time for many families but especially mothers who have experienced the pleasure, beauty and joy of giving birth to a baby. Many such mothers...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste says that Deputy Harris has a tough job. I will tell the Minister what I believe is a tough job. A tough job is that of a mother or a father, a parent, waiting a year and a half for a simple operation while their child's spine twists and turns. Another tough job is that of the women and families who have been so desperately affected by the cervical smear scandal. There...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Today's business shall be No. 13, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the agreement between the member states of the European Union on the status of forces and of the NATO Partnership for Peace status of forces agreement, subject to the respective reservations, back from committee; No. 14, motion re Ireland's participation in a European Defence Agency project –...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 41:In page 14, line 29, to delete "or section 14certification" and substitute ", section 14certification or section 23certification". Amendment No. 41 relates to certification of the records that are kept and the fact that practitioners and people carrying out abortion procedures will be expected to keep records. In the discussion on previous amendments, the Minister and...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am saddened and shocked - we all are. We said all along - and I repeated it earlier - that we accept totally where an intervention has to be made in an emergency in terms of anything that would affect the health or the life of the mother. The Minister does not have to pick up on that. That is quite clear and understood by all of us. Some abortion advocates claim that the unborn child...

Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I completely accept this is a matter of the utmost sensitivity. I acknowledge the pain and trauma that many people continue to feel owing to the events in Tuam and, in particular, the burial of children at the site. The Government approval to accept the recommendation for the forensic excavation of the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway, is welcome, even though I...

Children's Health Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Joan Collins is on her way; she is at another meeting. I am happy to speak on this Bill, which seeks to provide for the enhancement of children's health services and to establish a body that will be known as Children's Health Ireland to plan and deliver paediatric services. Goodness knows that development is needed in that area and we know that the saga of the new children's hospital...

Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputies Boyd Barrett and Barry for allowing me to speak before them as I have an appointment. I appreciate it. I am happy to make a few brief remarks on the issue of adoption. What has emerged in light of the illegalities and forced adoptions in this State is a scandal that cries to heaven for justice. The idea that young babies and children were forcibly removed from their...

Government Response to Salisbury Attack: Statements (27 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...on this important matter. I note, however, that when it comes to debating the merits of the UK Government's response to the alleged Russian use of a nerve agent in the UK on a former Russian agent and his daughter, there are conflicting positions even within our parties here. I also condemn, in the strongest possible way, the use of that nerve agent in any sovereign state but we need to...