Results 1-20 of 307 for cork speaker:Mattie McGrath

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ..., for the people, developing clubs and facilities in their area in order that we can have players. I just brought a group of young men to the House from my own club in Newcastle. They are from Cork, Clonmel and various other clubs. We had a bit of banter earlier about clubs going bad and struggling. Our club, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Caisleán Nua, is only a bit of a club...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...Taoiseach did not turn up for work today and he was going to move mountains yesterday. Deputy Healy-Rae was afraid he was going to go moving Carrauntoohil and there would be no tourist industry left below in Cork. I do not know where he is but his duty or that of the Tánaiste is to be here in the Dáil, or the Tánaiste. It is happening successively, week after week, that...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (20 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 327. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason no businesses are operating in the IDA business and Technology Park, Fermoy, County Cork in 2024, 22 years after the official opening of the park; the amount that has been spent on the development and maintenance of Fermoy IDA business and technology park since it has been opened; the number of businesses that have...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...riots themselves. Take Deputy Paul Murphy and the remark he made here about me last week. The Ceann Comhairle tried to stop him. He accused me. We are elected by the people of Tipperary, Kerry, Offaly, west Cork and Limerick. Deputy O'Donoghue is unable to be here due to medical reasons. We have a right to speak in the Chamber. I thank the Ceann Comhairle and the officials for...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...is full of money, and there are many more of them if we were to add them all up. They have too much say and too much funding. It is costing us €6 billion in taxpayers' money annually to fund these quangos. I hate naming people but an individual from County Cork is well known all around the country. He has objected to every farm development, all over Munster, Leinster and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, send my sympathy and support to the people and communities of west Waterford and east Cork following yesterday's devastating floods. I raise the issue of dedicated hospice care beds. We used to have three lovely hospice suites in St. Brigid's District Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir, but they were closed unceremoniously with the hospital. We were then promised four beds for the town...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...Minister as to what they are going to do. What did they do? Sweet F - I will not say any more, but that is all. It is like a sift of snow that fell on the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath's constituency, near the sea in Ballycotton in Cork. With the first ray of sunlight, it would have gone off and disappeared, the same as the little things that came here, because he spread it so...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ..., but our primary duty is to look after our people from the cradle to the grave. The Government has failed miserably and has not respected people or told them how it would respect them in the future. It is like a shower of snow falling in the leafy constituency of the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, in Cork beside the sea. It will be gone off with the first ray of sunshine. It is the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...Limerick is out of order since last Thursday. This is supposed to be a world-class facility for cancer care not only serving Limerick city and county, but also Clare, Tipperary, Kerry and parts of Cork. My office has received numerous calls from cancer patients whose treatment has been delayed by over a week. You can understand how anxious they are and how worrying that is. Why is it...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...not mean that in any bad way. I am just referring, metaphorically, to the way he has blackguarded the country under the Green Party. They shut down the bogs and turf. We wanted to have a floating LNG terminal in Cork. There is the Ballyroe oil field. The Shannon LNG terminal was talked about for decades, but the policy of Eamon Ryan and all the Green Party was to stop that at all...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...there was a big furore. Other speakers thanked God that it was resolved, but it has not been resolved in Tipperary. There was a handover of everything by 20 September, the same day we arrived back from our recess. It is kind of resolved in Cork and there is something in Waterford but we in Tipperary are still dealing with it. There was industrial action during the year by union...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Limerick people voted for this in good faith in 2019. Waterford and Cork did not. I heard a Deputy for Waterford say they were going to watch what happens in Limerick. That is a poor enough way to have your aspirations delivered or achieved. There is a total imbalance of power. The power in this country rests here in central government. I am good friends with Deputy O'Callaghan, who...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...language about neutrality over the past year or two years, namely, that it is an outdated position, I remind him and the Minister of State that it has served us well. Consultative forums were held in Cork, Galway and Dublin. He picked the people he wanted to get the answer he wants. Why can he not have a consultative forum on getting energy prices down? Why can he not have a citizens'...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...Hospital, University Hospital Waterford and all the others. People are very worried that we will be the poor relation in respect of this matter. We have had a very successful alignment with Cork University Hospital and with University Hospital Kerry. The numbers do not stack up because some regions are very much smaller. We are being aligned with the St. Vincent’s University...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...from Longford, who was forced to sell his cattle and to cull them, and the Department is in on this and knows all about this. I have been contacted by Anne Pounds, a pedigree Hereford breeder from Cork, who told me she has been subjected to a similar fate after raising the issue of governance and auditing practices in the Irish Hereford Breed Society Limited. The society refused to issue...

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...awareness and funds for valuable resources for schools in Cashel and Ardfinnan, however. When are we going to wake up? The waste in the HSE is exorbitant. Look at the amount paid to consultants at Cork University Hospital, for example. Money was fired around during Covid and can be found for refugees but there is no money to look after children with special needs. Families should...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...things. The patient comes last. and the patient is last. The Government's patient first strategy is a load of bunkum. There are consultant's reports and Mazars is looking into the better management of Cork University Hospital. The money it has got is obscene. It is corruption of the highest order and it is disgusting

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (16 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...and sporting events. Deputy Thomas Pringle -to discuss the implementation of the recommendations of the Brandon report. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - to discuss when the new elective hospital in Cork will go to tender and when construction will begin. Deputy Mick Barry - to discuss the situation facing a group of nurses, mainly from India, working as healthcare assistants under a work...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...entities. Now we have it again, given what is going on with the fertiliser. It is shocking. I want to salute the suppliers of the world, the likes of Pat Myers in south Tipperary and east Cork and many others. Indeed, when farmers struggle with bad springs and shortages of fodder, these small suppliers have the ethos that the co-ops were set up to have. The South Tipperary Farmers'...

Deployment of Naval Service Vessel to Participate in Operation Irini: Motion (25 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...if we were some kind of superpower. As Deputy Michael Collins and others said, we cannot defend our own huge shoreline and fishermen. It was up to the fishermen to go out to the Russian boats in County Cork approximately one year ago. I, too, wish all the diplomats and their families and friends in Sudan well. Hopefully, they will all get home. We were badly exposed again, however....