Results 181-200 of 307 for cork speaker:Mattie McGrath

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: .... The Minister of State is from Galway and will know University Hospital Galway and big places like that. Our hospital is a Dickensian old building. We have narrow corridors. We have more trolleys than Beaumont or Cork University Hospital or any other such hospital. That means the overcrowding is five or six times as bad because we do not have the space, the bed numbers or the wide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues Arising from the Citizens' Assembly Recommendations: Masters of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street and the Rotunda Hospital (11 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...in the Rotunda Hospital where babies had been diagnosed with anencephaly or trisomy 18, parents travelled to Britain for an abortion. That is in sharp contrast to the findings of research from Cork University Maternity Hospital where more than 90% of parents who had received a diagnosis of trisomy 18 continued with the pregnancy. Cork University Maternity Hospital also found that most...

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...are useless. What does the unanimous acceptance of our Bill in this House mean? Does it mean anything to the postmistresses, their staff and families? I met many of them on Sunday night in Cork on the way home from the meeting in Athlone. They are depressed because the Government is tying their hands behind their backs, blindfolding them and taking away the business. What will...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...I can move away from the script any day. The Minister is reading out figures and quoting international best practice and telling us how highly we rank. That is little good to the farmers of north Cork who the Minister represents, to those in Tipperary who I represent, or to Deputy McConalogue's constituents in Donegal. The Minister knows that better than I do. Around 1,000 farmers came...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (27 Sep 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...states that a child is to be considered a child before birth and that any prenatal child is entitled to legal protection. According to Fiona Broughton of the faculty of law at University College Cork, UCC:At the nub of this research lies a very basic question – who is the subject of human rights? This is a vital question and not one which should be left up to each state to decide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (26 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who must attend a special school in County Cork will be provided with school transport; the supports available to this person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34921/17]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage (13 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...has gone badly askew from what was wanted by the people of 1916 whom we have commemorated. It has been pulled asunder by the system. The system has become too cumbersome. We must tackle it in Tipperary, Cork, Donegal and Dublin. The system is failing us. We can have all of the reports that we want. We could build houses with them, given their size and volume. We need to change the...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...which wanted to help bring people to hospital, to prevent cases such as that of the poor unfortunate man from Waterford who was being driven to hospital but died in an ambulance in Dungarvan on the way to Cork. We have a community air ambulance scheme but the HSE does not want it as it is an irritant. The Government forced through the children's hospital in Dublin and it was a monumental...

Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (11 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...of general practitioner services in significant areas of the country at stake. It is obvious. Today's report is stark and deeply worrying. It shows that Cavan, Clare, Dublin, Kerry, Offaly, Tipperary, Cork and Wexford stand to lose at least 25% of their GPs in the next seven years. That is a crisis by any definition. Of course, the HSE would not see a crisis if the combine harvester...

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The quarterly report speaks of increasing housing supply and 23 major urban housing development sites with capacity to deliver 30,000 new homes in the medium term in the greater Dublin area, Cork, Limerick and Galway being identified by the Department, in close collaboration with local authorities, in terms of the Department's new housing delivery objectives. Ar an gcéad dul...

Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...need for a judicial review of the legality of the Act, which led to the eradication of 80 town and borough councils throughout the country. Recent statements from Government sources that the merger of Cork County Council would not go ahead are solo runs. We went to the High Court and I compliment the former councillor, Niall Dennehy, who was the leader of that group. I served a summons...

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...and regulations and too many big agreements are not good because there is too much collateral damage. Deputy Pringle mentioned the fishing industry, which is being wiped out. What is going on in west Cork regarding the commercial harvesting of kelp? We cannot stand in the way, however, because we are only little people with small say. That was not the concept of which Lemass had a...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...4,000 jobs in Clonmel arising from foreign direct investment. Merck, Sharp and Dohme are there for over 40 years and another investment was announced yesterday, although that is for Carlow and Cork. These are good jobs, with a good infrastructure built up and an amount of contract work and business generated from that. There are also subcontractors that supply the larger industries. If...

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...and, also, reduce stress on families. The HSE is confused. Will the Taoiseach ask the Minister to allow this centre a three-month trial of operation? There are similar services in Limerick, Cork and Kerry and they are operating successfully. What is wrong with Tipperary? It is the biggest inland town in the country with, consistently, the highest number of people on trolleys at South...

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...whereby GPs could directly refer adult medical card and GP visit card holders for X-ray and ultrasound services to a number of identified providers. They are operating successfully in Limerick, Cork and Kerry but there is something wrong that we cannot do it in County Tipperary. This was supposed to be a short-term emergency measure, designed to relieve pressure on hospitals in the...

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...centre that had made the investment. Will the Taoiseach please ask the Minister to give this a reasonable chance of examination and exploration to give the patients in Tipperary the same chance they have in Cork, Kerry, Limerick and elsewhere?

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK's Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (10 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...he is in or out and whether he will tell his colleagues or keep them guessing. There is too much uncertainty. We need all players on the Government team to pull in one direction, rather than in a Cork, Dublin or Mayo direction. It is a kind of tripod or merry-go-round but the issue is too serious for that.

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...to locate outside Dublin, not even to the other cities. When I speak about rural-proofing, I mean everything below Newlands Cross on the other side of the M50. IDA Ireland cannot get companies to go to Limerick, Cork or even Galway, which is a difficulty. I am not blaming anyone for this but it is bad planning. They want everything in Dublin, which is congested and where people are...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ..., two months of which were spent in a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital that was more than one hour from her home. During this time my daughter and son-in-law had to live in a home away from home in Cork. They were accommodated in the wonderful facility that is Brú Columbanus which allowed them to be near their daughter in hospital. In this regard, their life was to a...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (4 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...the National Monuments Service would be opposed to the placement of a cantilever style pedestrian bridge onto the side of the bridge in the style of the one placed on Macroom Bridge in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16177/17]