Results 101-120 of 307 for cork speaker:Mattie McGrath

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...of people being organised by the Healy-Raes and Deputy Michael Collins. A number of constituents of mine have also travelled to Belfast. "Belfast or blind" is their motto. It is some legacy of the Government. How many of the people in question in west Cork and County Kerry were strong and lifelong members of Fine Gael? That is how they were treated - they were being allowed to go...

Judicial Council Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...They are living in fear that their houses will be broken into at 3 a.m. I support the Garda, I am attending a care in the community function tonight and I salute the Garda. I salute the gardaí in Cahir and Cork who recovered a horse in Cork yesterday that was stolen from Cahir at the weekend. That horse was used by a family for therapeutic measures and it was stolen but thanks be to...

Cork Mail Centre: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on this important motion. I note the decision of An Post to close the Cork mail centre by March 2020, with the loss of 240 jobs and the devastating affect this decision will have on the workers concerned and their families. There is an increasing sense among communities that An Post is deliberately moving away from a model based on supporting communities towards a solely...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jul 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...barometer, yet these schools are failed spectacularly in terms of inclusion in DEIS. These young people are as entitled to DEIS supports as pupils in any part of the country, be that Dublin, Cork or anywhere else. I hope that we will see movement in this regard. There was huge disappointment last year when these schools were excluded from the DEIS programme. These Tipperary schools...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...all of my children were born. Six of my grandchildren were also recently safely delivered there. The staff of the maternity and other wards are tremendous and dedicated. Maternity services at Cork University Hospital, where my daughter was cared for, are exceptional as well. I salute them for the work they do under enormous pressure most of the time. What I do not accept is the...

National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: .... It is a good gesture. Why not? The staff in the restaurant - I have been in there this evening - have a food tasting involving wonderful Irish fare from all over the country, including County Kerry, west Cork and counties Tipperary and Donegal. The staff who work in these Houses never get a tip and they look after us all very well. I often get a tip from my colleagues to shut up...

Courts (Establishment and Constitution) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...they are listening - tá siad ag éisteacht sa seomra. I hope it is not the seomra codlata and that they are still there. Fair play, it is fine playing with me. The people of Tipperary, Kerry and west Cork are entitled to representation. They are entitled to send us here for the time being to scrutinise legislation and fight off dastardly legislation. This is where the energy...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...Harris, definitively addressed the trolley crisis. This crisis has got worse. The Taoiseach told us yesterday that it is not as bad as last year or the year before. Conditions in my county are appalling. Cork University Hospital was nearly closed last week. A man lay in the street for two and a half hours after a fall because eight ambulances were tied up at Cork University Hospital....

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (9 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...the Tánaiste had time to call to them and if he had let me know, I would have had a cup of tea ready for him in my office. I hope he got tea anyway. In Tipperary we always give a special fáilte for a Cork man. On 21 March, the EU 27 leaders decided to delay the Brexit date until 12 April 2019 should the withdrawal agreement be rejected. It has been delayed. It is clear,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Taoiseach and the Government react to the appalling situation in the south east, especially in Tipperary, with the trolley crisis in Cork University Hospital, CUH? The number of people on trolleys last week was appalling. The figure for today in University Hospital Limerick, which serves north Tipperary, is 55 and 30 in South Tipperary General Hospital. South Tipperary General...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Boundaries (26 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...an injustice. There is not even a road, or a hiking path, over the Galtee Mountains to get from Skeheenaranky or Burncourt, or Araglin or indeed Clogheen to Tipperary Town. One has to go into County Cork, into County Limerick and back to Tipperary or else go back into Cahir or Bansha. It is unjust. Who gives the Minister of State the right to do this? The Minister, Deputy Eoghan...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...and Local Government. Cahir has been put into the electoral area of Cashel-Tipperary. The Galtee Mountains are in between. The Tánaiste must travel past these mountains on his way home to Cork. There is no road through them. A person must go into counties Cork and Limerick to get into Tipperary or back into Bansha. The council recently voted by an overwhelming majority against...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (6 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times the critical incident policy has been implemented in schools in counties Tipperary, Cork, Laois and Offaly since 2011, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11196/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of the use of prefabricated units in primary and post-primary schools in counties Tipperary, Cork, Laois and Offaly since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11197/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications by primary and post-primary schools in counties Tipperary, Cork, Laois and Offaly under the prefab replacement initiative that are being assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11198/19]

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: .... This is especially true given that we seem simply unable to get to grips with the health crisis here. People who are going blind have gone up on the buses to which I refer. I have not taken many of them myself but my colleagues from Kerry and west Cork have done so. Coming home, these people are so delighted that they see the cattle in the fields, the Mourne mountains and flags...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I might be a Teachta Dála from what used to be Thiobraid Árann and is now Tipperary, but people from my community use Dublin Airport sometimes. We sometimes use Shannon and Cork airports to fly in and out of the country. I must say I have always been treated very fairly by all the staff, including those at the boarding gates. However, there are serious issues. Dublin Airport is...

Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...let them see what goes on. I ask them to concentrate on another ongoing practice. There are excellent coursing clubs in County Tipperary, such as Knockgraffon and Clogheen; Cappoquin in County Waterford; in east Cork, in Deputy O'Keeffe's area; and in Cashel and Galbooly in north County Tipperary. We have been unable, however, to hold coursing meetings for the past number of years...

Ratification of EU and NATO Status of Forces Agreements: Motion (5 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...and I am still proud of the ones that have been shunted off to Kilkenny thanks to former Deputy and Minister, Mr. Phil Hogan, "Phil the Enforcer". More of our soldiers have been shunted off to Cork and we have been devastated. The Minister of State and his Government has done more damage to Clonmel and south Tipperary than Oliver Cromwell did. We kept him out of Clonmel but we could not...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (31 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...in Clonmel. In fairness to the Minister of State, he helped me as best he could when I discussed a case with him. They were there for between seven and ten weeks waiting to go to the centre in Cork, which has difficulties with capacity. I refer to troubled adolescents who were in the wrong environment and they did not need to be in a paediatric ward but in a special place where they...