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European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...will be accused of not supporting the Garda. We are 100% in support of the organisation, but it must not use the tactics in question. In Roscrea, the “soft caps”, as they are called, came in and literally destroyed grandmothers, children and anyone else who was there. It was a totally staged operation for the cameras to further the narrative of the Minister’s...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...not even go to the Garda conference. The Commissioner was not even asked, nor should he be. I do not blame them for that as they have no confidence in him. Will you stop the rot? Stop trying to destroy our very culture, our fabric, our being, and infiltrating our country and overrunning it with migrants from God knows where. Look after the people who need to be looked after and have...

Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State (16 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: He has destroyed rural Ireland, farming and everything else and it is time he was moved out of there. The Taoiseach had an opportunity.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...not be far enough at this stage if he went there and decided to stay. Then the unfortunate people were brought out to the Dublin Mountains and given tents. Meanwhile, hired machinery was used to destroy their tents in the city. What kind of Christianity was that? The problem is that the Government will not stop the people coming in because the Minister wants to welcome them all from...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...to go onto the housing waiting lists, then there will be another couple of thousand people on those lists. I think it makes sense that Sean Meehan should not go to jail and his house should not be destroyed.

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...into the River Suir. The EPA took its sample at a bridge 300 m north of where the pollution is belching into the river. There are many such towns and villages. The way farmers are being demonised is totally unfair. It is destroying their confidence. By 2030, 20% of their land and sea is going to be taken out. It will be up to 80% by 2050. The Government is tying farmers' hands...

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...the country. Everywhere you go, in every town and village, there is a huge explosion in population and no services for them - GPs, hospitals, dentists, schools, etc. It puts more pressure on. The Government has a will to destroy the public services we have out there for the public and to deny our people public services they are entitled to, such as basic fundamental healthcare. These...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...down the limits from 80 km/h to 60 km/h, 100 km/h to 80 km/h, and 60 km/h and 50 km/h to 30 km/h is utter stupidity. It looks good and it sounds great for Deputy Eamon Ryan, the Minister for doing nothing only destroying people. He will not listen to anyone. At least some words of common sense were uttered there by Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. Roads are built - and he mentioned a ring...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...question from me recently. This is a very serious matter, yet there is no investigation, consequence or prosecution. Allowing unidentified individuals to arrive here without consequences for destroying their travel ID not only results in exploitation of Irish resources, which are entirely funded by the taxpayer, but also undermines social cohesion. Despite the consequences, this issue...

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...at the Capuchin centre in this city. Three thousand people on a cold night like last night and all that bothers the people in here and the Government is how to silence the good Christian people of this country and destroy their religion, culture, heritage and dúchas. They will not. I have that message. There are silent people out there who want to practise as Christians and to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...sum for many farmers. There have been refusals for such items as meal bins, milk bulk tanks, automatic calf feeders, milking parlour equipment and automatic scrapers. Is the Government trying to destroy farming completely? These farmers entered into this in good faith and encompassed in their quotation was getting the VAT back. They got the loans to do this on the basis the VAT would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...of the HSE that was hived off with no proper functions or diktats. We need a public inquiry. The Taoiseach standing up defending Tusla's work and praising it is not acceptable. Lives have been destroyed; 52 children in its care are missing. We all have children and grandchildren and want the best for them. It is shocking to stand up, dismiss that and say Tusla does everything right,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...have their calves born this year as normal, as they expected to be able to do when they put the animals in calf. It is shocking, especially in light of the world food situation, that we would be destroying our animals here. In fairness to farmers, they need certainty. As I said, when they made decisions about next year's animals, they had no notion that the derogation was going to be...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...he and its members have the necessary powers, but we want to be leaders in preposterous legislation. On the other hand, we will be shouting about Gaza and voting for freedom of expression and rights while we want to destroy and diminish rights. P.H. Pearse and the men of 1921 and 1923 fought for the freedom of this country, and this is the kind of freedom we want. It is outrageous.

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...this topic, on which I listened to her speak many times here. I put it to an tAire Stáit that this motion is very important. Since the outbreak of the Ukraine war, we have diminished, damaged and almost destroyed our neutrality and our record. We have had this debate previously and the Minister of State got annoyed with me. The Tánaiste has said our neutrality is an...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...all those inlets. We cannot drive on the roads. Water on roads is one of the most dangerous things of all time. The best of cars will be upturned with water pertaining. The roads cannot then be maintained because frost comes and destroys the road surface. Simple, basic maintenance is not being done. The whole baloney that we cannot cut the hedges is criminal. Road safety, people's...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...Kerry was going to be put forward, but then he, with his colleagues, signed up to a deal with Fine Gael and, at the behest of the Green Party, put it into a statutory statement and sent word to Europe that they were going to destroy it. They have destroyed it and that is an act of sabotage. I would call it nearly treason. We are depending on a pipeline bringing gas from England and God...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...the country at all, because it has, but I would like it if it would leave us alone to eke out an existence and live a happy enough existence like our forefathers and forbears did. It wants to persecute and destroy us and make us impoverished. That is what is happening to our country. I am not being alarmist. The Government cannot seem to see it. I too, like Deputies Michael and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...also has none of the spin we have around here. These water issues are costing businesses and householders. It is costing businesses thousands in additional costs and lost revenue. There is also the cost of equipment that is destroyed when the water goes off without the business being made aware. They have been forced to close due to the lack of water. Walking up the street in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...days or maybe months. This will have a huge impact; not to mention the impact of putting in place a pipeline to Dublin. It is a mad, daft and silly project. Will the Government derail it before it destroys Ardnacrusha? The only purpose of the project is to put water into leaky pipes in Dublin? Fix the pipes. Leave us alone in Tipperary. Stop this madness.