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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ..., or a Member nominated in their stead, shall not exceed ten minutes each, with five minutes for all other Members and a five-minute response from a Minister or Minister of State, and all Members may share time. No. 65, Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2019, Second Stage, shall conclude within two hours. In relation to Thursday’s business, it is proposed that No. 17, motion re...

Mental Health: Statements (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...specifically for young people between the ages of 12 and 25 who are experiencing difficulties with mental health. These are the groups who are being particularly affected by the scourge of rampant drug use and misuse in our county, and it is vital they have accessible services. I know the Minister of State will agree with me about social drug taking, in particular the taking of cocaine...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...is chronic, especially since the Government closed St. Michael's in 2012. We do not have a single long-stay bed in the county for people suffering from mental health. We have a huge crisis, a drugs epidemic and associated issues. People are dying every week, and more often in some cases, due to mental health issues. We need the services to be developed in tandem with the Jigsaw project...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...a pity that they have to depend on the family income supplement, FIS, and support from their families. It is a sad reflection that the people who patrol our waters and protect our coastline from drugs coming in are in this situation. They need to be supported and we should help in whatever way we can.

Illegal Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...forward this very important motion. The numbers involved are truly staggering. As the motion indicates, individuals, families and communities throughout the country have been devastated by illegal drugs. Drug-related deaths in Ireland are at their highest ever, increasing from 431 in 2004 to 736 in 2016. The value of drug seizures has also increased from €29,706,000 in 2016 to...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...income threshold for GP visit cards and a 50 cent reduction in prescription charges from €2 to €1.50 for all medical card holders over the age of 70. There will also be a €10 reduction in the monthly drugs payment scheme threshold from €134 to €124. All these moves are welcome even if we believe far more ambitious movement could have been made on each...

Road Traffic (Amendment) (Use of Electric Scooters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (16 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...propelled vehicles. I would have major concerns here as regards fairness to others. We must be fair to everybody. I see no reference to the Road Traffic Act regarding breathalysing or drug testing for these vehicles. Is it in the Bill? What is the story? Will we have one law for Dublin and a different law for the country because the scooters will not be used in Tipperary or Cork?...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...their town and areas completely unpatrolled? It is shocking. Fr. Paul Waldron and community activists held two meetings last year because of the whole issue pertaining to mental health, suicide and the proliferation of drugs in the town. We got tokenism from senior gardaí when they met us then, promising the sun, moon and the stars. It has diminished significantly since then....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ..., such as Mr. Kevin Langton in Carrick-on-Suir, do a great job. There is the musical society. We have a proud record of culture and heritage, but it is being adversely affected by the position regarding Garda numbers and the drugs epidemic. As an extension, crime and mental health issues are proliferating and there are no services available. We do not have one long-stay bed available....

Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...not supporting this Bill. We are dancing around on the head of a pin while huge, explosive issues are going to come down the track regarding what is going on inside our prisons. We can see examples of what is going on all over the country. I am referring to drugs and all of the other things going on inside prisons. Criminals are operating better inside than outside and they cannot do...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (10 Jul 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...Tipperary to save our hospital and now we are dealing with this also. There are groups such as C-saw, Taxi Watch and the River Suir Suicide Watch out night and day patrolling. There is an epidemic of drug dealing in Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel, Tipperary town and many other towns. Every town and village has a crisis with drugs and there is nobody to deal with it. CAMHS, with regard to...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...and attacked pay for that with their taxes. Then they go into the luxury of jails that are like hotels to learn more about crime before they come out again. They are starting as young as eight and ten years old now in the drug cartel in Clonmel delivering the drugs and they have immunity because they are children. It is shocking. The Government knows who is doing it and the Garda knows...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...Dominic Hayes and Superintendent Willie Leahy. At least 25 gardaí are needed to bring the Clonmel district which covers Carrick-on-Suir up to normal numbers. We have an acute problem with drugs and drug gangs. We are looking perilously at Drogheda, Longford and other areas and going to be there if action is not taken. I support what gardaí on the ground are doing, but they...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: .... We have a huge issue at present in the Clonmel Garda district, which includes Carrick-on-Suir. The Tánaiste is probably aware there is a huge issue with mental health issues and associated drug crime. It is an epidemic and is leading to many suicides. The community there is calling for action. Sergeant Mick Hubbard, Garda Pat Kelly and others in Carrick-on-Suir are doing their...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...and incrementally and taken their lives over. We are plagued with suicides, in the town of Carrick-on-Suir recently and the whole south Tipperary area, and we do not have the resources to deal with it. Many of them are for drug debts and gambling debts that people have inadvertently sleep-walked into. We need decisive, cohesive and dedicated responses from compassionate counselling...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...and the problem we are discussing. My good wife is a qualified psychiatric nurse. There are many types of addictions, all kinds of traumatic, desperate, sad and tragic situations. While there might be alcohol or drug addictions, the gambling addiction happens quietly, succinctly and behind closed doors, or not even behind them perhaps in a family setting where a wife or partner, or a...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (12 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...station about which we have had promise after promise. I accept his bona fides that he is doing his best to sort it out with the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin "Boxer" Moran, but I refer to the conditions that gardaí have to work with in Clonmel Garda station, the lack of numbers and the drug problem we have in Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir. I attended a very sad funeral yesterday...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (26 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 580. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug driving arrests made by county in the south-eastern Garda division from 2014 to 2018, inclusive, and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14159/19]

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

Mattie McGrath: ...has made an unmitigated mess of everything he has touched. I say that for two reasons. The first is his lack of knowledge and disinterest and the second is that the power went to his head. It was like a drug. He listened to nobody. He would not take advice from anybody. He knew it all. He has his colleagues in the Independent Alliance. They are decent people but they will suffer at...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...; “termination of pregnancy carried out by surgical means” means a termination of pregnancy which involves carrying out a procedure other than or in addition to the administration or self-administration of a drug or drugs to the pregnant woman in order to end the life of a foetus. (11) Subsections (4), (5), (7)and (8) shall not apply to the woman who has availed of the...