Results 81-100 of 951 for long speaker:Mattie McGrath

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...been there only ten minutes but the costs were frightening. I will be honest and tell the truth - those costs are still outstanding. Even though I was acting in good faith and in the public interest, I was hit with costs along with Councillor Joe Hannigan, rather than the public interest being served. It beggared belief that night at midnight when the Government relented and allowed the...

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

Mattie McGrath: I am glad that Deputy Coveney is here today standing in for the Taoiseach because he has long experience in foreign affairs. A citizen from Clonmel, Mr. John White, has been incarcerated in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates for a number of years. He was imprisoned for debt - company debt rather than personal debt. He has had two strokes and has just been released from hospital. His sister...

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am very surprised at the Minister. I know him a long time. He is standing behind the signal given by the Government in 2019 and supporting a significant change of the fleet. Some people took it up and some did not. Some people could not afford it. Many had no faith in it. The Government obviously has no faith in this now either. It talks about the national children's hospital, but...

Finance Bill 2023: Financial Resolution (18 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...the Minister has made. As the last speaker mentioned, we have gone solar. Táimid iontach ar fad. It is fabulous that the sun is shining. We must do something meaningful because for too long we could cross the Border into Northern Ireland and see solar panels on many buildings, domestic and otherwise. I note this measure is confined to domestic use. We are being dragged kicking...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: .... I am often critical of the Minister for Health, and rightly so in my opinion, but I welcome his decision to get rid of these punitive charges. As previous speakers said, people can have long-term illnesses which mean they have to attend diabetic clinics, attend for dialysis as well as for many other treatments on a regular basis and the hospital charges mount up. Hospitals charge so...

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State talked about the second half of 2023 and maybe we will get something in 2024. We cannot wait that long, because everything is being harvested up, including people's cash reserves, their patience and their resilience. Above all, this is about our support for the people we are elected to represent. We are not elected to drive them off the edge of a cliff. This...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...; the average waiting time; what steps are his Department taking to ensure that these cases are expedited; what steps are his Department taking to ensure that future cases will not have to wait so long; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11798/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...The importance of the housing aid for older people grant, the mobility aids grant scheme and the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability, which enable people to live independently in their homes for longer, cannot be overstated. These grants have improved people's lives and well-being in the past and have seen them have long and happy lives at home but unfortunately, the...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...blood and their hard earned taxes to bail out the banks. It is disgusting how the banks have treated the people. As Deputy Collins said, we needed to take action last year to stop them going cashless, but for how long. The bank's intention is to hell with the people. If someone does not have a plastic card now or if he or she is not a number, then forget about it. People have to...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...be going from Galway to Tipperary or Tipperary to Sligo. That is how ridiculous the practice is and it is burning out ambulances. I salute the paramedics and their professionalism. They work long hours and then when they have almost returned home after a long shift, they get a call to go elsewhere. They are being blackguarded and bullied and their morale is being destroyed by abuse....

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...;na stood idly by. We had more meetings with the Garda Síochána in Dungarvan, and with chief superintendents and assistant commissioners, all for nothing and the families are waiting for answers. It is going on that length of time now and no answers. The anguish and the suffering, no closure. How long is a piece of string? That is what has happened them. They have been left...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...with the secretariat. I am not blaming the secretariat; it is not its fault. We always have a back and forth. It is appreciated and we do our best to facilitate. This is not acceptable, by a long shot.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...needed. As the Minister knows, in some hospitals, including in my local hospital in south Tipperary, it is impossible to get a visitor, never mind an advocate, in. This has been ongoing for a long time due to bugs and whatever reasons. I was in a hospital two weeks ago tomorrow and I could walk in with no problem in the world. It was St. Vincent's University Hospital and I got well...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...before and they will walk again. Yet they will give Government Deputies their walking boots, their marching boots and their running boots, and there will be no hiding place for those Deputies. The long grass will not be there to hide them either, so it will be a case of off with ye - ye have done too much damage.

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...agreed to extending this disrespectful and deceitful practice. Clearly, the Taoiseach’s explanation of his involvement in this cruel scandal is not credible. This disgusting issue has been swept under the carpet for too long. The public must be provided with transparency, openness, and accountability which we hear so much about. We have millions of euro and teams of spin doctors...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ..., which someone can stand over or there are not. Therefore, I ask the Minister of State to correct the information and the record of the Dáil. She also stated that the hospital was deemed to be no longer fit for purpose by HIQA. Can the witnesses or anyone provide a specific report that states that HIQA said it is not fit for purpose? HIQA has never stated that in any of its...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We give our opinions all day long. That is my opinion.

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...here might like to see me locked up. Thanks be to God, everybody here has a good name. This legislation is worrying as well as everything else. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ICCL, along with six academics working in the area, wrote an open letter to the Minister for Justice in November noting the use of facial recognition technology also raises serious and challenging issues...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...in there. I have a number of constituents who are 20 weeks on a waiting list. It is a serious worry for people when they have had a biopsy. Having to wait 20 weeks for it to be analysed is too long. They need more resources in the hospital laboratory to deal with this and take people out when they get a good diagnosis or whatever they get. Hopefully it is good but sometimes it is not...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I support amendment No. 27 in the name of Deputy Tóibín and the other amendments. As my colleague, Deputy Funchion, said, how long is a piece of string? There is a lack of clarity. We have had sad experiences with most elements of our public system now. That extends even to getting a passport or a driving licence, which are totally mundane issues compared with the seriousness of...