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

Mattie McGrath: .... Niall Molloy, who was brutally killed at a wedding in Offaly. Fr. Molloy had Tipperary relations. There is the Whiddy Island disaster, where 50 people lost their lives. There are John O'Brien and Pat Esmonde of Tipperary, who were literally murdered off the coast of Helvick ten years ago, with no investigation. It is cover-up after cover-up. I will mention Shane O'Farrell, that...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...no clue what is going on. I could say worse but I do not believe they have. We built the M8 motorway and all of us here use it going home on the weekends and coming to Dublin. It is a fabulous project. God be with Pat Mulcair, a Limerick man. That project was on time and under budget. It was on time or ahead of time. We saw that work. Why can other projects not be done like that?...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (18 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...with the massive profits the energy companies have taken from the people who can least afford to pay, including householders and small businesses which are closing by the hour due to costs. Then Government then pats itself on the back for increasing the minimum wage. It has no understanding whatsoever. Do Ministers not talk to small business owners to understand the difficulties they...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ..., so we are in a hopeless situation. It is unfair that people in towns like Carrick-on-Suir and the surrounding areas are left like this with barely any service. I salute the gardaí who are there and Garda Pat Kelly, who retired recently. They are great people but they cannot do the work on their own. They need supports and numbers. What is the Government going to do about it?

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: This constant bashing of employers has to stop. I am not going to talk about Pat McDonagh or anybody else. They are good employers but there might be issues there; I do not know. However, employers should be respected because workers will walk away and work elsewhere if they are not paid. The market is there and there is the market value. People must be respected in work. However, I...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (16 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...Maurice Quinlivan - to discuss the declining numbers of dentists partaking in the dental treatment service scheme. Deputy Pa Daly - to discuss the ongoing review of the rural social scheme. Deputy Pat Buckley - to discuss the closure of Owenacurra mental health unit. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - to discuss the situation facing residents at Beaumont Residential Care. Deputy Robert...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...the sector has gone into such big, powerful entities. Now we have it again, given what is going on with the fertiliser. It is shocking. I want to salute the suppliers of the world, the likes of Pat Myers in south Tipperary and east Cork and many others. Indeed, when farmers struggle with bad springs and shortages of fodder, these small suppliers have the ethos that the co-ops were set...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...the gardaí will tell us has been a successful roster. There are thoughts of putting it back up to four. As it stands with three, they do not have enough members in Carrick-on-Suir, which is a 24-hour Garda station, to fill one roster. I pay tribute to Garda Pat Kelly, who retired recently. That is an alarming situation in a town that has plenty of problems and, never mind the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Morale is on the floor in An Garda Síochána. The issue is not compulsory retirement but people are flocking away from the job. I salute Garda Pat Kelly who recently finished his term in Carrick-on-Suir. The number of gardaí in Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel, Cahir and Cashel is appallingly and frighteningly low. How far will the Government leave this go before it gives proper...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...in our area, which is made up of Newcastle, Ardfinnan, Ballybacon and Grange. Garda Walsh covers these and other areas with Garda Philly Ryan and Garda Donovan from Ballyporeen. They do an excellent job. They know the people. They have to. People go in to sign a form for a passport or something else. The garda will say "Hello Pat", "Hello John", "Hello Mary" or whatever. The people...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...like micro-generators and have no income from the ESB because the infrastructure is not there to send it back to the grid. People in rural Ireland are sick, sore and tired of being patronised, patted on the back and asked to be good boys and clean up their dirty act. We do not have the infrastructure full stop so this is not going to work. My colleagues and I asked for a report on this....

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...; sin and it is just not acceptable. The Minister of State is from the Green Party, which has its ideas. I tabled a Topical Issue matter about the Shannon pipeline. I want to salute Councillor Seamie Morris, Ms Emma Fitzpatrick, who did a report, and others in Tipperary who are opposed to this mad, bonkers plan to pipe water to Dublin from the Shannon and to have up to 47% of it...

Journalists in Conflicts across the World: Statements (24 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...lost in Whiddy Island, Bantry, in 1979 and we have not had any proper inquiries. That was whitewashed. We lost two young men off Helvick Head 15 years ago this week, John O’Brien and his friend Pat Esmonde, and we have failed to get a proper investigation. None of the board members of our Marine Casualty Investigation Board has seagoing experience. I am not trying to diminish...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: For more than 20 years, Pat and Nuala Geoghegan from Askeaton, County Limerick, have been calling for a public inquiry into the blood samples that went missing during one of the biggest ever investigations into industrial pollution. The Taoiseach already knows about this saga because he met the Geoghegans when he was Minister for Health. He called for a review on 1 April 2003 into the...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...months and why was it reduced to six months? Is the Covid certificate just a tool to get to 93% or 94% or whatever percentage the Government wants to tell people it has rolled out vaccines to, so it can pat itself on the back? We know there is a third jab. The Tánaiste said at some stage it was not a booster but a third jab. Will there be four, five and six doses? When is it...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, rise to wish a silent lament that former Deputy Pat The Cope Gallagher is not here. He stopped this by way of statutory instruments. The Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, who, when he in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on an acting basis - having unceremoniously disposed of two of his Ministers - signed it only to reverse his decision. He would do anything...

Regional Airports and Aviation: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...idly by. Those in government are like bystanders – shamefully innocent bystanders. One would think they were asleep. They are in some kind of a trance. One person is too many to be sick in hospital but we had 67 patients in hospital on Monday, supposedly with Covid, 23 of whom were in ICU. I wish them all a happy recovery. I remember being at the first meetings in Government...

Financial Resolution 2021 - Financial Resolution: Stamp Duties (19 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...their backs up against the wall. Farm land and family homes are now being put up overnight on a website, sold maybe in two hours without the farmer even knowing. What did Dan Breen, Seán Treacy, Michael Collins and Pat Crowe fight for? What did they all fight for at Soloheadbeg? For this? I say "No". I cannot support this.

Private Security Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...to vulture funds overnight without the consent of the owners. This is happening on land that we fought for. It is the land that was fought for by my late father - he spent 14 months in prison - and that Liam Lynch, Michael Collins, Dan Breen, Seán Tracey, Pat Crowe and many others fought for. Are we back to this now? This Bill is really inadequate and our group will be submitting...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...vaccines from Europe. When one looks across the pond at our nearest neighbours, it is staggering to see that they have administered 12.6 million vaccines, which they acquired from outside the EU. We are patting ourselves on the back that we have 350,000 or so people vaccinated. I am tired of asking the Minister about the flu vaccination programme that was rolled out late last summer,...