Results 1-20 of 29 for sligo speaker:Mattie McGrath

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

Mattie McGrath: ...past nine, the ambulance is dispatched at four minutes past nine. It is a paper exercise. The ambulance could be 200 miles away. It could 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...

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

Mattie McGrath: ..., 50 years ago. We badly need this station. We now have a site and planning and design has been done but there is no sign of the airgead. It was lumped in with a bundle of different Garda stations that then fell off the train. This included Bandon and Sligo. It is now bundled with another Garda station in Cork but it is also in a bundle with the children's law court. When getting a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Dec 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...has been raised in this House for the last 40 years, if not more. It is not fit for purpose. The Department of Justice has been playing games. It was bundled as a group with two other stations, one at Sligo and one at Macroom. Now, the Department has decided in its wisdom to bundle it in with a new children's court building. They are two different animals altogether. There are...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...has been going on for 50 or 60 years. We have planning permission and a wonderful design for a brand new station and a site has been found. The project was included in different packages and bundles of stations all over the country, including Sligo, Clonakilty and others. There has been change after change, the latest of which was a gigantic one. Gardaí in Clonmel, under the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...Comhairle for their forbearance. It was not easy. The Clonmel Garda station project is still languishing. We have a lovely site, planning permission and a wonderful design. Another Deputy raised the Sligo Garda station project during the week. Sligo, Clonakilty and Clonmel Garda station projects were in a public private partnership, PPP, package. Sligo has fallen off the...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...Fáil and Fine Gael have behaved recklessly towards the health service. Student nurses have been mistreated. It is an unbelievable scandal. A good friend of mine, Niamh, is a student nurse on placement in Sligo. She has gone into every situation in the Covid crisis, as they all have. The have gone to the front line to help out and to work, despite the hours, the pressure, the...

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (12 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...without the support of the public. I give them that support and I have been involved in the community alert scheme since 1998. I salute the ordinary rank and file but we need accountability up the line. I salute the gardaí in Sligo over the weekend, where we had a lot of guests. They did an excellent job and could not have been more courteous and pleasant. Every day and night...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...of lives. Driving on bad and defective tyres, especially on a wet road, is really very dangerous and serious, which many of us do not know. As I said, that was a wonderful app, a wonderful idea. He went by appointment to meet the head of the RSA in Sligo. He travelled from Cahir in Tipperary to Sligo for a Monday morning meeting. He closed his business early on Sunday night, stayed in...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...some will just drive until they get a skid and then we see the tyre is bald. The Minister organised a meeting with this chap after about 18 months with the head of the RSA, and I thank him for that again. Unfortunately, the appointment was in Sligo on a Monday morning. The young man duly closed his business early on Sunday night and drove to Athlone or somewhere, booked into a bed and...

Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...very fairly with him. However, when the young man went to meet the god - I should not invoke God on Holy Thursday, I will say the person who thinks they are God - in the RSA, she never turned up to meet him. He had travelled to Sligo. The Minister knows about this. It was an insult. An appointment had been made, and the man stood waiting for a long time. They are above us. They are...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Station Refurbishment (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...the entrance. I know how planning permission happens. This has to be done. I accept completely the Minister's bona fides but I want to see procurement of the bundle of the three stations in Sligo, Macroom and Clonmel finalised. It would be a pity for one to hold up the others for so long. If this is the case perhaps we can change bundles. It is so near now and yet so far. For the...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Station Refurbishment (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...under the capital funding project. Nonetheless, we did not see the station open. Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran is now the Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW. There is a bundle of stations in Sligo, one in Cork and one elsewhere. There are some technical delays on land issues and disputes over rights of way and so on. However, the people of Clonmel and the Garda...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Did he not go to Sligo?

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...other people from Cork. They are now insisting that there is no money, even for preliminary investigations or studies to be carried out. Limerick to Cork sounded good and it looked good. It was announced in Cork first and then the Ministers went to Sligo to announce this one. They went to Sligo just to give the impression that it was not a Dublin-centric plan. It is Dublin-centric....

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...big towns, but in country areas we have nothing. It is like the Third World in many parts of rural Ireland that I try to represent. I heard some news tonight from the Minister's constituency, or perhaps it was Sligo. It is totally frustrating to have to try to run a business without broadband; it cannot be done. We know that we have to have the modern tools of trade. I am a...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...expense and offered great expertise and advice and the Minister's Department organised a meeting with the head of the Road Safety Authority. He closed his premises early one Sunday night, drove to Sligo and stayed at a bed and breakfast establishment in order to be at the meeting with the boss of the Road Safety Authority. He turned up but the man from the authority never did. That is...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...public, are appalling. We have had announcement after announcement that work on the building would commence but, as is the case with Macroom station, there is a hold-up because of the bundling with Sligo. Will the Minister ensure work commences on the four stations in this bundle? Clonmel is the largest inland town in the country but its Garda station is more suited to Cromwellian...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: .... We should bring in lay people and retired politicians who have a wealth of knowledge - no more than the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. We need common sense to prevail. We do not need attacks and forays like those affecting south-west Cavan, Sligo-Leitrim and indeed south Donegal. The men who drew that up were crazy. They must be asleep or been out the night before.

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...everything else. We are constantly being talked at by the head of the RSA. I had a man who had a good idea on how to save people's lives. He got an appointment, after waiting for 12 months, in Sligo. The lady from the RSA did not even turn up. The appointment was made through the Minister's office. That is the contempt that ordinary people with good ideas about road safety are...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage (13 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: .... That goes up to the Department. That takes six months to come back down. That one is then sent back up after perhaps two months and it takes another six months to come back down. Then it goes to Sligo, Carlow or seven different places around the country. It is the same for voluntary housing. I am a proud member of a voluntary housing association. It is small, but it built 14...