Irish liberals have spent the last half decade accusing everyone remotely to the right of Karl Marx of being a “Nazi-Fascist-Far-Right-Uber-Hitler.” But now that label has been levelled at the government and their lockdown, that comparison is too far and simply beyond the pale. The controversy came when Mattie McGrath TD of the Rural Independent […]
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Rural Independent TDs have said that without major amendments the Climate Action Bill “blatantly attacks the fabric of rural Ireland and our democracy”. Ahead of the Report Stage debate and vote on the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill in the Dáil, the Rural Independent TDs hd called on backbench government TDs to […]
This Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 202 is perhaps the most far-reaching piece of legislation to come before the current Dáil. My colleagues and I, in the Rural Independent Group, are fully committed to improving the environment and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. However, we believe that in pursuing these noble objectives, […]
Tipperary TD, Mattie McGrath has said that Dr Tony Holohan told him “we are dealing with a pandemic, we will do the lockdown and do the science later,” when he challenged the Chief Medical Officer on the science behind the continued closure of churches in the lockdown. Deputy McGrath said that there had been “no […]
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has ripped “feeble” Irish leaders, and said they will not stand up to “diabolical” measures like the green travel passport because they want to be “the good boys of Europe.” Speaking in the Dáil on Europe Day this week, Deputy McGrath from Tipperary slammed the government’s love-affair with the European Union. […]
“This is about compassion”: A new bill seeks to ensure pain relief is given to unborn babies whose lives are being ended by painful late-term abortion. The bill, presented by Carol Nolan TD, is being co-sponsored by 11 TDs. #gript
A group of TDs are co-sponsoring a new bill which seeks to ensure that pain relief will be given to unborn babies who are aborted after 20 weeks gestation. Describing it as a humane and reasonable proposal, the TDs said that the measure was worthy of majority support in the Dáil. In recent months […]
TDs have sternly hit out at the “totalitarian” ban on protests under the covid-19 restrictions, where taxi drivers who planned to protest inside their cars have been prohibited from demonstrating by Gardaí. “In the last couple of hours, I have been informed by the four national representative taxi groups that the Garda has banned their […]
“It’s not about climate change – it’s about control”: Rural Independent TDs lay into Climate Bill and call for major amendments. #gript
The Rural Independent TDs has sharply criticised the government for what it called its catastrophic failure to provide adequate cancer services across the public health system. “While the Health Minister obsesses on Twitter self-promotion – cancer patients survival rates go backwards, due to targeted government health services cuts,” the leader of the group Deputy Mattie […]
Tipperary Deputy Mattie McGrath has strongly criticised the government decision to appoint a former Labour Minister, Kathleen Lynch, to lead a task force and publish yet another report on mental health. Speaking from his Tipperary constituency, Deputy Mattie McGrath said: “Ireland currently has one of the highest levels of mental illness in the EU. It […]