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Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: And so say all of us.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I would like to be associated with the tribute to an Teachta Shortall. Thirty-two years is a long time. What is the song? Twenty-one years is long but 32 years is much longer for a female. Well done to the Deputy. I wish her the best of luck. We have been around the Houses and the Minister has had his backbenchers in to praise his fiscal policy. If any ordinary business person...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We can spend hours talking about this. USC, as I said at the outset, is a disingenuous, heinous and cruel tax that was brought in as a temporary arrangement after the crash. The coalition Government promised to abolish it. The Minister might shake his head and say that Fianna Fáil did not but they are one and the same now - totally hybrid. The Green Party members are hanging around...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 2: Report on abolition and replacement of universal social charge 3. (1) The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, produce a report on abolishing the universal social charge for all those who earn less than €70,000 per year. (2) The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, produce a report on abolishing the...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I agree. The public who are watching, if they are watching, see these funny arguments between Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin, but the real thing is that the Government promised that it would abolish the universal social charge. Abolish means finito, gone, not tinkering around with the bands and raising them a bit and everything else. The Minister's party made the promise in its...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Fianna Fáil said it would abolish it

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: They are all the same.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: What happened to Fianna Fáil's promise before the last election that it was going to abolish the USC? Its members will go out canvassing on the doors again and make more promises. What credibility do they think they can have with people? Fianna Fáil and other parties promised they would abolish it. I remember when it was, to quote the late Albert Reynolds, "a temporary little...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “ “investment undertaking” includes a retail credit firm as defined in section 28 of the Central Bank Act 1997 and any other person who owns credit which is being serviced by a credit servicer as defined in section 28(2) of that Act.”. I am very concerned about the lack of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome Councillor Richie Molloy, a manager of Family Carers Ireland in south Tipperary, and the group from Clonmel to the Gallery. My office has been inundated with calls about ophthalmology services in Clonmel in south Tipperary. I pay tribute, first, to Dr. Hillery who has retired. My office has received numerous complaints. We are informed that Dr. Hillery gave her notice of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Not a single one.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I too support the calls for the occupied territories Bill to be passed. If necessary, we can sit on Friday, if the Government does not otherwise have the time. When to call the election is in the Taoiseach's hands. He has dithered about it for long enough. I also call for a debate on the scandalous situation throughout Tipperary regarding the lack of Garda numbers. It was never worse....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Maybe after the election.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Sit over here.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 69. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on an application for a foreign birth registration (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44025/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 276. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of fuel merchants in Northern Ireland selling fossil fuels in the Republic of Ireland at a price which fuel merchants in the Republic are unable to compete against, which is putting many fuel merchants out of business because the tariffs and taxes imposed in the Republic are much higher than those in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 336. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary is currently not included in the IDA's plans to bring industry to the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44887/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 337. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the criteria used by the IDA in designating a town for the location of foreign direct investment. [44888/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 338. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a note of the legislation detailing the reason Carrick-on-Suir is excluded from IDA plans to attract industry to the town. [44898/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 339. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the criteria used by the IDA, in designating a town for the location of foreign direct investment. [44899/24]