Results 13,161-13,180 of 21,019 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (1 Dec 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 560. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will amend the taxation and valuation system of commercial properties via commercial rates, through the introduction of a commercial site value tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42363/15]
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: What is the Tánaiste's role?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: The Government did not burn the bondholders.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: What year?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: It is closed. It is gone.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: What is the Government going to do with it?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: It has.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Very few.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (26 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address the specific concerns outlined in correspondence (details supplied) regarding Operation Thor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42204/15]
- Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: I do not mind. I am talking about when it comes down to areas like Tipperary. The Minister has been given figures by Deputy Pringle and others to show how such areas are being neglected.
- Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: I want to ask the Minister about Garda overtime. I have been told by gardaí on the beat in Tipperary, in the traffic corps and elsewhere, that overtime is going back by the new time. It is not being spent or used. There is pressure from headquarters to save the overtime. That is a damning indictment. I stood outside a little man's house near the famed Slievenamon at 12 o'clock...
- Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Good man. Thank you very much. This Government has run out of time. Its time is up. We are going to call time very soon. The public will do that with the peann luaidhe. It will have lead in its pencil this time. The public will make its mark in support of the people who stood with it, rather than the people who promised it everything only to leave it to be attacked and marauded by...
- Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy is late.
- Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Does the Deputy know where Templemore is?
- Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister should bring the Deputy down in her car and show her where Templemore is.
- Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Templemore is in County Tipperary.
- Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Mitchell O'Connor should get a satnav.
- Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, am delighted to speak on the Bill and I wish the Minister well, as I have done in the past. Although it is an effort, it is too little too late. Deputy Stanton, who is Chairman of the justice committee and does good work there, referred to the important Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill, which I introduced here on one occasion in the Minister's presence and on two previous...
- Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)
Mattie McGrath: I have the figures from the CSO. They are not manicured. There were 3,091 recorded burglaries in Tipperary over a four-year period. It is a terrifying statistic. Confirmation of the level of recorded burglaries for County Tipperary in the past four years is a damning indictment of Government crime prevention policy. For rural Ireland, it has been death by a 1,000 cuts until, at last, the...