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- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: What about stables?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Where did the Taoiseach go to school?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: When the Taoiseach next stands outside houses, he will be looking for votes rather than looking at paint.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: A one-liner.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Like bloodhounds.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is blood lust.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: That is awful. It is disgraceful.
- Meath East By-election: Issue of Writ (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Shattered.
- Meath East By-election: Issue of Writ (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They will hold them back.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: All the buses are gone.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister would take it off him.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I will comment on the section and the Bill in general. It is fine for the Minister, Deputy Noonan, to wax lyrical about the Dodder and the amendments tabled by Opposition Deputies. We all appreciate his good humour and can go back to when he was a Minister 20 years ago to recall "Scrap Saturday" and the humour and sarcasm in that. I respect what the Minister is trying to do but I do not...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: There are 63 amendments to be discussed in such a short time, which is extremely unfair. On the night this tax was mooted in the budget, where was the Minister, Big Phil the enforcer, but in Doha at some kind of a world conference. That is how little he perceives the trauma being experienced by people. The Minister mentioned houses flooded by the Dodder but there are hundreds of houses...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: People whose houses are affected by radon have not been recognised. I welcome the consideration given by the Minister to the voluntary housing sector, etc. but the Bill is draconian nevertheless. Giving the Revenue Commissioners power to enter people's homes is a retrograde step. I have stated in other debates that I am self-employed and I am used to dealing with the Revenue Commissioners...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Of course. I always call him the Minister. He is the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government but he was in Doha when we discussed the matter in the budget. That is how much he cared about the ordinary people and the home owners in a perilous position. The Taoiseach did not help this morning when Deputy Boyd Barrett tried to raise the issue. He scoffed, laughed, joked...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: People are making an effort to work their way out of problems and they are willing to pay. Nevertheless, they cannot take this as they will be driven completely to penury. The Revenue Commissioners and banks will be after these people, along with sheriffs and illegal bandits recovering debts. Those bandits are not subject to any Garda clearance. If a person is to work in a crèche or...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: We are certainly moving away from it and I am very sorry for that. I beg your indulgence.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach did not help today, which is a pity. Is mór an trua é. The public are watching and it is a shame to see a line of Ministers scoffing and laughing at this. The scoffing will be on the other side of their faces soon enough. They will get the first taste of that when they head to the plains of Meath.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister did not hear me.