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Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: May I make a point of order? We are debating this important recommendation to this legislation but the House does not have a quorum. I wish to call a quorum, más é do thoil é.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Department officials for spotting this. There was much debate and many amendments in the Chamber from Deputies Fitzmaurice and Michael McGrath and myself about the whole stamp duty issue in respect of land and property. I have dealt with those real estate investment trusts, REITs and such operations. I said at the time that they were Ponzi schemes. We had huge opportunities to...

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Never forget Kerry.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister for his assurances but how can he assure us that there was no loss to the State during the period when this loophole existed? Deputy Fitzmaurice and I tabled an amendment on budget night and appealed to the Minister and to other parties on behalf of small businesses, shop keepers and whatever. We talk about the rejuvenation of rural Ireland and of towns and villages but...

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, but I am not finished. We are all in a hurry but the hurry goes off us the same as it comes on us.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is relevant.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is not repetition.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: What are we repeating? I am entitled under the-----

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Thank you. We want support for these ordinary people, ordinary families and ordinary business people who put their hands in their pockets, borrowed as much as they could and perhaps had support from families. Some may also have had some money from the credit union thrown in. We are not talking about the Four Roads to Glenamaddy, like the former Taoiseach announced in Edgeworthstown one...

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Homeless.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Of course, it is about them.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I accept that.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I did not ask about that.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Can I respond?

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Of course, it is about the recommendation and shares deriving value from immovable property in the State. We have a lot of immovable property in the State in the formation of land mass and farms, which Deputy Fitzmaurice spoke about. The Minister did not answer the question he was asked by Deputy Fitzmaurice which was whether it was true that these people have open access to his Department....

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am sorry if he did.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I accept that. I did not hear. I was looking at the recommendation which the Leas-Cheann Comhairle said was not relevant to scrutinise it. It is about property situated in the State. The Minister is misleading the House and me. I did not ask him for that.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I withdraw that so. I was talking about small business people and the Minister came back to say he was blocking a loophole. This loophole is completely different. What I was looking for related to small businesses and transactions involving families or the private entrepreneurs we badly need to keep in our rural towns and villages. By rural towns and villages, I mean places in Kildare...