Results 16,461-16,480 of 20,825 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: Brostaigh ort.
- Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I would point out to the Minister that amendment No. 2 has not been disallowed.
- Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, but amendment No. 2 has not.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, line 23, after “shall” to insert “not”.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I too am supporting this amendment which we have moved already. The property tax came in with all kinds of promises, and everything else, and all kinds of issues. There have been ongoing debates about the amount of property tax people are paying in Dublin, the value of the property and the money going to rural roads. The fact of the matter is it is not going anywhere. The amount of waste...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: This is exactly to do with the amendment. The amendment from the Rural Independent Group concerns how we are being unfairly portrayed as I do not know what and how the Government is trying to extract more money from rural people. You cannot get blood out of a stone. They are struggling and being put to the pin of their collar just to live and pay their way. They want to be left alone. We...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: We read and researched this legislation. Then we tabled an amendment to the Bill, which we are entitled to do. We are thankful for having been allowed to speak on it. I stand over our issues in this regard. We are again dancing to European tunes. It is now 0.4047 hectare because of a European desire. The Minister would of course know nothing about this, but the typical cottage and...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister has just got into it.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: No, the Minister has just got into it. I would please just like to have one moment. The Minister has gone into this matter and he is regurgitating words attributed to me by journalists. Those are the selfsame journalists who have been paid handsomely during the Covid-19 debate, as well as newspapers and other publications, to do the Government’s spin and narrative for it. The...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I will stand up for the rural people of Ireland and they will make their decision regarding whether they will vote for me or not, and not the Dublin 4 set.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I support the amendments. The situation is very unfair. I cannot understand how it costs €6,000 for the assessment. Families are being devastated and must try to house themselves when their homes are destroyed. It is obvious to anyone involved with a degree of knowledge of building that there are serious defects. The Government should set up a scheme whereby a group of assessors...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: 153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent of the engagements that he has had with a person (details supplied) and the families of the Omagh bomb victims; the steps he has taken to commence a full cross-Border public enquiry into the Omagh bombing; and if he will engage with the victims’ families as the 23rd anniversary of the tragedy approaches in August. [38227/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: 433. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the approval of the drug zolgensma; when the drug will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31567/21]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, we did not have any questions. That is unfair. I want the Tánaiste to withdraw that remark. He knows the process for parliamentary questions. That is scandalous.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: Because the Tánaiste is telling lies.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I think they want a row before the holidays again to make sure they are relevant. There is a list of questions from designated people. These are outrageous and scurrilous lies.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: Fake news.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I too wish all the staff of the Houses well, from the Garda Síochána outside and inside through to Peter Finnegan. I also thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and Ceann Comhairle for their forbearance. It was not easy. The Clonmel Garda station project is still languishing. We have a lovely site, planning permission and a wonderful design....
- Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: We will hear first from Deputy Devlin.