Results 20,081-20,100 of 20,934 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I indicated long before Deputy Buttimer.
- Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I know that but the Ceann Comhairle is always leaning to one side. I am afraid his chair will capsize.
- Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: That is a fact.
- Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I have people here who saw me indicate. I indicated long before Deputy Buttimer. I will not be told to shut up by Deputy Buttimer. I would love to see the money ring-fenced for health, especially for people suffering from poisoning from smoking and indulging in those practices. I would like to see this Government removing the fear and scaremongering about which nursing homes it is going...
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I also wish to voice my opposition to this measure. As other speakers have noted, it is completely anti-rural and is completely hostile to the green environment. I was one of the backbenchers who approached the late Brian Lenihan to introduce the scrappage scheme and I note this measure is completely anti-business. Moreover, a tax on trade plates is imminent. This measure constitutes a...
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: It is a betrayal.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Is there any significance to the fact that there is only one Labour Deputy in here? Is it a case of last in, first out, as we saw today with the party's newest Deputy? The Tánaiste could go back to the people on this.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the compassion and feeling? Dublin West will be getting ready for another by-election.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: There are many people knocking on doors.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputies have met road hauliers, who are closing their businesses at a rate of one per week. It is happening in Deputy Coonan's area too.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: We have heard stories of families buying five gallons of oil to run the heating.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: This is what arises from the merciless measures of those in the Government. What about all the empty rhetoric of the last number of years? It is like snow off a ditch.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputies should be ashamed of themselves.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I am my own man.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: I am entitled to reply.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: It is a joke.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: Hold on now.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Mattie McGrath: We are having-----