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Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with the United Arab Emirates: Motions (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Elect, I said. President-elect.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: In Ireland, in politics and in life, we should be careful what we wish for. I am looking at a picture sent to me of a recent tweet the Taoiseach posted with a picture of a Kamala Harris baseball cap. Was he supporting one side or the other? How come it is only in Ireland that we are having an evaluation of what happened during Covid? In every other jurisdiction I am aware of, they are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Even though the election was not going to be until next year, end of term.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: That will not get you out of jail.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: One engagement.

Carer's Allowance: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. We sound patronising here but we just cannot thank carers enough. They really are angels of mercy for the work they do and the way they do it. I had the privilege yesterday, along with Councillor Richie Molloy, of welcoming to the Dáil Gallery and the Dáil restaurant a group of carers who had earlier attended a function in the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I am extremely disappointed to hear the Minister of State read out another waffle from the Department. The Department is currently assessing the options. Just imagine that. I have a document here from December 2022, when the Department promised 12 modular classrooms to deal with the accommodation. In February 2023 the Department of Education changed it and listed five modular classrooms,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue. I am annoyed, too. We have put this debate off a few times so that we might get the Minister for Education to attend, but she has steadfastly refused. Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Ms Siobhán Keyes Ryan, all the staff, the pupils, their families and the parents association, and the supporters of Scoil Aonghusa who...

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I too welcome any efforts made to reform the family law courts. Courthouses like those in Clonmel, Tipperary and Nenagh do not have the facilities for separation of families from criminal law, so they are all in the one building. That does not make for good, pleasant or easy management for anybody, but most importantly for the family. The Minister will say I am always critical but I...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It flip flops.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I said to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Mar fhocal scoir. I did. I said the major bondholders went off scot-free, although they had insurance bonds, so the Irish people were doubly robbed by the bailout and the USC the Government promised it would get rid of.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Can I continue? Many of them are coming in here for refugee status and many are economic migrants. They will be coming back in. If the Government members are honest with themselves, they know from knocking at the doors they are meeting parents who have tears in their eyes because their brightest and best and loved ones are abroad. They have married, settled down and are having children...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: And so say all of us.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I would like to be associated with the tribute to an Teachta Shortall. Thirty-two years is a long time. What is the song? Twenty-one years is long but 32 years is much longer for a female. Well done to the Deputy. I wish her the best of luck. We have been around the Houses and the Minister has had his backbenchers in to praise his fiscal policy. If any ordinary business person...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We can spend hours talking about this. USC, as I said at the outset, is a disingenuous, heinous and cruel tax that was brought in as a temporary arrangement after the crash. The coalition Government promised to abolish it. The Minister might shake his head and say that Fianna Fáil did not but they are one and the same now - totally hybrid. The Green Party members are hanging around...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 2: Report on abolition and replacement of universal social charge 3. (1) The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, produce a report on abolishing the universal social charge for all those who earn less than €70,000 per year. (2) The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, produce a report on abolishing the...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I agree. The public who are watching, if they are watching, see these funny arguments between Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin, but the real thing is that the Government promised that it would abolish the universal social charge. Abolish means finito, gone, not tinkering around with the bands and raising them a bit and everything else. The Minister's party made the promise in its...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Fianna Fáil said it would abolish it

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: They are all the same.