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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Some democracy.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Could I come back in, please?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It is a Fine Gael show; that is what it is looking like.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It looks like muzzling.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: His excuse for not meeting our group is reprehensible.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister knows what I think.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I support what the previous Deputies said. It is horrible what is happening with the rogue industries and rogue operators that are in this. In general, they are very well mannered and well operated. There are some great operators and excellent staff. They did and are coming to the fore. For instance, our hospitals could not and cannot function without them. Unfortunately, they are...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 2: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “Report on abolition and replacement of Universal Social Charge 3.The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, produce a report on abolishing the Universal Social Charge for all those earning less than €70,000 per year and replacing it with a National Solidarity...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: May I debate the amendment on the next Stage?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I want to re-enter the amendment on Report Stage.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Weather Events (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if emergency funding for drainage works and the repair of roads networks will be provided to Tipperary County Council in response to severe flooding and unprecedented levels of rainfall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56055/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (10 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance if he and his Government will instruct the Revenue Commissioners, and by extension Revenue sheriffs, to place a suspension on the reported avalanche of revenue debt enforcement referrals, pertaining to the collection of tax debt on SMEs until at least the end of 2023, given that small businesses are struggling with the fallout from forced pandemic...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, support Deputy Ó Broin's amendment. Not that I have fundamental hang-ups about referendums. I have a strong conviction that the men and women and local authority officials who have looked after water so well in all weathers and in the face of all challenges over the decades need to be respected and treated well. I do not know if naming a date for the referendum will do...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I am. I am nearly finished. They are entitled to be consulted too-----

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ----to pump it into leaky pipes in Dublin. I have nothing against the people in Dublin, in case someone would think I have, but there is 50% of the water leaking in Dublin. When it leaks out, when there are outages and everything else, obviously, other commodities leak back in. Some of them are very unsavoury. I have a bit of experience in this work and I know what I am talking about. It...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: No.

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We are happy.

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I was there at the start of it.

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Does the Deputy know what I mean by it?