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- 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 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: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, line 23, after “shall” to insert “not”.
- Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I ask the Deputy to stick to the section, please.
- Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy is straying a bit. I ask him to come back to the amendment.
- 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.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy might give way to his colleagues.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I ask Deputy Healy-Rae to conclude please. There are three Deputies left and approximately four minutes.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: Two minutes remain. Deputy Naughten might give a minute to his colleague, Deputy Smith.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: Dhá nóiméad.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: The time has elapsed.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I cannot do anything about it. The time is set down by order of the Government.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I call Deputy Michael Healy-Rae.