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Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is regulated but my point is that the regulator - as is the case with most regulators - is useless. We have seen it in the insurance industry and in the context of energy prices. Look at the concrete industry. It is a cabal of the highest order and the regulator is doing nothing. All the smaller people are being forced out of business and gobbled up. We have regulators and legislation...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. Clearly, there is a huge crisis for the health insurance market and it is deepening by the day, if not by the hour. I first started thinking about health insurance when I got married in 1984. I started my family and established a business. When health insurance products first come onto the market, I welcome them with open arms. I do not...

Legal Proceedings against Members of Dáil Éireann: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted that the Business Committee has taken this course of action as we have no choice but to defend the legal proceedings, although I vindicate the right of former Deputy Joe Costello or any citizen to take a case. The Government needed to be prodded and former Deputy Joe Costello prodded it well. The matter has been placed on the Order Paper for next week and will be discussed...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I too am very concerned about this, having listened to the Minister of State's contribution and read his speech. It is proposed that we join up to these two projects just on a whim, as it were. This motion was slipped into the business today nicely when people are very busy with everything else. What would have happened if an election had been called? Would the Government have put down...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal. I did not interrupt the Deputy. It has happened before with respect to soldiers when the Deputy opened her mouth where she should not have, and she knows where that got her.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am in possession.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Deputy knows well what I am talking about.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Can I continue?

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not casting any aspersions. I am just saying that things were said before about soldiers.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not need any lecture from Deputy Chambers.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I just said that the Deputy was casting aspersions on other Members who were not supporting this motion, and if she did not mention us, I am also a member of the Rural Independent Group. We are not supporting and will not be supporting this motion and neither will we be taking any lectures. I added a caveat that the Deputy got into trouble before for saying things about soldiers, when it...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I will not lower myself to that standard, not on this particular day anyway. I also congratulate the new Tánaiste and wish him well. Like Deputy Martin, he passes through Tipperary when he goes to Dublin. I also congratulate the newly appointed Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Heather Humphreys. It is a very important brief because of Brexit, which is having a...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Confidence and supply.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Stamp Duty (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate the move the Minister made after the budget Statement, having been contacted by many Deputies and farming organisations. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice and I tabled amendments on budget night, but they were voted down. The Minister has moved on the consanguinity relief clause and removed the age limit, but uncertainty was caused. He has not clarified the position where land deals...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Stamp Duty (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There has been a trebling of the rate from 2% to 6%. The Minister has stated only 3% of total revenue accrues from stamp duty, but it is false recovery. There is only a recovery in Dublin which I am glad that he has said is in the commercial building sector, not house building. The Government cannot build houses. It has completely lost its way in that regard. The Minister needs to climb...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Stamp Duty (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I accept that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Stamp Duty (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Since the Budget Statement.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Stamp Duty (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: In Dublin.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Stamp Duty (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: In Dublin.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Stamp Duty (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost-benefit analysis performed prior to the budget 2018 changes to agricultural stamp duty. [51409/17]