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Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not know if anybody else would like to have a debate but the Business Committee was called together this morning by the Deputy and the staff and we agreed the Order of Business.

Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I was about to say that the Deputy did not agree to it. He objected to it and we accept that, but everybody else unanimously agreed it.

Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Is there any need to have a Business Committee if this group wants to come in and tear it up every time we agree something? I want statements on this as well - we all do - but we have to go forward in some constructive manner.

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Happy new year.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (28 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to the Tipperary, Waterford and Carlow Kilkenny Garda divisions in the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50164/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (28 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 517. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the recent approval to provide €30 million of funding to protect the future of the post office network and the continuation of a five-day week postal delivery service, in particular regarding key performance indicators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50124/17]

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is misunderstanding us. We spoke earlier about vulture funds. Different amendments were discussed this evening about the €5.5 billion written off for our banking friends and the Minister did not want to listen to that either. This is rural Ireland that we are talking about. I want to pick the Minister up on the idea that he did not tell anyone. Someone told a...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Never.

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: An Escort mark I or mark II?

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I appeal to the Minister to reconsider the stamp duty increase. We debated the amendment on Committee Stage and withdrew it and are now putting it forward for debate in the Chamber. The shock was the surprise. There are rumours that a farming organisation was in the know about the measure on the Friday before budget day. I do not know if that is mere speculation but the Minister, Deputy...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Like Deputy Fitzmaurice, I understand the position very well. In the negotiations on the programme for Government, we in the Rural Independent Group lobbied for the further take-up of this very successful scheme in order to apply it to building. It was necessary at a time and we did not even have to give it to builders. We could have given it to people buying the houses in order to...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have a brief point in defence of my two erstwhile colleagues from Killarney, Deputies Danny and Michael Healy-Rae. They would not agree that Killarney is in the same league as Dublin. My daughter is dancing there this weekend and my wife is down there. She might report when they come back from the competitions on Monday. Deputy Boyd Barrett made a point about increased profits but with...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Briefly. I concur with Deputy McGrath. We must show encouragement. Being self-employed is not easy. One is responsible for everything. If one gets sick, one has nothing on which to fall back. Some moves have been made by the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, regarding PRSI, but the cohort of people to whom Deputy McGrath referred are mainly...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I will not labour the issue. I first have to declare an interest, in that I have a number of children.

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We are christening our fourth grandchild, thanks be to God, on Sunday. Most of my children have gone past the age in question, but it is important that I declare an interest. I have a memory of listening to a budget on radio. I had a vision of the then Taoiseach kneeling down in front of former Deputy Jim Kemmy over VAT on children's clothes or-----

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. It is an appropriate word at the moment. We will need good shoes for this weather if we are going to be out walking up to people's doors, seeing as how matters could spill out of control. Nonetheless, there should be a re-examination of the interpretation of the EU directive and the cut-off point at the age of ten. The prices can be enormous and vary considerably. Even a small...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister of State and Deputy Michael McGrath for dealing with this issue. I acknowledge what the Minister of State said about his own situation in Wexford and I am sure there are many such cases. I have a question about the mechanics of how and when, and the delay. In the case of St. Vincent's day care, a wonderful institution in Tipperary Town, it had literally bought a bus...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to be able to speak on this amendment and I thank Deputy Michael McGrath for putting it forward. There are many such situations in County Tipperary but I have one organisation in particular in mind that is in the process of buying a new bus, namely, the Tipperary day care centre. It is a wonderful facility with a voluntary board scrapping and scrounging to try to pay the...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I also welcome this move and, as Deputy Fitzmaurice has done, I compliment Deputy Michael McGrath, along with his colleagues, Deputies Cahill and McConalogue, for pursuing this. We had this amendment before the finance committee and debated it with both Ministers, and the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, said he would consider it. It now has been dealt with and that is very welcome. The Minister...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.