Results 10,281-10,300 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- 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.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I too am appalled that the Government will not act. The old saying about laughing all the way to the bank is appropriate. The bankers are laughing all the way to the bank, inside the bank and all over the bank. They are literary piddling all over the people. Why not, since they get aplomb from the Government? Deputy Burton mentioned different cuts and what can be done for the...
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy is being goaded by the Minister of State.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: One cannot bring-----
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am sorry.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Could I clarify that I did not mention any specific person but if anyone-----
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I do not withdraw that charge. I do not include all members of the Judiciary but I said that in certain cases, certain eminent judges who themselves or their families were in major hock or had major borrowings, some of which were written off, presided over cases on which they should not have been involved.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: That is fine. I am sorry if I delayed the House but I am here to represent the public.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Some of them.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: My former-----