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- 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-----
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I have been asked a question.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I have been asked to withdraw something. If our good friends, na hAirí - the Minister and Minister of State - visited the courts any day of the week, they would see the justice being meted out to the ordinary people. It is there for anybody to see. I have no intention of withdrawing my remark. I did not impugn all the members of the Judiciary. I am saying that certain members are...
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I have no intention of withdrawing the remark. I said certain members of the Judiciary are hearing cases when their family members or whatever are seriously in hock to the banks involved in those cases. How could that be fair or right?
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I did not-----
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: If the learned gentlemen went down the courts any day of the week, they would know what I am talking about, bearing in mind the circumstances of the decent family from Wexford.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: We cannot progress because we have cartels and cabals.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I cannot because I have been------
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: What I am saying is that there is a general situation affecting unfortunate people every day of the week. I am not mentioning anyone in person. What I describe is happening time and again. Where is the regulation?
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Mattie McGrath: If the Minister wanted to go down with his constituents - I have been in Wexford a number of times-----