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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-----

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

Mattie McGrath: I too want to lend my voice of support to amendment No. 42 and a number of similar amendments. However, it all seems to be a waste of time and energy. As I said last night, although I hate being repetitive, Deputy Boyd Barrett is right about how Joe Bloggs and Mary Public would react if they knew what was going on with the cartels and the regulators who are in bed with them. We have...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Michael Creed, is not here. Concerns are increasing about the Mercosur deal and the intention of the European Commission to increase the offer being made to the four countries which are objecting, including Paraguay. The European Commission had been offered 120,000 tonnes of beef imports, which would come into Ireland and other...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The confidence supply seems to be very confident. Maybe my Fianna Fáil colleagues are over-confident that the Government is going to do what it says on the tin. Why do we need a review or report? Why has it not been done already? Is the permanent government totally in charge that it would not let it do it? The sooner that changes the better. The Minister can be ag gáire if he...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I support this important amendment. Our flagship industry is the agricultural economy. I am now old enough to remember a number of recessions and each time it was the farming sector that took us through. When the farmers are doing well, they spend money locally. They spend it with local suppliers and on local equipment. We cannot just pay lip service to the problem of income volatility...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, support this reasonable amendment on real estate investment trusts and Irish real estate funds or, to use their acronyms, REITs and IREFs. The Government and its predecessors appear set on preserving the status quoand supporting the rich and famous at the expense of ordinary citizens. This beggars belief after all we have been through and the rape and plunder visited on us by the...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I did not mention any names.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Mercenaries deserve to be identified and put out of action as opposed to being embraced by Governments and the Civil Service. They led the attack on our people. Deputy Fitzmaurice is right; it is as bad as what the Black and Tans did and many lives have been wrecked. Many people have taken their lives and many families are distraught, not to mention all the homeless people to whom we pay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have always respected any guests who have appeared before us and have waited until they were finished to make statements at different times. If the guest is waiting and wants to go, because I have quite a detailed contribution to make, I think we are rushing this. We are only going to give it 30 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, but five minutes is not enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Can I make this point again? They are waiting just to jump at us. We did not utter a syllable when others wanted to speak, which is the way it should be.