Results 14,481-14,500 of 20,735 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: We know what is coming down the track.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is incompetence.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Double Dutch.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: They will take a holiday in Mayo.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Religious Persecution (25 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 414. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that religious persecution is on the agenda for the next United Nations Human Rights Council meeting; if Ireland will co-sponsor the regular resolution on freedom of religion or belief tabled by the EU for the next UN session in March 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45234/14]
- Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am a little but it is all very relevant and connected to small business people. They are at their wits end. They are trying to keep the doors open. People knock on their doors and ask them to sponsor them at Christmas and to support the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and they do. They support anything that happens in the local community, as the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, knows....
- Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted and privileged to be able to speak about this Bill. I compliment Deputy John McGuinness from the bottom of my heart on the research and work he has put into it. When one reads the Bill and listens to the Deputy speak, it is clear that he knows business and understands what makes it tick. I am sure he will not be afraid to admit that successive Governments, including the last...
- Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. Earlier this year I debated the issues involved at the Bulmers plant in Clonmel with the Minister of State's colleague, the former Minister of State with responsibility for small business, Deputy John Perry. I am not blaming either of them for the reply I received which was just not credible. It was written by civil servants and some research may have gone into it, but we did not get...
- Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is the worst pressure of all. Every letter one receives from Revenue, regardless of what it is for, includes a threat of imprisonment at the bottom.
- Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: A businessman who came to my clinic last week is owed €9,500 in VAT, but he cannot get it. He has been waiting and waiting, although he has been talking and ringing and doing everything else. This sole trader used to employ two people, but he had to let them go because his cashflow dried up. One might think this is not a great deal of money, but it is to him. When he owed Revenue...
- Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Who wrote that? We do not believe it.
- Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Shame.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: They should be flushed down the toilet.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak on this important issue. One might have said the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, was Santa Claus arrived five weeks early to the Chamber yesterday, giving away money here and there while totally undermining the whole system that was supposed to run under Irish Water. The capped charge will be €160 for a single-adult household and €260 for a household of...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: That is good and I am sure it will make it a big difference. I expect he will have the sewerage scheme staff in place in the morning. In Clonmel and other towns there have been sewerage problems for years. I salute the council workers who went out regularly to free blockages where sewers were going through people's private property. Now Irish Water will not allow those workers to go...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I do read my e-mails. I was not told about last week's meeting either. I have in my hand not a grenade but a water meter of the model that is being installed throughout the county. In Mullinahone, otherwise known as Charles Kickham country - if one was never in Mullinahone, one has never travelled - 500 of these meters were fitted last year by GMC-Sierra Limited, the same company that is...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: My colleague on my left will mind it for me. He knows what it is. I am just making the point that the Government will not listen. I have tabled two parliamentary questions and I have been told untruths and given misleading information that there were no meters in the boxes. While I have not counted them, there are around 600 of them. We will see what happens when I visit the location with...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Around the houses.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Plan X.