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- 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.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: You need insurance cover too.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is a hybrid.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is very clear that there is no planning.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is with the Deputy in the Chair.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: That is not true.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Why did the previous Minister, Mr. Hogan, ignore it and leave the country?
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Ross should ask the people of Tipperary.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is left down in Tipperary.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Government voted for it too.