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- Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak on the Bill. The Financial Action Task Force recommendations include more transparency on ownership and control of companies, trusts and other legal persons; the clarification of rules on customer due diligence to ensure better knowledge of customers and better understanding of their business; the expansion of provisions dealing with politically exposed persons to cover...
- Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: -----but nothing has been done. We have no meaningful accountability from senior politicians, senior officials, regulators, Central Bank governors and bank chairman. What we did was to increase their wages and bend or broke the rules to allow this despite the promises made. Consider how the staff of the former Anglo Irish Bank and the IBRC have been treated. They are badly needed to help...
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They did.
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I also wish to raise an important issue. I compliment the Ceann Comhairle on his remarks on Private Members' Bills. I have resubmitted one. The Minister for Justice and Equality promised that he would introduce legislation to address thefts of scrap and precious metals. It is happening wholesale, but nothing has been done. Under the forestry Bill, will the Government please desist from...
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, but this is on promised legislation.
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I have, but I received no answer.
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Will the Government sell the rights?
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They will not be introduced before the local elections.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: We should give the Tánaiste a medal.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: That is because the Government threatened a 7% pay cut.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: And the Government compromises.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (18 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current position with the Burncourt Regional Water Treatment System in South Tipperary; if the residents of this area who are subjected to using bottled water due to the condition of the water will be exempt from water charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18125/13]
- Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I too am delighted to contribute to the debate on the Bill. I compliment Deputy Ó Caoláin on his persistence in championing the cause of those victims who fought long and hard to see this day dawn. It is a pity that so many previous Governments, Members of the Oireachtas and the HSE ignored this long-standing problem. It is sad that so many of the victims have gone to their...
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: We are on a roll here because previous speakers all received positive replies. I am concerned with regard to the negative impact the local government Bill is going to have on local development companies. Deputy O'Dea inquired about county enterprise boards. I am of the view that it is very retrograde step to take these out of communities and force them into local authorities. What is the...
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It will be an awfully long session altogether.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Big Phil was not going to wait for that.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: And you wanted more.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Divide and conquer.
- Defence Forces (Second World War Amnesty and Immunity) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am coming back to the debate but it is all relative to the times we are in. Those soldiers who deserted were put into penury. Today, we have seen - and the Acting Chairman may try to stop me again - the Croke Park agreement being rejected. Why would it not be, however, because of the misery we are visiting on our people?
- Defence Forces (Second World War Amnesty and Immunity) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I am trying to stick to the debate. As I said, I believe this is a German attack on our nation but this time with money. We had to save the banks to save the euro and I remember discussing it with the former Minister for Finance, the late Brian Lenihan, at the time. To have come home that night and left the deal on the table, they would have been on the next plane here after us and we...