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- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Tá nóiméid amháin fágtha.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister did not hear me.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, I said, "Would the Revenue be interfered with by the enforcers?" That is what I said. It is a different question.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It does not.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: No.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I know they do not.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: When one reads the headlines in the newspaper, one would wonder.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. The Minister is dropping them into it.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They will not have a shirt after this. They will be bareback.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They will get rid of that too so.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Government is getting rid of all the town councils.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I will comment on the section and the Bill in general. It is fine for the Minister, Deputy Noonan, to wax lyrical about the Dodder and the amendments tabled by Opposition Deputies. We all appreciate his good humour and can go back to when he was a Minister 20 years ago to recall "Scrap Saturday" and the humour and sarcasm in that. I respect what the Minister is trying to do but I do not...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: There are 63 amendments to be discussed in such a short time, which is extremely unfair. On the night this tax was mooted in the budget, where was the Minister, Big Phil the enforcer, but in Doha at some kind of a world conference. That is how little he perceives the trauma being experienced by people. The Minister mentioned houses flooded by the Dodder but there are hundreds of houses...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: People whose houses are affected by radon have not been recognised. I welcome the consideration given by the Minister to the voluntary housing sector, etc. but the Bill is draconian nevertheless. Giving the Revenue Commissioners power to enter people's homes is a retrograde step. I have stated in other debates that I am self-employed and I am used to dealing with the Revenue Commissioners...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Of course. I always call him the Minister. He is the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government but he was in Doha when we discussed the matter in the budget. That is how much he cared about the ordinary people and the home owners in a perilous position. The Taoiseach did not help this morning when Deputy Boyd Barrett tried to raise the issue. He scoffed, laughed, joked...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: People are making an effort to work their way out of problems and they are willing to pay. Nevertheless, they cannot take this as they will be driven completely to penury. The Revenue Commissioners and banks will be after these people, along with sheriffs and illegal bandits recovering debts. Those bandits are not subject to any Garda clearance. If a person is to work in a crèche or...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: We are certainly moving away from it and I am very sorry for that. I beg your indulgence.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach did not help today, which is a pity. Is mór an trua é. The public are watching and it is a shame to see a line of Ministers scoffing and laughing at this. The scoffing will be on the other side of their faces soon enough. They will get the first taste of that when they head to the plains of Meath.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister would take it off him.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Mattie McGrath: All the buses are gone.