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- Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: This budget has been punitive for farmers. Whatever Deputy Tom Hayes says, it applies more to small farmers. PRSI, farm assist and this VAT measure make it very serious. The agriculture industry has been suffering over the past year. Although it had a lift in the past two years, the weather was bad over the summer and is bad again now. The sum of €21 million is a lot to take from...
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I did and we can all learn from our mistakes.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am also supporting the farmers in Wexford. How will we encourage communities, such as a school or a family, to do something for the environment? The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government might be in Doha, or wherever he is-----
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: -----but people voted with their pockets and bought cars with low emissions. I need a big car because I have a big family but the breach of trust is not fair.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I cannot believe the vehicle registration measure. I am being magnanimous in that I do not know if Richie Ryan is late or if he is still alive. I do not want to be mean to him. The budget of Richie Ruin contained a terrible thing but now the Government is taxing the hearse. Will it tax the shroud or the habit next? I cannot believe the sneaky things that are included here.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: It is punitive in the extreme. The Government has increased the tax on the hearse, the vehicle that will bury us all when we are deceased. Richie Ryan did not do that.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am not mixed up. The habit and the shroud are not safe.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: It is in the book.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: What about the bicycle?
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Of course.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to be able to speak on the budget, but to stray from that topic I want to extend my congratulations to the Tánaiste on his recent visit to Clonmel to remember the founding of a decent party and I am delighted it went off peacefully. I must question the people who protested at the event and the cost of this to the State. We must be able to cherish our heritage and...
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Government could have changed it.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Many of them were fiddled.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Where is he?
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: What about the one in Moneygall?
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister, Deputy Reilly, has one in Moneygall.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister has gone very quiet now.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government?
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Shame.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister is leaving the bad news to the ladies.