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- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to leave time for my colleague.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am nearly finished. Noiméid amháin má's é do thoil é. I am glad that one or two more Government Members have arrived. The Minister should be aware that the public is watching this debate and with no disrespect to him, how does he intend to get blood out of a stone? They do not have it. I have customers who could not pay me and I never got it but simply was...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Thank Santa Claus.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak on Section 1 of the Bill but I am very disappointed that the Minister is guillotining this measure. When the Minister was on the opposition benches, he was constantly objecting to the guillotine. He made a big play that when he would be in Government it would not happen. We all understand that the guillotine has to be used occasionally but this is outrageous. Last...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The angry man of the previous Dáil.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: They will not forget Deputy Bannon either.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Bannon himself is a reject.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: What about the big farmers up the tree-lined avenues?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Bring in the sheriff.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Revenue Commissioners' sheriff.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I did not know Deputy Bannon did fear.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The big houses and small farmers.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: They are now being robbed for the lead.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The landed gentry.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Theft is illegal.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, big boot tactics.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach could have fooled us.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance if the proposed fuel rebate scheme for road hauliers will apply to agricultural contractors; if he will consider a proposal to extend the scheme to agricultural contractors; if his attention has been drawn to an assessment that was carried out on the benefits of such scheme and if this assessment included the agricultural sector; and if he will make a statement...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons a fuel rebate scheme for road hauliers cannot be introduced on 1 January 2013; if he is concerned that jobs and businesses may be lost in the sector due to the late introduction of the scheme; if he has considered introducing legislation to bring this into operation on 1 January 2013; the reasons he did not include the agricultural industry and farm...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (18 Dec 2012)
Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance if the unfinished housing estates that were exempt from the household charge will be exempt from the new local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56726/12]