Results 21-40 of 72 for 5 million speaker:Mattie McGrath

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...previously on issues of big business, including the banks, and the small cohort of people who wield enormous influence, be it in the beef or wider food industry, or in spin. The Government invested €5 million in spin but only got a short spin. It spun out of control. Mr. Eddie Jordan was not driving it anyway. It crash-landed somewhere in a dustbin. The spin is now in the bin,...

Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Second Stage (3 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ..., like so many that have come our way from Europe, but it is not all bad. I refer in particular to the repeal and replacement of the criminal sanctions in section 3 that proposes to repeal section 5 of the Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2007, which sets out the penalties for conviction on indictment of Irish investment services in law. This is very...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ..., under the supervision and management of its wonderful matron, Ms Walsh, and her team. There have been no negotiations with private nursing homes. We are told that a new hospital would cost €5 million to €6 million and I want that examined. I want an independent arbitrator to evaluate what is wrong with St. Brigid's and how much it would cost to put it right in order...

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...they had paid their taxes and everything else. They made the donations to fund this wonderful project. For the past couple of years, to apply for EU tenders, small people must have a turnover of €5 million. No one has made millions in recent years. It just stinks to high heaven and is a lethargic approach adopted by the mechanisms of government. I am speaking about the...

National Drugs Strategy: Statements (29 Nov 2007)

Mattie McGrath: The annual report for 2007 of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime states that the total number of drug users worldwide is now estimated at some 200 million. This is a shocking figure, equivalent to approximately 5% of the global population aged between 15 and 64 years. We must constantly strive to ensure that the measures and policies in place to address the problem of drugs are...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...them and say live horse and get grass. Duirt bean liom gur duirt bean lei go fear i Tiobrad Árann with a póca ina léine aige. I do not know if the Minister understands that. There was a saying 40 or 50 years ago, "A woman told me that a woman told her that there is a man in Tipperary with a pocket in his shirt". This is the type of tomfoolery that is going on. Get on...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...the midlands, which is the place he talked about in respect of just transition. It is the most unjust transition and imposition that was ever dreamed of. It must be some of the 36,000 NGOs the Government has now, costing €5 billion a year, that come up with these lovely acronyms and lovely names, such as "just transition". It is the most unjust, regressive, punitive legislation....

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...there will be Oireachtas inquiry. This will be another investigation, maybe even a tribunal, while the Taoiseach rides off into a big job in Europe along with Big Phil the enforcer. At least €1.5 billion must be found in the national development plan in addition to the €800 million already allocated to the national broadband plan. The people who I represent in...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...of disease or from birth. Those newly disabled persons will enter a world of discrimination and human rights abuses. The budget yesterday showed scant regard for disabled citizens' gross inequality. 5 euro on benefits will not 'fix' the medical, financial, employment deprivation and discrimination, [€5 is welcome, but what will it get one?] experienced by large swathes of...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...be made profitable and meaningful to get up and go to work. One has to get a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. That is how it has to be. There are many areas to discuss. We mentioned the 1.8 million people who are now working. They are paying way more tax - I believe it is 60% more tax - than 2.5 million people were paying some time ago. The whole thing has shifted and must be...

Covid-19 (Mental Health): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...see this, it is not necessary. Greed is everywhere. What we want now is help and support for our people as a nation. We need to have more funding put into mental health. Our spending is only at 5% and 6% where other European countries are at 12%. Yesterday a €400 million budget that we did not spend last year was allowed be held onto this year. It is shocking to see the...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...executive officer, CEO, of the council - they are not called county managers any more - wanted to close that as well. He gave us a lucky-bag chain of office, while we have a noble chain, worth €50,000, that is locked away in a vault. It is an insult to the town of Clonmel. That is what we have and a lucky-bag would be better. We are in and out to - I was going to say...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...with wastage and how money announced for various sectors does not percolate down to the ordinary person on the street. The announcement of the new Covid restrictions support scheme of up to €5,000 per week for businesses impacted by level 3 or higher Covid-19 restrictions is welcome. It is certainly needed by the industry. Budget 2021 also provides a support scheme of...

Post-European Council: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...of the recent pre-Council statements, I raised the challenges that would emerge to Ireland's farming and agriculture sector in the context of the EU commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. I did so while highlighting the findings of the European Commission Joint Research Centre report which found that Ireland was the most carbon-efficient producer in the European Union per unit...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak on this Bill which seeks to give effect to the taxation changes announced on budget day. The Bill also provides for the budget day announcements of a reduction to 4.5% in the 4.75% rate of universal social charge, USC, and an increase in the ceiling at which the 2% rate of USC is payable. We know from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, that income tax,...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...€300,000 will pay €80,000 more over the course of 30 years than their European counterparts. Why is that? This budget will cripple ordinary people. Na daoine aosta got nothing, not even €5 in their pensions. The ordinary working man agus mná ag obair i gcónaí who, in the words of the Tánaiste, get up go luath ar maidin have been ignored. The...

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...on disability but will the planned 21,000 housing units include appropriate accommodation for over 1,000 people with disabilities? I do not believe half of them will even be built. Where is the €30 million fund sought to improve the chronic situation for housing adaptation grants that we all need in our constituencies on a daily basis? Will the €497 million increase in...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: ...after, or, as Deputy Bannon would say, the men of the big houses with the dapper little lines running up the avenues to them. I know what they are looking after when there is a write-down of €119 million for Siteserv. The whole process of the sale of Siteserv was despicable. The shareholders got €5 million for a thing that was bankrupt. We would not read it in a...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...of the capital investment plan, South Tipperary General Hospital, which was formerly known as St. Joseph's - I still affectionately call it St. Joseph's although somebody decided to change it - received €3.2 million for the provision of a new outpatient clinic. The total investment in South Tipperary General Hospital amounts to just under €50 million but again this has been...

Situation in Syria: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...people over the course of recent years has caused untold misery. The Syrian civil war is now in its sixth year. It has been reported that more than 400,000 people have died, with more than 11 million people displaced from their homes, including 5 million registered refugees. It is an appalling crisis by any standard. The news agency Catholic World Report has said that civilian...