Results 41-60 of 71 for 5 million speaker:Mattie McGrath

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: .... I reserve some criticism also for Deputy O'Dea and his colleagues. They have provided the supply and confidence arrangement. They should have started somewhere. Charities got a mere €5 million. The Minister must start somewhere in order to rectify the situation. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, referred to the system being "bonkers". Successive Governments -...

Pre-European Council: Statements (18 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...the money to do it. We can give all the reports back to the councils and blame the county councils. They say they do not have the money that the Government says it gave them. There is talk of so many millions and then the figure is reported and changed. However, I suppose the Brexit issue will most immediately impact us in the short to medium term. What is becoming ever clearer is...

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...tax. 10 o’clock It was said that we should table motions to keep the property tax that is paid in Tipperary in Tipperary and keep the equalisation fund. The statistics demonstrate that over 50% of Ireland's GDP, which is the total value of everything produced in this country, is generated in Dublin. This is despite the fact that an estimated 60% of the population live outside...

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...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...said, it is not a fair deal at all. It is a pretty poor deal. The current financial assessment is not progressive. The contribution to the cost of long-term care is the same for a farm worth €500,000 as it is for a farm worth €5 million. We are not talking about those kinds of farms or businesses. We are talking about ordinary small people. The assessment is...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...together. It is very important that all views be heard. It is very timely that we have this debate on the Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016. The Finance Act 2015 introduced a knowledge development box, KDB. One would think it was the KGB when listening to Deputy Boyd Barrett. He is not listening now. Tá sé ag caint leis an Acting Chairman....

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...

Courts (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ..., as the Minister of State would know, given that he comes from a rural constituency. This has vastly changed and we do not know where people reside. It is very difficult. During the past 15 months, batches of summonses were not delivered. The figures were quoted by others. It is amazing to see. How can one area be so good? The PULSE system is not up to standard. The severe lack of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...with the homeless crisis - we could use the voluntary sector if it is needed - and revitalising the towns. Towns would be living. People would be there at night and the towns would not become ghost towns at 6.05 p.m. after the shops close and everybody has gone home. It did not happen and there is no sign of it. Where has the imagination gone? Where is the vision to do this and deal...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...next year, which I welcome, because, as Deputy Healy-Rae said earlier, the half miles and the roads on Slievenamon, the Galtee Mountains or the Knockmealdown Mountains are as important as the M50. People living on them work and pay taxes and rates and they are entitled to have their local roads maintained as well as roads are elsewhere. All the money cannot be spent around Dublin. We...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...sheep and the innocent lambs were there with baby Jesus when he was born so many centuries ago. We should get our fundamentals right there also. I hope the money will be paid very shortly. The additional 500 rural social scheme participants are most welcome. We need to see them on the ground. We do not need red tape. There is a great deal of work to be done in communities which the...

Insurance Costs: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...cliffs but walking on flat surfaces. If one falls, surely there is some onus on oneself to take care. Any small business which wishes to work for a local authority must have public liability cover of €6.9 million, as well as large cover for employer liability. That is an exorbitant amount of money for a business with the cost of it going up drastically. Last week 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...

Topical Issue Debate: Funding for ACCORD (14 May 2015)

Mattie McGrath: ...well and doing some wonderful work. This is true of other agencies as well. However, to announce a cut in the budget at this time, when the Minister said last October that he was giving it €26 million extra suggests there is something wrong with the Minister. Is he mixed up or confused? Does the Minister have any word at all? Some €26 million extra was announced, but...

Topical Issue Debate: Funding for ACCORD (14 May 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the Minister. Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, informed ACCORD, the Catholic Marriage and Preparation Counselling Service, that €378,000 was being withdrawn from its funding for 2015. Bizarrely, the Tusla letter informed ACCORD that its decision to cut the funding is retrospective and took effect from 1 January 2015, notwithstanding that the letter is dated 7 May 2015....

Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Mattie McGrath: ...the Regulation of Lobbying Bill what will the Government do to reign in the outrageous lobbying and funding by Atlantic Philanthropies of groups such as the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, €7 million, Amnesty International Ireland, €5 million-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Mattie McGrath: ...back to caves or elsewhere, or emigrated to get jobs in Canada. What happened? I said it was like Joe Duffy's "Fiver Friday" had come to Clonmel. The former Minister dropped the amount to €5. I passed a basket around here for the fivers, as Deputies might remember. The entire thing dropped off the agenda. Several people in the business made applications - I did not - to...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...down. This Government obtained its mandate from the people on false promises. It should be ashamed. This is the reason for its low rating in the polls. This Bill also provides for the abolition of the €9.50 per month telephone allowance. Community Alert, Neighbourhood Watch, the Department of Social Protection and other Departments have invested hugely in the installation of...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...nothing will ever come out of it. It is simple enough to charge people with fraud - naked, basic fraud. I am a small businessman and I know that if financial returns are misstated by any amount of money, be it €1 or €5 million, and I mislead the accountant who signs off on the basis of the figures I supply him-----