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| Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage [Continued]
30/04/2013 12:13:05
Deputy Mattie McGrath: As a small businessman of 32 years and sole trader who transferred to a company a year ago, I too welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I am also involved in a number of companies limited by guarantee, which are a different animal altogether.
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| Non-Use of Motor Vehicles Bill 2013: Second Stage [Continued]
30/04/2013 12:11:27
Deputy Mattie McGrath: I am delighted the Acting Chairman, Deputy Tom Hayes, is in the Chair to give me an easy run when I am speaking. He is a fellow Tipperary man. It will not be very hard at all and I will try to be as compliant as possible seeing that we have present the more polite Minister in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. I have said this to him personally and privately. In saying that, I am not saying anything bad about the Minister, Big Phil. I refer to the more civil of the two. When there is trouble, the Minister of State is the one who will be on the front line. He looks after the House when the Minister is missing.
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| Criminal Justice [Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing] [Amendment] Bill 2013: Second Stage [Res
23/04/2013 15:49:28
Deputy Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak on the Bill. The Financial Action Task Force recommendations include more transparency on ownership and control of companies, trusts and other legal persons; the clarification of rules on customer due diligence to ensure better knowledge of customers and better understanding of their business; the expansion of provisions dealing with politically exposed persons to cover national and international organisations; including tax offences as a predicate offence to money laundering; and more effective international co-operation. Deputy Ross mentioned flowery and vague language which is difficult to understand. Surely these recommendations are prerequisites and we should already be co-operating.
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| Defence Forces [Second World War Amnesty and Immunity] Bill 2012: Second Stage
18/04/2013 09:17:11
Deputy Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to be able to speak on the Defence Forces [Second World War Amnesty and Immunity] Bill 2012. It is easy to be wise in hindsight and we all learn from the mistakes of the past. We also have a better understanding now of the terrible tough economic times for those from all walks of life. The Bill provides for the granting of an amnesty and immunity from prosecution where appropriate to members of the Irish Defence Forces who fought on the Allied side and were found guilty of desertion by military tribunal or dismissed en masse by the Emergency Powers Order [No. 362] 1945. The amnesty is an acknowledgement that the treatment received in consequence of desertion is now considered to have been unduly harsh and acceptance that the acts occurred during the special circumstances of the Second World War. It is an apology for the treatment and exoneration in respect of these acts. The Bill explicitly limits State liability and does not contain compensation. The amnesty does not constitute a presidential pardon under Article 13 of the Constitution. I have no problem with any of this and many of the people involved have no wish to receive compensation. As other speakers stated, they and their families wish to have the stigma removed
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| Leaders' Questions
03/04/2013 15:36:46
Deputy Mattie McGrath: I wish to continue in the same vein because the people are bewildered and are becoming more so by the hour. After all of the Government's bluster, reports and examinations, eight times fewer people will be exempt from the property tax this year. I can only speak for south Tipperary, where none of the unfinished estates has been completed. We did not get enough money from the Government even to put up hoardings around them to make them safe. This is a total farce.
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