Mattie McGrath: Blames Tariffs, Carbon Tax and NGO Waste

I too today am concerned about tariffs, with over 9,000 FDI jobs, including Mala, and indeed another number of thousands of them in New Gavin out the road from me. But like Deputy Nolan, I too am concerned about the tariffs that our own government have imposed on the ordinary people. The punitive carbon tax indeed, the nearly 48% tax on anyone wanting to build a home for themselves. I'm talking about building a home for themselves now, not looking for houses by the state. And the punitive measures that they have taken. The fact that we bailed out, and I called it at the time and voted against it, was a clean out when we had the crash. When the EU charged us 6%, almost 6% of interest, and when it was their own German and French bondholders were left off scot-free. We got money that time from the IMF for 2.9%, so they are now supposed to be into our friends. We then had the Fine Gael party in particular, and they tarnished at the time, meddling in the US election. Describing one of the candidates, who is now President Trump, as a gowl. And God knows, and then tweeting another morning, I saw a baseball hat with Vote 1 Pamela Harris, what I got this morning in the post. Such juvenile, and pedantic, and silly behaviour. And then some Bryce Brock sent him over today to meet the Secretary of State. I was over there, at the time the teaching was over, and I met many Irish Americans. And they were aghast at the way we had behaved. I met Pam Bondi, and I met AFK, and many other congressmen and people. And they were aghast, as were their voters in the Irish diaspora. So, here we are here, and we are stifling and crippling small business with bureaucracy on a daily basis. We have thanks to Deputy Nolan here, who found out a couple of years ago, with 36,000 NGOs, who are in front of government, behind government, tripping government, costing over 6 billion a year. As soon as we get a wake-up call with tariffs, and start to deal with the waste, and the opulence, and the naked, shameless way that these NGOs are milking our taxpayers. And also, the fact that there is so much waste in government, had been going on with successive governments. We have banned the trough. The farmers nearly put out of business with different issues, supposedly, from the EU. The time we looked after, in Africa, we looked after our small business, looked after our small and medium-sized farmers, not allowed the ranchers. We do not have any policy on wind, turbines, and also solar panels. The best of land has been gobbled up and used. So where are we going to do? We look after our own house first, and then we work with the American people. We work with the American administration, they have been good to us always, and we have those jobs here. So I believe we can negotiate with President Trump and his team, not be attacking him here like the parties are here. Sinn Féin would not even go to America. I am wondering whether they invited us at all this year. But that is a nice way to do business, abstention. They are used to abstention, as they say. So it is time that we have our house in order, look after ourselves, and keep the juvenile, as I said, tarnished to keep him at home, put him in the dressing room somewhere, or keep him there. Not have him go out on our behalf after the insults he put on President Trump when he was in capital in the election.