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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: The banks-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: I thank Mr. Bertók for sharing his experience and insights in this area. It is the equivalent in the modern context of what people referred to years ago as the unfamiliarity of the jungle. One needs a guide. Businesses that seek to develop goods and services want to ensure they can be produced and distributed in as certain a territory as they can arrange. Politicians and the public...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (18 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: I support the remarks made by other Deputies but on a practical note, it is only a short space of time to the 1916 centenary celebrations. If the people who sacrificed their lives could see O'Connell Street now and the facades of the businesses and the users or occupiers of those businesses, they would not believe what they had sacrificed their lives for. There is an air of menace at...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (18 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: The problem is the users of the street, the occupations----

Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: I am sorry to interrupt, but I must ask the Minister to move that the Bill be now read a Second Time.

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: Thank you, Minister, I am sorry about that.

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: I just have to do my job.

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: During the Minister's speech he mentioned he would be delighted to share time with anybody from this side of the House. There appears to be nobody, but I will take the opportunity to mention a note on the speaking time clock. I remind Deputies that the new speaking time clocks are being used today and can be seen on the railings above. They are intended to assist Deputies in keeping to the...

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: I thank the Deputy for his gracious apology.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (18 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: 42. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures he is taking to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38411/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (18 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: 60. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the discussions his Department has held with Dublin City Council regarding the commemoration of the events of Easter 1916; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38413/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (18 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: 411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to cut funding for fee-paying schools in Budget 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38614/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (18 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: 1428. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to invest in health services based in the community, with a range of multi disciplinary staff offering a choice of treatment options, easy access to mental health support from one's GP; access to talking therapies; helping persons with a mental health difficulty to get into and maintain employment and secure accommodation; and if he will make a...

Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: Will the Tánaiste ask the Government Chief Whip and the deputy Chief Whip from the Labour Party to reconsider this fair and democratic motion brought forward yesterday and approve it at an early date?

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: I thank Deputy Dooley. It can be shown very simply that the financial crisis and the mortgage and SME crisis that came out of it were caused by six years of dereliction of duty by the banking sector. It is mathematically provable the asset price bubble could only have happened with the credit bubble organised by the banking system, and two thirds of the price bubble is on account of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services Provision (19 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: 163. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans on a matter (details supplied) regarding adoptions from Russia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38892/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Detention Centres (19 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: 35. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she intends to legislate for the amalgamation of children detention schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38838/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (24 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: I have been a Member of the Oireachtas for two and a half years.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (24 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: I am just offering a little preamble. Deputy Martin has been here for 24 years, while the Taoiseach has been a Member for almost 40 years. Considering the obstacles and the limitations which apply and the nature of the Whip system, I am of the view that the Seanad has done a very good job in the time I have been here. Many amendments to legislation have been made in the Upper House, which...