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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Expenditure (25 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: 24. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in the direct provision system; the total cost to the Exchequer of the current system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39608/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: The Boston Consulting Group, Barclays Capital and BlackRock International got the first prudential capital assessment review 100% wrong.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (26 Sep 2013)

Peter Mathews: 40. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the operation of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39926/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Appointments to State Boards (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: The Deputy should complete the question, please.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: It is in Dáil Éireann.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I also agree with Deputy Kevin Humphreys on the publication of these reviews. What I have witnessed in the past half an hour is sad. This is Dáil Éireann. I invite the Taoiseach to listen and harness the passion and energy of Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett’s ideas. John Perkins, the lead economist in Chas. T. Main consultants from the 1970s to the 1990s, the most powerful...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: -----and was rightly castigated by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in The Daily Telegraph.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: He does.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I was placed here.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: They are not giving out to the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: The Deputies are not giving out to the Taoiseach. He is not listening.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I have known the Taoiseach for an equally long time.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: We are trying to serve the people.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: No. 35 on page 1436 of the Order Paper is a motion tabled by the Minister for Finance, with four amendments tabled by Deputies of the House. It was put on the Order Paper on 12 February, debated on 13 and 14 February and adjourned to be resumed. It has not been called since. Is it possible for this debate to be resumed on the basis that there has been a change in circumstances of the...

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: This is a most pressing issue. Last week the Fiscal Advisory Council spoke about the national debt being at 122% of GDP, which put it in third place after Greece and Italy. The paper ignored the fact that private household debt and SME or non-financial corporate debt taken together with national debt puts Ireland in the worst position in the OECD.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: This is crucial. In the meantime, the Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill, which had to go through the Seanad and the Dáil to be brought to the people, has passed. It was brought in under a very strict Whip system so that Deputies and Senators who advocated the retention of the Seanad voted against their own debate. Another Bill passed...

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: It has not been resumed and is unresolved.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: They are not over. The consequences are not over.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: All inconclusive and open questions.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: We should have been speaking about it for seven months.