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Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: And since then in May, when other issues occurred.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: The promissory notes were a given.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: 99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons for the decline in tourist visitors from the UK between April and June of this year; and the steps he is taking to address this decline. [40879/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: The Gathering Expenditure (1 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost of The Gathering to date. [40880/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Expenditure (2 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent by institution, in each year since 2008, on rebranding or brand repositioning for each university and institute of technology here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41243/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Transaction Tax: Discussion with Department of Finance (2 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I thank our guests for attending and I apologise for my late arrival. I only had the opportunity to glance at the presentation so I am already on the back foot. I thank the Chairman for his indulgence and forbearance. Have Ireland's senior and technically conversant leaders in this area had an opportunity to engage in conversations with their counterparts from other member states in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Transaction Tax: Discussion with Department of Finance (2 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I am doing so. I refer in this regard to the rehypothecation of financial securities. Are our guests aware that rehypothecation is happening four, five and six times and that the institutions dealing with these financial assets do not have a clue with regard to their liabilities? There are multiples of hundreds of billions involved here. This matter is not discussed and that gives rise to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Transaction Tax: Discussion with Department of Finance (2 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Do our guests find my questions or my way of speaking off-putting? They can be honest. The Chair finds me off-putting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Transaction Tax: Discussion with Department of Finance (2 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: How does Ms McVeigh respond to the ideas and suggestions I am putting forward? What is the position of the Minister, for example? Any Minister might feel out of his or her depth when dealing with matters of this nature. That is fair enough. Let us encourage people to speak plain English to each other in order that we might develop frameworks and designs and identify both our purposes and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Transaction Tax: Discussion with Department of Finance (2 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I have a final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Transaction Tax: Discussion with Department of Finance (2 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: England should be challenged-----

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (3 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason bank debt negotiated restructuring or bank debt negotiated write off was never sought or requested by the Government from the ECB, the euro system authorities and the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41486/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Central Bank Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered initiating judicial review proceedings at the European Court of Justice, under Statute Article 35.1 of the ECB Statute, insisting a full discovery of all the communications between Jean Claude Trichet, his executive directors and the German Government and the Central Bank and records of the ECB contacts, if there were any, with holders...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (3 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the bodies or persons with whom his Department has had contact in relation to the formation of economic programme 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41775/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Contracts (3 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has had discussions regarding to the changing of existing academic contracts in order to impose a mandatory contract hours element and if so, with whom; if this will distinguish between the university and the institute of technology sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41693/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I have been struck by the two previous contributions and would like to join them together. I ask the Taoiseach to arrange a plenary session of his Cabinet every 21 days to examine in a comprehensive manner the overall situation that obtains. Two weeks ago, Mr. Sebastian Barnes of the Fiscal Advisory Council, in describing Ireland's sovereign or national debt position as a proportion of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I ask the Taoiseach to convene a plenary Cabinet session to discuss these matters and to be advised, in an evidential way, about what is taking place at these levels. The Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, demonstrated that the banks do not have experienced visitation audit or inspection teams. If they had, we would know better what is going on in the banks but we do...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: There was no negotiation on that; it had to happen for us even to reach the last drawdowns of the assistance programme. There has been talk about us exiting the programme as if it is a positive step we will take. It is not. The people need to know that means we are just down to the last drawdowns - we are down on empty now on the loans. They have left us on empty and it is not right. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Does the Taoiseach realise that the Germans did not even know in January 2012 that the €75 billion of private sector loan losses on the Irish people would have equated in a German scale to €1.2 trillion in misplaced bank losses on the German people? The reality is that its banks are very fragile at the moment. For some of them their gearing is 50 times; Lehman Brothers was...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: We saved Europe and we have got sweet damn all from Europe for it.