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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Academic Publications (10 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of articles published, broken down by institution and year for each institute of technology and university for the year 2011 and 2012, where each article is published in a journal whose publisher appears on Beall's list of predatory open access (details supplied); the fees paid for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Child Sex Offenders (Information And Monitoring) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I thank Deputy Naughten for introducing this Bill. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, for attending the House for this debate. I am sorry to hear that the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, cannot be here because there is a Cabinet meeting. That is one of the drawbacks of the way we try to tackle a large volume of work and the mechanics of getting it done. ...

Child Sex Offenders (Information And Monitoring) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Those are my few thoughts on what is a good Bill which the Government should support.

Child Sex Offenders (Information And Monitoring) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I know the Minister of State did not write his speech.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I agree this is all about revenue raising.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Tobacco is a drug. The people who get into the illicit drug trade are in the illicit tobacco trade. Cigarettes do not come in with the clouds and rain on the people; they are brought here in shipping containers. Shipowners and shipping agents are the people who should be forced, through really punitive fines and penalties, of €500,000 or €1 million, to police what is shipped...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I am sharing life stories.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 3: Income Tax; No. 4: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Will the Minister explain in simple and understandable terms what the anti-avoidance measure in Financial Resolution No. 4 amounts to? Manufacturing businesses, by definition, are risky. They often require large investments in plant and machinery, which are not so bankable. From a businessman’s or businesswoman’s point of view, he or she may need the backing of high-earning...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 3: Income Tax; No. 4: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: That is the point, Minister. It reduces the leasing charge.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 3: Income Tax; No. 4: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Rather than into plant and machinery?

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 3: Income Tax; No. 4: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: That is because we are in a recession.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 3: Income Tax; No. 4: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Capital is always passive.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: The temptation to the Government is to raise €94 million. When I heard the word "gold-plated", I said: "Be careful here, we are in the territory of magicians." We use illusions. That is how magicians work. One does not see how they do the tricks but one gets the feeling that one understands them and one believes what one sees, which is not always the truth. Let us look at the...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: We were told there would be no increase in income tax. What have I just calculated? That is an increase in income tax. It is not in the headline rate of 41% or USC, but it is income tax. It must be paid out of income and, therefore, it is a tax on income, or else one does not have medical insurance. That is the truth about that. I was asked what happened here today and I said, "It is a...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: There are many issues that arise. The Minister started off, and stayed, on Ireland's corporate tax. The Minister stated it had three elements, "rate, reputation and regime". What about reality? Deputy Boyd Barrett pointed out correctly that, according to the last year available from the Revenue Commissioners, €70 billion of corporate profits was taxed at €4 billion, that is,...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 7: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: The budget booklet from the Department of Finance states as follows:The rate of retention tax that applies to deposit interest, together with the rates of exit tax that apply to life assurance policies and investment funds, is being increased and will now be 41% whether payments are made annually or more frequently (previously 33%) or are made less frequently than annually (previously 36%)....

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 7: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: And life assurance policies.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Haddington Road Agreement Implementation (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions his Department has had with all bodies in relation to efficiency contracts (details supplied) for academic institutions under the Haddington Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43073/13]

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: In four minutes, it is hard to know where to begin. Yesterday, our budget day, the German Finance Minister, Mr. Wolfgang Schäuble, had, according to The Irish Times, the temerity to say on the fringes of an EU finance Ministers' meeting in Luxembourg that "the retroactive bank recapitalisation is not probable for the time being. In Germany, we need a change of German legislation,"...