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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am not. They affect the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: We are a small cog in the machine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: It is unbelievable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am trying to be helpful. I am trying to help people in this country to see things as they are, not the misperceptions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: No. I have been cut off. I have not been allowed to contribute to this discussion.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais), 2014: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: First Stage (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: Tairgim: Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution.I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to seek leave to introduce the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014. The...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais), 2014: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: First Stage (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: Tairgim: "Go dtógfar an Bille in am Comhaltaí Príobháideacha." I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

An Coimisinéir Teanga a Cheapadh: Motion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: Would the witnesses like to address some of those questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: I thank the Chair for allowing me to attend this meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: I merely wished to take the opportunity to thank the Chairman, as I like to be friendly. I do not believe I have attended a meeting of this joint committee previously. My apologies; I attended the committee last May, as the Chairman knows only too well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: Exactly. I met Mr. Philip McAnenly almost immediately following the announcement of the closure and he kindly briefed me fully on pretty well all the information that has been presented here. I remembered it point by point. The question that Senator Colm Burke raised is easily answered because it was public knowledge that Mount Carmel Hospital, which was controlled by Gerard Conlon, paid a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: Deputy Billy Kelleher raised a Topical Issue matter in the Dáil-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: What is the time pressure here, Chairman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: What is the pressure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: Maybe we can discover the questions that need to be put to the Minister on this matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: I feel I have been bundled into a corner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am revisiting some of the key elements of information and asking whether there were other bits of information that should now be examined and questioned. I suggest we should drill into it. My sister is a nurse in Mount Carmel and the hospital has been there since 1950. I remember being there with the Minister in 2012 when new machinery was being installed in one of the operating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: I will keep asking "Why?"

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: Of course it would be.