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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: The question is in the same vein and refers to the people who presented a report on the valuation that was incorrect to the tune of €29.7 billion ---
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: My confidence is low because Oliver Wyman said that Anglo Irish Bank was the best banking model in the world but that same organisation is about to undertake the eurozone banking stress tests, which is extraordinary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: INBS as an entity is outside of the liquidation process in operational terms. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: It is now in the federal courts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: That was a different type of fraudulent charging than the one that is the subject of the federal courts ---
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: It has been evidenced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: It has been evidenced, though.
- Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I thank the Minister of State and the Department for putting together this overall plan for a new era. I thank the Bills digest office for providing a helpful 46 page document. I do not intend to whinge about the fact that I am being allowed to speak for just three minutes. We need to remember a few things in this context. The modern scenario...
- Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I recognise that the Minister has the unenviable task that corresponds with the image in mythology or legend of trying to roll the rock up the hill in terms of the HSE, the Department of Health and the delivery of medicine and nursing to the people of Ireland to the people of Ireland. Deputy Harris spoke about St. Vincent's University Hospital. It is not quite the same as all the other...
- Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: Yes. That order owned the hospital grounds. I grew up in a house at the top of Nutley Lane, off the main Stillorgan Road, and my mother still lives there and I remember that work on the site of the hospital when it was at the early foundations stage was stopped for a few years because there were no funds or resources available from anywhere to continue the building. It then got off the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I thank the Minister and his colleagues for their attendance. I get the feeling going into the algebra of this Bill that perhaps we should take a clean slate approach to this and start defining exactly what these parliamentary activities allowances should be and build from that, from page 1, rather than trying to do sticky-plaster amendments or codicils to an existing framework. Questions...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: Sometimes they do. The consolidated balance sheet is on one page, the consolidated profit and loss account is on one page and the consolidated fund statement is one page, and there are notes supporting it. However, the architecture is there and that is what we should have. We should have it that there are 166 and 60 Members of the Dáil and Seanad, respectively, and in columns and...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: No, but this is the benefit of looking at things afresh from scratch. One does not start adding and subtracting wings, chains or wheels to the first aeroplane or prototype that did not fly. One goes back to the drawing board with one's theory and then with one's practical application of theory and one tries it again. I believe we have reached that stage. As Deputy Fleming has proposed,...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: How did the Minister get that impression?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am merely stating one should not be afraid to look at things afresh.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: Without examining the framework.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: No, there is the Minister's way. It is his document.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: Deputy Donnelly is correct. The Minister is trying to put me down, so he may go ahead.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Chair is a medically qualified doctor.