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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: In the context of the questions raised, I am a newcomer to the Dáil and I am very honoured and privileged to serve the people - the whole people - of this country. However, I was shocked last year when, for example, in the Seanad and Dáil debates on the proposed abolition of the Seanad, a weird situation seemed to arise where the debates were not meaningful but were meaningless...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: When you are the new boy in the class, you do not object.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am a Member of this Dáil, like you.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: How dare the Minister of State say that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: Conscientious objection.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: That is the reality.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: To clarify, it was a conscientious objection. It was not just a-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: Never judge a book by its cover.
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: According to the legislative programme, publication of the gambling control Bill, the purpose of which is to update and consolidate the law on betting and gambling, is expected in early 2015. Given the high level of advertising and marketing of gambling on television, telephone apps and so forth and the fact that the problem of gambling is becoming increasingly acute, with wives and partners...
- Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: I wish to share my time with Deputy Naughten.
- Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: I welcome the opportunity to continue to outline some of my thoughts. The HSE's Vote is moving into the Department of Health. It is extremely important that the financial measurement of what goes on in the health service and the delivery of the health needs of patients in all hospitals is done in a way that allows the activities of delivering the service to be costed. To date, it has been...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (11 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm further to the special liquidator of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation's statement (details supplied) to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform that the partner leading the valuation work was from PwC in London and that any PwC people could not have had a prior relationship with IBRC; if he will clarify whether the...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: It is not believable.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: It is just not believable.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: We have been hearing this for years.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: I know. I am saying the Taoiseach's answer is just not believable.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: What is going on is unbelievable.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: In regard to the gambling control Bill the Taoiseach kindly answered yesterday that it will be published early in 2015. In the meantime, there is a crisis in the advertising of gambling on websites that allow phone apps and other instruments to undermine family life and so on. What can be done about that? How can the advertising, as in tobacco advertising-----