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Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I have sat in that chair-----

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: -----and I have never caused people to laugh at a Member.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I will in a moment.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I will do it in a moment.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I do not need a microphone.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: It is a matter of fact that, on average, of the asset price collapse in this country the banks caused-----

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: People are paying for that. The faster the inquiry gets going, the better for 180,000 people.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: That was an unfortunate episode. Thank you.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: That is a wonderful joke.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: Will it beat the statute of limitations?

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. It is appreciated. I like cordiality. I have a little paper the Minister might find helpful as a starting point for the banking inquiry.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I do not think the Minister was very fair in his remark to me. I am helping him on the starting point for the banking inquiry.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: The Minister took advantage of the Chamber to make a joke at me, not with me.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am an Independent. Did the Minister of State not notice?

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: As I am new, I am still learning. Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, for pointing it out to me.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am new.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I welcome all the representatives to the meeting. I wish to explain how and why I am here and why I am speaking now. I was ejected from the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform as a result of a vote last July. It was a pity because I was one of the best attenders of the committee and I made many contributions. I want everyone to know this. The reason I am speaking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I have a paper here that I will leave with the committee. I preface my remarks by saying I take my hat off to these four gentlemen because they were not part of the bank boards, across the whole banking sector, that were not decent. I can say this safely because the figures and balance sheets show it. In the case of AIB, which was not part of its watch, its loan-to-deposit ratios for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am going to take advantage of this and speak to the gentlemen who are here. The Chairman can go and vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I hope I will be forgiven for my frustration, but it is distressing when people and families of good faith, whose incomes have been smashed and reduced as a result of the Nagasaki type disaster I have described, are hit on both fronts. They are hit on the asset price collapse and the negative equity, which clouds the issue. AIB Bank is accountable and responsible for that 72% collapse in...