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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am struck by several issues which may arise when SMEs go to the bank with business plans and I wonder what the bank does to address them. SMEs sometimes ask for too little finance as they think the bank will be resistant to the request, and under-pitch their requirements. The bank is developing and educating specialist teams, which is good, because if they see that the business they are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: The owner of a property in a Dublin suburb could get €2,000 per month or €24,000 per annum in rental income. Multiplied by 15, this equates to a 7% yield, or €360,000. That would be the open market value of the property. The cross check in this regard is that the family likely to be living in that property, if owner-occupied, will not, on average, have an income of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am asking about property market investment values.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: Does it remain so based on incomes and rents?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: I sense that AIB is doing that well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am heartened that AIB has undertaken robust revisioning of €18.5 billion or thereabouts on a €95 billion book. That is good. It contrasts with the other pillar bank, which has done only a little more than €8.5 billion against the same-sized gross loan book.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: I apologise for my late arrival and I thank the Minister for his forbearance and patience in staying. He referred to broadening the tax base. Will he agree that at this stage the public believe there are a great number of stealth taxes in the form of cost of living increases, increases in the cost of gas and other utilities, water charges to come, property tax, VHI and other medical...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: The evidence is not there to show that builders were the cause of the problem of the huge credit-fuelled boom and bust because, in fact, it was the banks. I handed the Minister a paper the other day - I apologise for the manner in which I did it - which explains it as a matter of fact and balance sheets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: No. By definition, the Minister said-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: I want to check this but the Minister just said that there are not sufficient units being built, that they are not in the market and that is the reason rents are rising. If that is the case, builders could not have caused the bust; it was a credit-fuelled price bust, an asset price bust. That is where the banking inquiry should start.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Minister mentioned that at the moment there are some transactions that are showing price rises in the property market around Dublin in particular. There is a golden rule that a house has an economic value of the inverse of the yield. In other words, if an investor buys the rent at a 7% yield, the house is worth 15 times the rent. That is a stabilising force and the key stabilising...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: There is no credit to fuel it - that is the beauty of it. AIB told us today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am a forgiving sort of guy. Sometimes I "fivegive", not only forgive.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: In the context of the delivery of medical and nursing services and the pending legislation on universal health insurance, it is alarming that young GPs and trainee nurses are under such pressure at present.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: This morning the case of a trainee nurse who worked ten weeks without a day off was referred to on radio.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: It is relevant to the health and well-being of people in this country.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: Crisis point has been reached in respect of the pay of and hours worked by young trainee nurses.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: What was described on radio earlier is prevalent throughout the system. These people are double-jobbing and, as a result of tiredness, they are sometimes not in a position to notice if patients' health is deteriorating.
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: I thank Deputy Naughten for giving me some of his time at short notice. The Bill is an omnibus Bill. Rather than going into the anatomy of the Bill, I will look at the overview. There are more than 70 new Members of this 31st Dáil. This is territory that the experienced and longer serving Deputies will have been familiarised with over the years. It is an omnibus Bill that addresses...
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2014)
Peter Mathews: Some items could have been dealt with separately.