Results 3,381-3,400 of 4,928 for speaker:Peter Mathews
- Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following subparagraph after subparagraph (3)(a)(ii):"(iii) that Deputy Peter Mathews be an additional professionally qualified member of the Select Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis,"I put on the record that I wish to thank the Ceann Comhairle because there was a great danger that this debate may have gone ahead without any of the Independent...
- Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: I do.
- Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: I move amendment No. 2:To insert the following paragraph after paragraph (5): “(6) That, in relation to the banking inquiry, the terms of reference include that all the members of the boards of directors of the licensed deposit-taking banking institutions and building societies during the years 2001 - 2008 inclusive, including the six Irish owned institutions (AIB, Bank of Ireland,...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (14 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: 106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase the level of rent supplement for families due to the increase in costs of renting properties,in order that they reflect the real level of rents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21723/14]
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: How much time do I have?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: I want to contribute.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: Going back to when taxation was first talked about in principle, philosophically - equity, certainty, collectability - I believe we have moved into the realm of what happened in the stock exchanges. This was well elucidated by Michael Lewis in his recent book, Flash Boys, which dealt with the great danger and fear among investment banks that with the fragmentation of markets, risks were...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: This is the parallel argument.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: It is difficult to have a conversation when-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: Deputy Boyd Barrett asked why there is only a 6.8% effective rate of taxation on €70 billion of corporate profits, mainly multinational corporation profits. Many of the chief executive officers of these companies are my age contemporaries and I was in schools and college with them. When I have asked them how they would feel if a three year national recovery levy of 3% were imposed on...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: What is the answer from a fiscal and taxation point of view, bearing in mind the philosophical, equity, certainty and collectability to those questions that were very fairly put, and would show leadership in the country in order that the other heavy lifting among the hard-pressed middle, lower middle classes and homeless people could be borne? We are in it together. What is the fiscal...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: Is Mr. McCaughey telling me they would not blink?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: That is a separate argument. The credit bubble involved boards of directors of banks abandoning fractional reserving, pumping up their balance sheets with issues of bonds and-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: Bank of Ireland had €61 billion in bond funding at the end of the year.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am very serious - so serious that I am trying to smile to counterbalance my frustration.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: Fairness is what we are aiming for.
- Return to Writ: Longford-Westmeath - Introduction of New Member (28 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: We welcome, with the warmest and best wishes, Deputy Gabrielle McFadden. We hope she has a happy and successful career.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: What about prom bonds?