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- Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Right. Okay.
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Point taken. The regulation of gambling Bill is due in the next session, in 2015 - the Taoiseach has answered that. In the meantime there is an acute need to eliminate radio and television advertising of online gambling and so on. It is a very acute problem.
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Could the Government introduce a short snappy piece of legislation to deal with that?
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: The advertising is the problem.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Antimicrobial-Resistant Infections Incidence (1 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: 529. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the World Health Organization's report on the overuse of antibiotics, if vigorous and urgent actions are in place in Ireland as well as in conjunction with other countries to deal with this threat. [28235/14]
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Give us a hint.
- Order of Business (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: This is the first anniversary of the dictatorial approach taken by the Taoiseach on a particular Bill, which led to my losing the party Whip, along with Deputy Creighton and others.
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: As a follow-on to Deputy Tóibín's comments, what we knew as the newsagent is becoming more and more the convenience store, which falls under the groceries umbrella. Big multiple stores such as Tesco, are scaling down to convenience-type stores in certain locations, particularly in cities which have a passing population for convenience purposes. The blurring of the types of goods...
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: We have reached an important point in the legislation because this issue boils down to whether we know what we are doing. These amendments relate to transparency regarding the food and household goods bought by families and individuals. We need to know what are the sales of the large organisations in question and what costs they incur when they buy the goods they sell. The power of these...
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: We will have free bets next.
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: In World Cup terms, the Minister has an open goal.
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I find it difficult to deny the obvious. As Deputies Calleary and Tóibín have pointed out, we are staring at the obvious. It is an open goal. The Minister is at a landmark moment or a crossroads in that he is able to do something meaningful for all of the families and individuals in this country. The volume supply of food and household goods is controlled by a few large...
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I did not say that.
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: No, that is not what I said.
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Excuse me, a Cheann Comhairle, the Minister was attributing to me something I did not say.
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Are you going to allow him to claim I said something that I did not say?
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: He is making a point on something I did not say.
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: You can allow him to say-----