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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: In regard to drugs, I was informed by an Iranian citizen who has lived in Ireland for many years and who visits his relations in Iran that the drug problem is due to police corruption. Between 1 million and 2 million young Iranian men are going around dazed with drugs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: That is my first question. The second -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Is Iran selling arms to Syria at the moment? Why does Iran's leadership, under the Khameneis effectively, not consider separating state from religion so that equal rights can be honoured as between peoples? How wealthy are Ayatollah Khamenei and his sons? I have heard estimates of at least $50 billion or $60 billion. Fatwas are decrees. We are not used to the idea of decrees in this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I think it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I think it hugely relevant. President Putin's wealth is mentioned in international discussions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I think it is important because it reflects power.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Does Syria?
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: May I ask a question, please?
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I do not have a leader.
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: What is funny?
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: She is my colleague.
- Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Deputy Mick Wallace needs all the time that has been allocated to him.
- Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Exactly.
- Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: A sum of €500 million.
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. I was very disappointed that the Independent Deputies not belonging to the Technical Group did not get a chance to speak on Second Stage. I am disappointed also that the Bill has been presented hurriedly, although I realise it has been three years on the runway. I am not making criticisms but constructive observations.
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am speaking to the amendment because it refers to the fact that 136,000 households are in mortgage distress. In the presentation made yesterday by Mr. David Hall and the representatives of Grant Thornton, to which Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett referred, they said it was expected that there would be a bloodbath. In fact, there has been a bloodbath. There have been very many suicides, as...
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: These are symptoms which demonstrate our current position. As when one is building, one must clear the site before one can start laying good foundations for a new structure. As Deputy Shane Ross implied in his two anecdotes, the banking system is in bits; it is still banjaxed. "Pillar banks" is a rubbish title to give the banks. Wilbur Ross made €500 million within two years and...
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am sticking to them. All of my points refer to amendments Nos. 1, 11, 13 and 14 directly and indirectly. I did not get a chance to speak on Second Stage. I have 21 years' experience of working in a bank that was funded by local and regional deposits in Ireland and which lent to SME businesses in Ireland. It had 70 years of uninterrupted, slow-growth profit and it educated people to be...
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: We should consult Mr. Niclaus Bergmann, chief executive officer of the Sparkhassen, which has 250,000 employees and 29,000 trainee managers across Germany in local and regional areas of banking. The banks are not allowed to trespass on each other, so they understand the businesses to which they are lending. They are lending the deposits of the communities, which give them those deposits...
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Philosophy is an investment.