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Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: What about the pension funds?

Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: Sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I wonder whether the Minister of State has an answer to a question. He may wish to comment on it. I refer to my opening remarks of welcome and good wishes to the Minister of State and to Deputy Twomey as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Finance and Public Expenditure. Perhaps this is an opportunity for me to ask whether there is any chance that the...

Topical Issue Debate: Budget 2015 (9 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: Shame.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: Shame.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (14 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: This is a health issue, but the measure before the House is going to raise €53 million in revenue. Some of this money should be dedicated to screening for breast cancer among women in the age group up to 65 years.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (14 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: The police and the Customs people will need the resources to police the illegal cigarettes industry. As the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Reilly, has said, producing cigarettes is like producing a death product. Let us imagine cars were made without brakes and a person had to take his chances knowing that 50% of the users in a certain amount of years were going to die for...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: Two big tomes with coloured covers were distributed to the House yesterday by the respective Ministers of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform. I really had to fight my way through them. In the case of the finance budget, headline figures that should have been in the introduction were buried deep down. These are headline figures about what the amount of GDP and GNP will be. These...

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: The only reason I decided to be a candidate in a general election was to try to bring some of the facts and correct analysis of what had happened in the Irish economy, and, therefore, to the people, onto the discussion floor in the House. This was preferable to what I had seen to that point, that is to say, Irish representatives from the previous Government and from the current Government...

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: This is its core.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: Do you not like that part of the world?

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: He was almost elected on a shoestring budget, despite the hundreds of thousands of euro spent by one of the Government parties for its candidate. I accompanied him, with some other Independent Deputies, to visit the office of the Governor of the Central Bank at the end of July to ask these questions and be allowed to attend the ECB and meet its members in order that we could make the case...

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: Not at all, I am talking about capital.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: My last sentence was about capital infusion. The ESM-----

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: It does not matter; you do not have to like me.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: You do not have to like me; I am making a professional contribution.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: The ESM has a provision for €60 billion in capital.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am dealing withy the core of the matter.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: Can I seek clarification from you?

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: The ESM has a capital provision of €60 billion. That is what I am discussing. It is not enough.