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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: What I am saying is that these investors are awash with dollars with which they buy euro because they are speculating that the dollar will fall. The dogs in the street in the financial markets know that the dollar is due for a fall. That is why there is an active market in the financial assets that NAMA is selling. If there were no American funds with dollars buying euro, there would not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: Does Mr. McDonagh remember the question I asked about doing the ledger work for NAMA? Many of the banks were doing it, now Capita is doing it, and so on? Were the banks paid for doing that work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: They should not have been because they are not carrying out proper commercial policy themselves in writing down their own loan masses to collectable receivable amounts. NAMA has disposed of approximately €17 billion worth, at cost, of assets out of the €32 billion, leaving approximately €14.5 billion or €15 billion at cost. Is the income off those remaining...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: It does not want to run out of fuel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: It does not want to make the non-sales cash flow too thin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: After four hours my head is hardly able to recognise anything.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (23 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will approach Irish third level institutions regarding the contribution they may make to the setting up of Gaza scholarships, especially in the fields of medicine and nursing, horticulture and engineering, as a serious means of aid to the rebuilding of Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40778/14]

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: I thank Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice for sharing his time with me. This is a timely Private Members’ motion because it addresses problems that are not going away. The mortgage and housing crises are embedded in society and need to be addressed. The boards of the two main banks, AIB and Bank of Ireland, and the third bank, Ulster Bank, are actually remote from the realities of life...

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: That is only a sample of what I wanted to say.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: The split mortgage is a joke.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: It is illusory.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: The Minister of State is trying to convince us that something is true when it is illusory.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: There is the case of Tony O'Reilly, for example.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: It is wrong.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: That is correct.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: 824. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a proposal (details supplied) from an experienced senior academic regarding the contribution which third level scholarships could make to the rebuilding of Gaza and, in particular, to young adults impacted by the destruction of education infrastructure; if he will support each institution making just one...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: 898. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills on learning supporting teachers in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin, if the school will lose learning support teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41547/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Data Protection (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: 1040. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reasons PPS numbers are required for payment of water charges; if PPS numbers are protected under data protection legislation; if he is satisfied that PPS numbers will not be used by any third party; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41635/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Remit (4 Nov 2014)

Peter Mathews: 1039. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding Irish Water, if he will confirm that citizens will be charged for a call out and leak fix should it be necessary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41627/14]