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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: I do have appreciation, that is why I waited until now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: I would like to begin by making some observations and asking some questions in this big context. The officials are here to give overview of the banking sector in Ireland. That is their calling card and they have kindly given us a great deal of material - financial details and percentages, etc. - running to over 80 pages. I have tried to bring everyone back to our core responsibility of who...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: I think it was between 158% and 161% between March 2008 and March 2009, which was shocking. If we take a 160% figure and measure it against the surplus using the 90% figure, the prudential, steady-Eddie bank balance sheet management amount, we will see that the average is 70%. That figure - 70% - is the keel that should have been obtained if things had not gone out of control over seven...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: I would like to say one last thing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: The guarantee that the bank-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: I ask the Chair to give me one more minute to say one last thing. This is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Perhaps Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett will cede one minute to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: The guarantee was given on the back of false information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: I told Mr. Patrick Honohan in July this year that the guarantee was voidable as a result.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Mr. Honohan was very upset because it was true.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Shame.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: There may be more about preventing haircuts.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: She did not understand them.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Dream on.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Under duress.
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: We have arrived once again at that time of year when we take stock of the financial position and resources of the country and consider what the Government needs to collect in revenue and how it will spend it. Unfortunately, the language of this presentation is one of total confusion and complexity. Individuals and lobby interests zone in on the particular part of the jigsaw that affects...
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Today during Leaders’ Questions, Deputy Catherine Murphy rightly said that was what should be done. When I, with her, Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly, Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, MEP and Nessa Childers, MEP, told the Governor of the Central Bank in July that the guarantee was like an insurance guarantee and, therefore, voidable and what had had happened as a result was wrong, he...
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: We made an impression.
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: We know we made an impression. Do you want to know why?
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: When we told Bundestag finance committee members that, if the scale equivalent of the losses in our system put on the Irish people was actually put on the German people, it would have come to €1.3 trillion and their eyes were like saucers. It was not the established members of our finance committee who made this point but some of us outliers who had paid our own way to the meeting....