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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014) Peter Mathews: But we should all think about this. We really must wake up and be honest and banks have to stop faffing around and get real. I know that they are not actually responding meaningfully, to use their own terms, to people. I know this because I am dealing with about five cases at the moment. I know that their boards of directors are refusing to meet professional representatives in cases where...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014) Peter Mathews: It is not sincerity. These facts have not been shared.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014) Peter Mathews: This is of interest as it is a parallel issue. The same thing applies to life assurance companies. I have personal experience of the situation. They now advise customers who hold a convertible life policy that they are obliged by the Central Bank to advise in the interests of customers that the policy could be sold or transferred to a third party in a secondary market. I looked at the...
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: On a point of order, the conduct of the proceedings over the past half an hour has been bewildering. Where is parliamentary democracy?
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Tánaiste said the Government had generously provided 17 hours of debate for the Water Services Bill 2014. On 19 December 2013, nearly a year ago to the day, there was a walk-out by the Opposition when the Water Services (No. 2) Bill was first presented.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: The point of order is that a Bill that was selected by lottery for a two-hour debate tomorrow has now been shunted into the new year, to be debated on 23 January 2016. That will provide 166 Members with 43 seconds each to determine their responsibilities as parliamentary representatives of the whole people of Ireland.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: They were pathetically talking about water services affecting everyone in Ireland. Yes, they do, and so will the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014. Yet the Government is giving 43 seconds per Member of Parliament. They should be ashamed of themselves.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: A year ago, on 19 December, the legislation was rushed through by guillotine by a Government with the largest majority ever in this State. It follows from what was equivalent to the physical destruction that occurred in Europe in the years 1939 to 1945. There was physical destruction that required a rebuilding of the countries where that destruction had taken place. In Ireland, there was...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: There are 17 hours for this debate. There are two hours for the debate that has been deferred to 23 January. That is 43 seconds each for 166 Deputies. It is pathetic.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: It is magic.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: I wish to make a couple of quick points. I echo what Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett has said. The European Union has taken us for fools, as has the Government in turn. This is an island and the shoreline has always been in the ownership of the State and will remain so. Water is an essential element for the life of the people living in the State. Therefore, it should absolutely be...
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: Can we not be friends, a Thaoisigh?
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: I thank the Minister for attending. Everything is interrelated on the Government books. There are off-balance sheet items in the water debate that is expressing itself on the streets outside and now there are 15,000 former employees of a semi-State airline and related businesses who would not have had a problem if they had been full State employees because they would have had a State...
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am wrapping these amendments up into the big picture.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am showing where the connectivity is. I am offering to help coach the trustees of the scheme. There are a few thoughts. Let us get honest, let us get real and let us shine clear light on this. We are fighting this ship coming down the slipway and we cannot stop it. The Minister will stand in front of the microphones and say that we have achieved such a fiscal turnaround, the interest...
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: It is still all interconnected. Is it not?
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: It is still all interconnected.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: I know that. I am seeking a thumbs up. Deputy Brendan Ryan made a very good contribution and Deputy Dessie Ellis made an excellent one. I am just trying to simplify it. Does anybody want me to stop? Those in favour say "Tá" and those against say "Níl".
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: The State should make up the difference in the deficit.