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An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: Okay, I will say, "untruth". But it is disgusting that after that statement by the leader of the Minister of State's party who is now the Taoiseach, ten people changed their minds and five people fell. That is the result of 2013. I went to the Seanad to listen to that debate and the manipulation was incredible. They tried to tell us that the Bill was a case of preparing the runway for...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: Where has that come from? Explain the €50 billion.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: The overall debt here is bigger than Greece's.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: What about household and private debt?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: They are used to voting with their eyes closed.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: On a point of order, today is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. On 27 January 1945, the last prisoners remaining in Auschwitz were released. I call on the Taoiseach to lead the House in a minute's silence to remember the 1.1 million souls - men, women and children - who died in Auschwitz. We owe it to those who were killed to remember them in this Parliament today.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: I am inviting the Taoiseach to lead the House in a minute's silence.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: It is relevant to today's events.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: The Parliament needs to remember those who died.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: The House should remember those who died. What is the Taoiseach's answer to my request?

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: On Friday, when the Taoiseach was in Davos, the Dáil debated a Private Members' Bill to introduce a section into the Constitution to safeguard every single Member of Parliament, in the Dáil and in the Seanad.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: The Minister of State-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: I am sorry, but this is extremely important.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: The Taoiseach had one speaker in the debate, who said in his opening remarks that the Government would be voting against a Bill whose substance he did not even address in his speech. The Minister of State, Deputy Paul Kehoe, did not address the 27 words in the proposed new section of the Constitution. There are 27 words. Today is 27 January. Today is Auschwitz Day. It was a shame that...

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: I do not enjoy doing this, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: I do not enjoy doing this.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: I do not enjoy doing this.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: I will. There can be no vote on something that was not debated.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: The Bill was not debated by the Minister of State.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: No other Deputy on the Government side contributed to the debate.