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- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: Last Friday, late in the afternoon, the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015 arrived on our desks. Is the Taoiseach serious about this when there are 140,000 children living below the poverty line? Is he serious when there are 19,000 families on housing waiting lists, 40,000 deeply distressed mortgages and hospital...
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Taoiseach should read the newspapers. Is he out of touch?
- Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: Limerick.
- Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: It is beyond madness.
- Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: The safeguard and capacity which Deputy Mac Lochlainn is articulating in this amendment can be translated into real life by reference to what Deputies Daly and Wallace have said. If there are complaints in any sphere of public interaction with the establishment, whether it is banks, insurance companies, the Garda or whatever, the establishment is the status quo. It is very hard to get a...
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: Yes, yes and yes.
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: What about Germany in 1958?
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: Germany had a write-off after the Second World War.
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: They have already written off €100 billion.
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: Correct.
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: True.
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: I believe that.
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: I thank Deputy Catherine Murphy for bringing forward this motion and I salute her for it.I congratulate the Greek finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, and his Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras. These are fine people. I met with Alexis Tsipras when he was in Dublin earlier in the summer. Back in January 2012, before I was expelled from the Minister of State’s party, I visited Berlin with...
- European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: Private household debt and business debt are equal to the national debt.
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: I apologise for coming into the House in a rush and not on schedule, but I would like to make some observations about this Bill. It is good sometimes to bring a refreshing view to the state of representation in the Oireachtas. However, to propose that young adults aged 16, who are still not fully physically or mentally mature, would have the responsibility of voting for Dáil candidates...
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)
Peter Mathews: Does the Minister of State have any 16 year old child?