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- Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: Perhaps the Minister should do that.
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: This is a large, comprehensive and complex Bill. Having listened to the most recent contributions of Deputies Shortall, Boyd Barrett and Mattie McGrath, I would suggest that it boils down to the reality of situations. If we try to create a framework for fairness and responsibility, having recognised the truth and reality of the situation, then we are on the road to respect for the...
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: I support Deputy Mac Lochlainn. It is a bit like the Land Registry as it solved a lot of problems when land and properties were registered centrally. Previously title documents were lost. We are talking about a statutory declaration, which by its nature the State protects. Given the importance of what the declaration protects, it ought to be on a central register to keep it safe. That is...
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: The reason a register is of such great importance is that this particular type of statutory declaration vests responsibilities of guardianship and is not only a statutory declaration of fact. Property vests title, ownership and the responsibilities and obligations of owning property. The Land Registry was needed because otherwise we would be left with the mess of human business intercourse....
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Land Registry is a case in point.
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: The legislation is an opportunity to address it.
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: I add my thanks to the Minister, her Department, her officials, the Opposition spokespersons and to everyone who took part in the debate. I am sorry that I was only able to attend a limited amount of it. The Bill is the full expression of how realities have changed in our country and among our people. It is indicative of the wider family that is Ireland with all the people who have come...
- Topical Issue Debate: Mobile Telephony (12 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: May I ask a question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: I am a Member of Parliament.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Chair asked for supplementary questions and I have something to offer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: The key question for this Parliament to address is social policy and not just social policy but social awareness, social conscience. The hard-hitting concrete items that have been raised by the leaders of the two main Opposition parties and by Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett, put flesh and blood on the arid statistics. I remind the Taoiseach that the social impact - those are his words - of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: -----and these children are in addition to the 90,000 on the housing waiting list which represents about 220,000 human beings. These are our fellow citizens. These people are traumatised by stress. It underscores-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: It underscores the necessity for Deputy Michael McGrath's Bill-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: -----and Deputy Penrose's Bill to take away the veto from the banks.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: The banking inquiry tomorrow is a farce. On the Order Paper-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: Please give me one minute. That will be twice. Is it exit Tuesday for me every Tuesday?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: Yes, and I am asking questions-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: I do not know whether it is worth being a Member of this Parliament-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Peter Mathews: -----when one is not a member of a massive majority Government. Will the Taoiseach give me some of his time to expand a little, please? Otherwise it is a farce.