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Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Peter Mathews: This amendment is a good safeguard for fairness and equality for Members of a Parliament. We, rather than parties, have been elected as Members of Parliament. Parties are the umbrella or playing colours of individuals elected to Parliament. It is sometimes good to see what has happened in reality in order to diagnose a problem or explore the possibility of fairness and better conduct in...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Peter Mathews: This is important. It begins with the allocation of space, resources and money to carry out research to carry out parliamentary functions. Suddenly it is whipped without thinking. Taking resources from somebody who has been duly elected, man or woman, young or old, is not right. Anybody can see it is utterly not right. I will do whatever it takes to ask the Minister to do the right...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Peter Mathews: The corollary is what you are saying.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Peter Mathews: I know by definition if there is a debate there are two viewpoints, if not many more. If the Minister paid attention to the events that took place, he would see the circumstances of how they took place, what the outcomes were and who had the power and authority to do what was done, and to do it suddenly like a field marshal. I will not use another phrase for it but it is not good behaviour....

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Peter Mathews: The connections are important as people should understand them. I am not saying I have a monopoly on wisdom as I do not. This is an understanding that I wish to share. It is humble sharing. If I give the impression that I see myself as having the one and only correct view, I do not. However, I am sharing an understanding. It is like a body floating in water because it is lighter. It is...

Rural Coastal Communities Report: Motion (10 Jul 2015)

Peter Mathews: I would like to congratulate Deputy Doyle and his sub-committee on the production of this report. While I admit that I have not read it, the Members who have contributed to today's debate have enabled me to capture the essence of the report and its understanding of where we stand as an island country. All of the contributions have been hugely instructive and very revealing to me as someone...

Rural Coastal Communities Report: Motion (10 Jul 2015)

Peter Mathews: That I should speak to the report.

Rural Coastal Communities Report: Motion (10 Jul 2015)

Peter Mathews: I am doing that. However, there is no point in echoing the detail of what Deputies Martin Ferris, Pringle, Doyle, Ó Cuív or Mitchell O'Connor have said. They have put their critiques on the record, from the advantaged position of understanding it and having first-hand experience of this.

Rural Coastal Communities Report: Motion (10 Jul 2015)

Peter Mathews: My point is that, like me, many other Deputies come from the metropolis, and they are hurrying in one direction. They are monoline thinkers and monoline contributors to the powerful and vested interests of the country, where the resources are concentrated towards multinational corporations, taxation and so forth. Out on the coast, within the 12 mile limit, there is the conjunction of the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Peter Mathews: I have had enough. I am going to leave.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (22 Sep 2015)

Peter Mathews: 297. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason his assurance provided in December 2013 and February 2014 disagrees with evidence (details supplied) given under oath at the banking inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30426/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2016 (22 Sep 2015)

Peter Mathews: 330. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to the inheritance tax, his plans to abolish the tax in the forthcoming budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31208/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aer Lingus Sale (22 Sep 2015)

Peter Mathews: 1596. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the sale of Aer Lingus to the International AG, in order to complete the sale of the Government's share in Aer Lingus, if he will make a final closure request to purchasers IAG that they would a subscription into the IASS fund, particularly with the view to restore some of the exceptional losses suffered by the deferred...

Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)

Peter Mathews: I have two items under consideration. The first is Deputy Penrose's Bill for one-year bankruptcy. At present, an increasing and pressing inequality is visibly apparent. The Ceann Comhairle will have seen Professor David McWilliams's television programme, which shows, in simple Seán and Mary language, what a few Members have been trying to get across and impress on the Government's...

Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)

Peter Mathews: I believe it is being supported by the Government but it needs to be fast-tracked because there are 100,000-----

Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)

Peter Mathews: No, there was an undertaking-----

Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)

Peter Mathews: Definitely an undertaking, by the Government.

Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)

Peter Mathews: One-year bankruptcy is needed, people are being bullied-----

Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)

Peter Mathews: I was at the IMO briefing session at which doctors had people in their surgeries whose health is falling apart. Suicides are taking place because the banks are out of control. They caused the problem, and the banking inquiry has not even revealed this-----