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- Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: Deputy Byrne has energy.
- Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: Are you that young?
- Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Deputy is less than 10% older than me, which is immaterial. These are important matters. The Government must get rid of all distractions and focus. This is what the team managers do before the matches, such as the one we won last night. They focus. They do not think about playing a defensive game and hope to get a lucky goal in extra time.
- Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Government must put the bit in its teeth and energise. How many Bills are there to be dealt with? Was it approximately 38? If the Government is serious, it can get many of those dealt with instead of saying it would like to have a surer term. Life does not work like that. Life is about what is in front of us. If one does what one can do today well, the rest will look after itself. ...
- Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: Go for it, Minister.
- Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: They may have a split mortgage.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (13 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: 23. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an urgent application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 18; provide a timeline for that application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35475/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (13 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: 372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide an Educate Together national school in Dublin 6 and Dublin 6W; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35276/15]
- Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: I have two items to raise. Before I do, in light of the tragedy at Glenamuck Road and the Travellers who lost their lives, I want to take the opportunity to commend An Garda Síochána for the enormous compassion shown at the Sandyford Community Centre. In the aftermath of their own tragedy, the gardaí have been hugely supportive and shown great empathy for all the Travellers...
- Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: It ties in with the Taoiseach's stated intention last week when I raised the matter that the one-year bankruptcy Bill championed by Deputy Penrose be brought forward as quickly as possible because the Attorney General has given it the all clear, as I understand the Taoiseach is aware. Therefore there is no impediment, no obstacle, no distraction of an election before Christmas. This should...
- Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: -----given that there are 38,000 deeply distressed mortgage householders who want to avail of this but cannot because they have family commitments and children in school. The only tax that was imposed yesterday in the budget was a 5% increase in the price of a packet of cigarettes. Why, given that there is still dithering on the Gambling Control Bill, could the Government not have put a...
- Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: Opportunity open goal missed.
- Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: Suicides could be avoided with the bankruptcy Bill.
- Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: What about the Gambling Control Bill 2013 and the 1.5% levy?
- Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: Yes, I know. It is pathetic. We are given no chance to speak in Parliament on behalf of the people who elected us on the day the budget is announced and now I am being shoehorned into a absurd timeslot of a little over four minutes. It is disgraceful. It is in the gift of the Taoiseach and his Government to say we will relax the rules a little for this important debate on the course the...
- Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: I am taking a further 30 seconds. They are doing this to pay for light, heat, food, fuel and transport. Overworked nurses are taking on second jobs in hotels and pubs because the wages they receive are not sufficient to cover their cost of living.
- Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: They will end up exhausted instead of being refreshed to look after their patients.
- Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: I want to say again-----
- Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: The reporter is present.
- Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)
Peter Mathews: It is wrong that Independent Deputies do not have an opportunity chance to speak.