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- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: You did not throw me out. You asked me to leave and I left.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: This is disgraceful for a citizen of the country and a constituent of mine.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Taoiseach should lift the telephone.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: 305. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in respect of the Intoxicating Liquor (General) Act 1924, her plans to repeal the provision banning the sale of alcohol on Good Friday; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45156/15]
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: What about the game-changing promissory bonds worth €25 billion?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: What about the €25 billion in promissory bonds?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Government should cancel the €25 billion promissory bonds.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: Cancel the €25 billion promissory bonds.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: I commend the previous speakers on their excellent observations. I had experience in this area in the 1980s. I worked with ICC Bank and I was responsible for providing development finance to large house building groups such as Sisks, O'Malleys, Sorahans and so on and to those building apartment blocks in our cities. Generally, the bank took a hands-on approach to what was happening. One...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: I am not straying, I am joining up the dots. That €25 billion has a totally toxic and odious provenance - the losses of two banks forced on the Irish people. Professor Honohan lost his temper with me and Stephen Donnelly at a meeting in July 2014. Did Deputy Boyd Barrett attend that meeting or was it Luke "Ming" Flanagan? It was former Deputy Flanagan. At that meeting, I put it to...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: I am coming right to it.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: A €25 billion cancellation-----
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: I want to stay with this point. What could we do with a €25 billion cancellation?
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: There was €17 billion of Pensions Reserve Fund money plundered.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Minister of State-----
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: This will be wrapped up very quickly. There is €17 billion to reinstate the National Pensions Reserve Fund which is the pension fund the Minister of State and his children will need in a few years time. It was plundered and depleted to €4 billion in March 2012, which was wrong.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: The connection is that €17 billion from €25 billion leaves €8 billion; €4 billion of that €8 billion cancellation is used to mend the water pipes and water treatment works. Irish Water, which was set up by the Minister and Minister of State-----
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: -----says it will need €8 billion for repairs over the next number of years, so there is €4 billion left. Social housing is the connection; it would get €2 billion of the other €4 billion.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: Social housing will include apartments.