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- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: I am not.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: Deputy Wallace will mention the 90% purchase by hedge funds with strong US dollars-----
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: These hedge funds are buying the apartments.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: The connections have to be made otherwise the right sort of apartments will not be built. The Minister of State will be doing meaningless stuff disconnected from the reality of where we stand. If one lines up all the materials for a programme or strategy and gets the measurements right, whether of money, materials, designs, drawing, strategies, timing or calendars, one will succeed. I have...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: I am showing that €25 billion of cancellation allows us to reset the clock and do it for the right reasons. The Government has been afraid of its own shadow and has squeezed people who should not have been squeezed and allowed inequality to arise though a bad and unbalanced taxation system. Multinational corporates are now actually paying extra tax yet the Government is scratching...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Government could have actually billed them with it four years ago and did not.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Minister of State has missed the point because he does not want to hear. I am not personalising the debate but it is a bad habit that comes from having too many numbers. Everybody stops thinking, inquiring, being curious and taking new ideas from the House.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: Those vulture funds will make €5 billion-----
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: -----that could stay in the country. The amendments that have been made and suggested are dead right. There should not be noise between apartments; it is a living requirement. Deputy Wallace was shaking his head and saying one does not necessarily need concrete block walls between apartment units. Is that right?
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: The living space of neighbouring apartments should not be intruded on by the living noises of those next door. Good window aspect and light is needed. Ceiling heights should be nine ft. tall because people are growing taller. Bicycle parks and playgrounds are also needed. People need access to public spaces, parks, football clubs and so on. This can be built in as a requirement prior to...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: They are sub-standard.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: I am speaking from experience too.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2015)
Peter Mathews: It is not enough.
- Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)
Peter Mathews: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)
Peter Mathews: Pardon?
- Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)
Peter Mathews: Yes. I thank the Ceann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)
Peter Mathews: Just before Christmas, the European Parliament, by an overwhelming majority of over 500 to 11, passed a motion that there were serious transgressions in the case of Ibrahim Halawa, whose case has been again deferred. I appeal to the Taoiseach to save a life, intervene and lift the phone to the Egyptian President. It is not right. I admire-----
- Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)
Peter Mathews: I admire Ms Lynn Boylan, MEP, for getting the cross-party support of all Irish MEPs to advocate on his behalf.
- Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)
Peter Mathews: The Taoiseach's son is the same age as Ibrahim Halawa. He would not have stood by this long-----