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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: I will, but, first, I ask that the issue of household debt be examined because that is the problem the country has.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: I appreciate the kindness of the Vice Chairman in letting me ask one or two questions. On debt sustainability, I know the focus has been on sovereign debt. However, Ireland is the country which has been most crushed and burdened by debt, even more so than Japan. The paper produced by the Bank for International Settlement economists for a conference in Wyoming in the United States in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: This is very simple, although nobody is saying it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: The Chair should gag me the next time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: I will, but, first, I ask that the issue of household debt be examined because that is the problem the country has.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: We have four minutes to deal with a supplementary questions and replies.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: For the record, AIB paid the bond yesterday.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: Noted.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: Deputy Tóibín, very briefly.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: I thank the Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: The Minister, very briefly. He has 30 seconds.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: The next question is in the name of Deputy John Browne but he is not in attendance so we will move on.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: I beg your pardon.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: The Minister is responsible for the groupings. Does he feel up to answering both of the questions together?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: The Minister might accept a supplementary question.

Other Questions: Youth Unemployment Numbers (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: I have been a little untidy in that I should have been restricting the supplementary questions and the replies thereto to one minute each.

Other Questions: Youth Unemployment Numbers (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: As there are three other Members who wish to put questions, does the Minister wish to hear their questions before he addresses this one?

Other Questions: Youth Unemployment Numbers (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: Okay, but I remind Members that we are working against the clock on these.

Other Questions: Youth Unemployment Numbers (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: Will the three Members ask their final supplementary questions before the Minister replies because we are running out of time for this question?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the delays in processing carer's allowance applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41815/12]