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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received: P00029/12, P00033/12, P00038/12 and P00053/12 (17 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: The comments made are apt and to the point. As a matter of public policy the new legislation should consider including the operations and internal transparencies of the Central Bank in the Ombudsman's remit. Issues may arise in respect of the Central Bank's work that expand beyond consumer protection, for example, investment clients of banks are in a grey area between consumer and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received: P00029/12, P00033/12, P00038/12 and P00053/12 (17 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: Would this impact on the Financial Services Ombudsman?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received: P00029/12, P00033/12, P00038/12 and P00053/12 (17 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: The petition highlights the existence of the framework of rules that apply to people in this situation. It articulates the problem clearly and asks us as public representatives and policy makers in a society that is developing whether we should investigate it as a matter of policy and alter that framework rule to include and to reflect a better fairness in the working lives of people who...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received: P00029/12, P00033/12, P00038/12 and P00053/12 (17 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: In the social contract.
- Other Questions: State Airports (18 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: I have come to this debate late, but could Shannon Airport be a location for the Air Corps? It could be a base to help in the policing of fishing fleets and so on off the west coast. We could think laterally.
- Other Questions: State Airports (18 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: The Air Corps could move from Baldonnel.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bond Redemption (23 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 9 October 2012, if this redemption was funded directly or indirectly, in whole or in part by increasing borrowing from the European Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45643/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (23 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure that there will be no further increase in interest rates for variable mortgage holders within AIB bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46462/12]
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: We must set aside partisan politics.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: The Deputy is returning to them.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: Maybe they are saving the fund for the German banking collapse.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: Deputies must address their comments through the Chair.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: I now call on the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for his statement.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: I beg the Tánaiste's pardon.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: Deputy Wallace.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: Okay.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: As we are running out of time I will take brief questions from two more Deputies.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: I ask Deputy Flanagan to be brief because we are against the wire.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: The Tánaiste may, by agreement, use his concluding remarks to continue answering these questions. Is that agreed?
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Peter Mathews: That is at the Tánaiste's discretion.