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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: I opened my remarks by saying that the closer Union is imperative for us all. Mutual-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: Does the Tánaiste agree that the financial markets failed us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: That is what I said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: There are 6,000 banks that need recapitalisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: What is the average yield?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: I thank the gentlemen from the NTMA for attending. I would really appreciate it if they answered very quickly or said "Pass" because I have many questions to ask. Have all three delegates read Carmen Reinhart's book on debt?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: Has anyone read John Mauldin's work on the debt super-cycle?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: That is telling. I would recommend both books. Do the delegates know that Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, was not aware in May 2011 that the banking liabilities of our six little old banks - amounting to approximately €75 billion - related to the repayment of bond investors, in spite of the fact that there was at least €75 billion in losses, owing to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: Did it do any work for the NTMA in the past two years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: Rothschild and Barclays did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: What about BlackRock Consulting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: What about Oliver Wyman?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: It was part of the PCAR exercise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: What about Merrill Lynch? It provided advice on the bank guarantee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: When it was engaged, it was already in a state of rescue involving Bank of America. It never admitted this on the papers of introduction and in the appendices to its advice to the Minister and the NTMA. This is the sort of establishment that does not inspire confidence. When we refer to confidence and PR staff whose job is to say confidence is improving, it wears thin with me. Two weeks...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: No, please. The Chairman will be able to say this in Paris between the 10th and 13th and I will not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: I love my country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: That needs to be said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: They have been very good and have been here for two and a half hours.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Economy and Funding Requirements: Discussion with NTMA (24 Jan 2013)
Peter Mathews: It is unfair to them.