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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I would like to propose that to help Mr. Trethowan. What the Credit Review Office has done on a microcosmic level is very instructive, illustrative and revealing. If we expand it, we will get a very effective team of visitation and penetration into the banks. The Central Bank only deals with aggregates and does not have a clue what is going on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Credit Review Office is getting into the nitty-gritty, the inside leg measurement stuff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Credit Review Office has revealed the size of the task by the work it has done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: The tragedy is that the banks did not do this. This is what they should have been doing for the past 15 years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: It has been a pleasure to hear Mr. Trethowan's contribution and answers to our questions and observations. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett mentioned the big picture - the recovery of demand and the economy. The banking system is like the plumbing system that makes a house - the economy - warm or go cold. How can we support demand instead of it going flat, as Deputy Mary Lou McDonald mentioned?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: Mr. Trethowan should keep up the good work. We need his persuasiveness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: Senator Aideen Hayden made a correct point. There is a fear in the banks and their customers. We must eliminate this fear through correct management and the provision of facts. We must have a write-down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: By inference, the bad piece must be written down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I thank the Chairman who has been very kind to me today.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (21 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: There are four minutes overall for the questions and answers.
- Other Questions: Skills Shortages (21 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: There is a question to follow.
- Other Questions: Skills Shortages (21 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I call Deputy Catherine Murphy because she asked the question.
- Other Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (21 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: One can never get too much of a good thing.
- Other Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (21 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I thank the Deputies for their questions, and the Minister and Minister of State for their replies.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (26 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in relation to the provision of free general practitioner care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9800/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: That is a good summary of the position. I agree it is great to see that members of the public have such interest and are prompted by events such as the The Gathering. However, as Senator O'Keeffe has indicated, members could regard it as being closed from the perspective of further research.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: That sounds like a very good course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I am sure he was aware at the time that during the hearings held by the other joint committee, there was an opportunity to make submissions. All parties and people in the country could make submissions if they so wished.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: Both those petitions were in the area of natural resources. It is interesting to see the importance of getting, to use that phrase, the playing pitch properly marked out and understood and having everyone who will be affected properly informed. The fact the company has withdrawn its licence means there will be a much more focused effort to get corrected those starting points and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: That is agreed. The joint committee will give them a total panorama of the position.