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- Message from Seanad (12 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: Seanad Éireann has passed the Electoral (Amendment) Dáil Constituencies Bill 2012, without amendment.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (12 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details suplied) regarding tax relief on nursing home fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13107/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for imposing a tax on maternity on maternity benefit.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13108/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Library Services (12 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form, in respect of library services in university libraries, the percentage of total spend allocated to the library services broken down by institution and year for each institute of technology and university for each year from 2005 to date; the number of persons and the full time equivalent in each grade in library,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (12 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the effects the public service recruitment plan is having on the provision of services (details supplied) in respect of Adult Intellectual Disability Services; the likely impact this may have on school leavers transferring into adult services at the end of the school year in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12714/13]
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I thank the House for giving me a brief opportunity to echo what I said on Committee Stage, that maternity benefit is a qualitative as well as a quantitative salutation or encouragement for the role of motherhood. To reduce it to fiscal algebra or arithmetic is a backwards step. Motherhood is a wonderful role which society can endorse and support through maintaining maternity benefit.
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I seek clarification on one issue. Were the statistics and metrics for the aerospace leasing industry from 2007 or 2011?
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: Are there no more recent statistics?
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I was unsure whether I heard it right.
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, will remember that during Committee Stage discussion I urged that both Revenue and the Department would streamline the collection and assembly of information into meaningful management accounting type information. If they did, we would be able to make better policy decisions, no matter who was in charge of the ship of State. It is...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: Having listened to the discussion, I suggest this can be netted down to getting into gear the will to do something about it. Deputy Pearse Doherty is correct that the scale of the contraband or black market is huge. The only way this will be grasped with any effectiveness is by providing resources for Revenue, Customs and Excise and the Garda, and that needs to be done. We know, for...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I welcome and add my support to the amendments, as articulated by Deputy Sean Fleming, on behalf of Deputy Michael McGrath who crafted them. What we are trying to achieve is containment or a reduction in the costs of transport and haulage for industries and businesses in the agricultural, manufacturing and distribution sectors. We are not attempting to rebalance and change the competitive...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: Is this, perhaps, the NAMA wine lake?
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: In technical terms, can vinegar be categorised as wine?
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I contribute to add emphasis to some of the points raised. This tax will hit larger numbers of poorer, older and vulnerable persons. Aside from the heat generated by an open fire, there is the companionship and psychological benefits it provides. The hearth was the heart of a house. In these times of severe financial strain and difficulty, it is one small corner of cheer and warmth in a...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I seek clarification on one issue. Were the statistics and metrics for the aerospace leasing industry from 2007 or 2011?
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: Are there no more recent statistics?
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I was unsure whether I heard it right.
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, will remember that during Committee Stage discussion I urged that both Revenue and the Department would streamline the collection and assembly of information into meaningful management accounting type information. If they did, we would be able to make better policy decisions, no matter who was in charge of the ship of State. It is...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: Having listened to the discussion, I suggest this can be netted down to getting into gear the will to do something about it. Deputy Pearse Doherty is correct that the scale of the contraband or black market is huge. The only way this will be grasped with any effectiveness is by providing resources for Revenue, Customs and Excise and the Garda, and that needs to be done. We know, for...