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- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: An employee or an officer of the HSE is not a company or other vehicle who would provide services. An officer is a person. An employee is a person, not a company.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance his intentions to exempt (details supplied) from a benefit tax. [19420/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: It is a difference of approximately 25% of GNP. That is significant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Capable lending?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Were they not alternatives rather than options? There is a difference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: An option is an offer. An alternative is a difference of opportunity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Adjustments could be made by taxes as well as cuts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: The delegates should be afforded an opportunity to use the rest room if they wish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: I would like them to feel no physical tension while listening to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Would any of the delegates like to use the rest room first?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: A great deal of territory has been already covered in terms of the council's mandate, which is very fiscal concentrated, as set out at the bottom of page 1. Professor McHale stated in his presentation that the balance sheet recession shadows everything not alone in Ireland, but abroad. I have been saying that since 2009, including officially on paper to the late Brian Lenihan, in which I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: This is the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and this is a policy matter for the country; it hit the entire economy for seven years because of the banking sector and the regulator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Dr. Donovan is dead right and I thank him for his work. Thanking people takes up time and I am being cornered again in a five-minute bundle, with people before having 25 minutes. I have listened to everybody else. That is the irony of these committees. If I stay in here, listen and respect other people's views, when everybody else disappears and I want to make a genuine contribution, I cannot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Small and medium enterprises had €50 billion in exposure, and 50% of it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: These are the highlights that must be amended.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: I completely respect the Chair. That is why I am here all this time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: With the indulgence of the Chair, I will make a brief contribution on taxation.
- Organ Donation: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: We are expecting a couple of Deputies in the Chamber to make their contributions in the next few minutes. Perhaps we will suspend for five minutes.
- Organ Donation: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: It was a matter of timing; the Minister of State concluded her contribution in half the allotted time.
- Organ Donation: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Is it agreed to suspend for ten minutes?