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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I thank the Chair for allowing me to attend this meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I merely wished to take the opportunity to thank the Chairman, as I like to be friendly. I do not believe I have attended a meeting of this joint committee previously. My apologies; I attended the committee last May, as the Chairman knows only too well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: Exactly. I met Mr. Philip McAnenly almost immediately following the announcement of the closure and he kindly briefed me fully on pretty well all the information that has been presented here. I remembered it point by point. The question that Senator Colm Burke raised is easily answered because it was public knowledge that Mount Carmel Hospital, which was controlled by Gerard Conlon, paid a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I thank the Minister and his officials for attending. I wish to reverberate the questions Deputy Boyd Barrett posed. Increasingly, as I approach the completion of my third year in the Dáil, it is disappointing that a full discussion has not really taken place in ordinary and conversational English about the fairness of the taxation system, how incomes are generated, whether they are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: This is part of the ECOFIN debate. Countries across Europe in the eurozone, which are now seeking monetary union and so forth, must address these problems. As recently as last Friday, the German constitutional court said that the actions and operations of the ECB in its OMT operations are unconstitutional from the German point of view. That affects all financial legislation going through...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am not. They affect the country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: We are a small cog in the machine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: It is unbelievable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am trying to be helpful. I am trying to help people in this country to see things as they are, not the misperceptions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: No. I have been cut off. I have not been allowed to contribute to this discussion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: Assessable.
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: The next speaker is Deputy Naughten. He he is sharing time with Deputy Terence Flanagan and they will have five minutes each.
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: Yes, if he arrives.
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: The next speaker is Deputy Terence Flanagan who will have four minutes and Deputy Timmins will have a minute and a half.
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I call the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Alan Kelly, who is sharing time with Deputies Conway and Kevin Humphreys.
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Deputy has three minutes remaining.
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: While the conversation is interesting, I remind the House that we are taking statements.
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Deputy's time is up.
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Deputy may continue.