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- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: The irony is that in a couple of recent debates I had to beg, borrow and steal to get time to make a contribution but on this occasion events of the day have intruded on my preparation time to make a contribution. The Minister and I know each other long enough and well enough for me to say with hand on heart that she got off the starting blocks on this issue with her mind and heart in the...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: That is something that makes me feel awkward and puts me on the back foot when I have to discuss it with my wife. New Ireland Assurance is not known for wall-of-death risks. The company has an array of risk-complexioned funds and I am sufficiently adult and professional to know that investments go up and down but that is a pretty rotten performance. That is a hold position, as it were,...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: Shame.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: Shame again.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: What are the public interest directors doing?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: They were not acting rationally.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: Deputy Pearse Doherty said he would press his amendment.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: Is the amendment agreed to?
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: Amendments Nos. 5 and 6 are related and will be discussed together.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Deputy has made his point very well.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: If I could make a helpful observation in a neutral sense, there is still a degree of uncertainty on the Minister of State's part and also on that of the Deputy. Perhaps it might be an idea to obtain some further clarification in respect of how the provision will operate.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: I honestly think that it probably requires further tightening up. Having listened to the debate, that is my impression.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: No, it is already on the record.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: Amendments Nos. 3 and 4 will be discussed together.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: Amendment No. 1 has been ruled out of order because it involves a potential charge on the people.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett has proposed that reliefs for employment grants and subsidies paid to employers who participate in the JobsPlus scheme be paid only where the employer's annual net profits are over €250,000. These amendments involve a potential charge on the people and, accordingly, must be ruled out of order in accordance with Standing Order 155(3).
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: No.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: Yes.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation Office (3 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: 123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the backlog in the Valuations Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51295/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral Commission Administration (3 Dec 2013)
Peter Mathews: 253. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons employed at count centres for referenda and elections since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51704/13]