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- Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) (Repeal) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: These are the three common elements. We are concerned when the air becomes polluted by lead emitted by buses and cars. If one goes back one will find that even the delivery of public water came through a plumbing system in which all of the pipes were made of lead. People were doing their best in those times, and then insights from science showed them that the reason people in Pompeii were...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: Is it "not earlier than" that date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Revenue Commissioners cannot go in earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: Physical offices anywhere in Dublin, where people can go in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: Will Ms Feehily assess it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: It might be called the monthly draw.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: I will offer a wrap-up for the real world. People have concerns relating to telephone, e-mail and communication by computers. It is distant and remote. It is extremely stressful for people. Could the Revenue Commissioners possibly set up an actual office, here in Dublin? People are really concerned, and they would take the trouble to come to an office in order that they-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: I am serious.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: It could be in Cork. The Revenue Commissioners have offices throughout the country. The point is to have a desk to which people can go with their forms and talk it through. This is a mad world and even with banks nowadays one does not know whom one is speaking to because there are only call centres.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: I thank Ms Feehily and her colleagues for coming before the committee. Not everybody was written to on this occasion. I think that perhaps everybody should have been. The situations mentioned by Deputy Fleming can arise next year if the local authorities increase the tax. Everybody should be alerted to what everybody else is paying. It also means that the basic assessment or valuation is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: I know. The single debit authority is a signed originating document. It should be kept on file and should not be torn up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: It should be available.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: I do not wish sound teachery, so to speak. If I do, I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Revenue Commissioners are doing their very best on every level in respect of completeness, correctness, timeliness, customer service and so on. I acknowledge that and I would like to be associated with Deputies Higgins, Boyd Barrett and Fleming to the extent that there are administrative matters. They are right. It is a shocking shame that €50 billion of losses have been put on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: I will refund Ms Feehily her money if it disappoints.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: It can be cancelled.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: It is for single debit payments. They know all the details.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: There is so much to say and so little time to say it. The way we do our choreography is not helpful.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: When I left UCD in 1972, my mind was comfortable with the belief in the capitalist market system as a way that would motivate the best production of goods and services in an efficient way, with government policy and establishment behaviour ensuring a fair distribution of the rewards of that production. In the past five years, or even the five years previous to that, suspicions arose in me...
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.