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Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I agree this is all about revenue raising.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Tobacco is a drug. The people who get into the illicit drug trade are in the illicit tobacco trade. Cigarettes do not come in with the clouds and rain on the people; they are brought here in shipping containers. Shipowners and shipping agents are the people who should be forced, through really punitive fines and penalties, of €500,000 or €1 million, to police what is shipped...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I am sharing life stories.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Haddington Road Agreement Implementation (15 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions his Department has had with all bodies in relation to efficiency contracts (details supplied) for academic institutions under the Haddington Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43073/13]

Child Sex Offenders (Information And Monitoring) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Those are my few thoughts on what is a good Bill which the Government should support.

Child Sex Offenders (Information And Monitoring) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I know the Minister of State did not write his speech.

Child Sex Offenders (Information And Monitoring) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I thank Deputy Naughten for introducing this Bill. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, for attending the House for this debate. I am sorry to hear that the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, cannot be here because there is a Cabinet meeting. That is one of the drawbacks of the way we try to tackle a large volume of work and the mechanics of getting it done. ...

Second Report of the Convention on the Constitution (Women in the Home): Statements (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I will let Deputy Mac Lochlainn know when he has used ten minutes. I will give him some latitude.

Second Report of the Convention on the Constitution: Statements (10 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Yes.

Second Report of the Convention on the Constitution: Statements (10 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I am giving the Deputy additional time.

Second Report of the Convention on the Constitution: Statements (10 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I am delighted to give the Deputy more time.

Topical Issue Matters (10 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Paudie Coffey - the challenges facing the manufacturing sector here highlighted by the 74 jobs losses in Honeywell, Waterford; (2) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - the accommodation needs of those in recovery from addiction; (3)...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Academic Publications (10 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of articles published, broken down by institution and year for each institute of technology and university for the years 2011 and 2012, where each article is published in a journal published by Public Library of Science publishers and the fees paid for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42931/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Academic Publications (10 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of articles published, broken down by institution and year for each institute of technology and university for the year 2011 and 2012, where each article is published in a journal whose publisher appears on Beall's list of predatory open access (details supplied); the fees paid for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I wish to lend my absolute and unconditional support to that proposition. We need imagination in this country. The west and north west represent about one-sixth of the overall population. That is 700,000 people. If one looks at what Israel did to convert the desert to fertile and irrigated land that produces fruit, vegetables and crops, one sees that it did so with water. Our west and...

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Tough love.

Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Report Stage (9 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: I welcome the opportunity to give my full support for Deputy Naughten's amendment. It is well worded and its thrust is right. As Deputy Colreavy has mentioned, the north and the north west have justifiably merited the arrival of gas into the region for business, production and home consumption purposes. It makes sense that the Minister should be in a position to outline in a report before...

Order of Business (9 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: Under secondary or subsidiary legislation, will the Government ensure the Central Bank of Ireland, the liquidator of IBRC and NAMA, all of whom are involved, undertake an immediate and thorough investigation of the situation highlighted in the Delaware court case in the USA of widespread illegal overcharging of interest on borrowers' loans by Anglo Irish Bank-IBRC to a sum in the order of...

Order of Business (9 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: It is very important because NAMA is selling loans with this contaminated interest.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Peter Mathews: There was no negotiation on that; it had to happen for us even to reach the last drawdowns of the assistance programme. There has been talk about us exiting the programme as if it is a positive step we will take. It is not. The people need to know that means we are just down to the last drawdowns - we are down on empty now on the loans. They have left us on empty and it is not right. The...