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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Transaction Tax: Discussion with Department of Finance (2 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: How does Ms McVeigh respond to the ideas and suggestions I am putting forward? What is the position of the Minister, for example? Any Minister might feel out of his or her depth when dealing with matters of this nature. That is fair enough. Let us encourage people to speak plain English to each other in order that we might develop frameworks and designs and identify both our purposes and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Transaction Tax: Discussion with Department of Finance (2 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: I have a final question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Transaction Tax: Discussion with Department of Finance (2 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: England should be challenged-----
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Expenditure (2 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent by institution, in each year since 2008, on rebranding or brand repositioning for each university and institute of technology here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41243/13]
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: No. 35 on page 1436 of the Order Paper is a motion tabled by the Minister for Finance, with four amendments tabled by Deputies of the House. It was put on the Order Paper on 12 February, debated on 13 and 14 February and adjourned to be resumed. It has not been called since. Is it possible for this debate to be resumed on the basis that there has been a change in circumstances of the...
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: This is a most pressing issue. Last week the Fiscal Advisory Council spoke about the national debt being at 122% of GDP, which put it in third place after Greece and Italy. The paper ignored the fact that private household debt and SME or non-financial corporate debt taken together with national debt puts Ireland in the worst position in the OECD.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: This is crucial. In the meantime, the Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill, which had to go through the Seanad and the Dáil to be brought to the people, has passed. It was brought in under a very strict Whip system so that Deputies and Senators who advocated the retention of the Seanad voted against their own debate. Another Bill passed...
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: It has not been resumed and is unresolved.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: They are not over. The consequences are not over.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: All inconclusive and open questions.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: We should have been speaking about it for seven months.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: And since then in May, when other issues occurred.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: The promissory notes were a given.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: -----and was rightly castigated by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in The Daily Telegraph.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: He does.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: I was placed here.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: They are not giving out to the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Deputies are not giving out to the Taoiseach. He is not listening.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: I have known the Taoiseach for an equally long time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Peter Mathews: We are trying to serve the people.