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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: It amounts to the same thing, however, in that local authorities have the power to vary the amount householders will pay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: It seems to me a question of whether one buttons one's jacket this way or that way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: I thank Ms Feehily, Ms Dempsey and Mr. Gladney for their attendance. I apologise for my late arrival as I was in the Chamber for the Topical Issue debate on child care which followed yesterday's "Prime Time" programme. I would have liked to have been in attendance for the full meeting. I have some questions. The first is a simple customer query. When I was filling out my own return I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: I am not sure if it was.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: It does not explain who is the payee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: I got the heebie-jeebies, so to speak, after the Ulster Bank experience when its whole system was locked down for about six weeks. I am old-fashioned; perhaps it is my age.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: My other question is about the issue of the letters to people. In many cases in Dublin in particular, tenants of apartments received the assessment notice or letter. They do not necessarily know who is the landlord because the apartments are let through letting agents. I know a couple of people in the student category or in the early years of their career who have decided that the notice...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: How does the Revenue decide they own it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: Is that a fair presumption? There are very many people in this city who are renting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: My point is that it is necessary to trudge down the letter to paragraph four or five. I am just being practical.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: The cases in question were people who rent their apartments through a letting agency.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: The letting agency deals with that rather than the tenants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: The tenants just deal with the letting agent for all the problems with electricity, heating, lighting, plumbing, the whole lot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: The PPS number may not be included on the lease.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: I am just making the point that people in that age group,18 to 25 years, will have a lot going on in their lives. They give the form to the letting agent because they are not the owner. It then depends on the letting agent whether they will give it to the landlord. I am just asking the Revenue to be aware of this situation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: I have a couple more questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: NAMA could be the mortgagee in possession.
- Topical Issue Debate: Crèche Inspections (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: On the child care preschool services regulations, which are the foundation on which everything is done, there should be national statistics and national inspection reports. That should be a priority. The Minister should get that moving fast. As Deputy Shortall stated, we want action, not words. We also want immediate emergency teams to get into the crèches that failed on inspections...
- Topical Issue Debate: Crèche Inspections (29 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: The fact that 11 Deputies have sought to highlight the alarm that has been raised nationwide on this issue speaks for itself. It is appalling that the most vulnerable citizens were subject to the type of treatment, neglect, bullying, harassment and downright punishment imposed that occurred in a couple of those crèches and which was shown on "Prime Time" last night. I want this issue...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: I call the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, who is sharing time with Deputies Jerry Buttimer and Kevin Humphreys and the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly.