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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: I thank all three doctors for attending. Dr. Rhona Mahony left us with a huge silence and a question in regard to the X case. The five women who had had abortions, some of them many years ago, who came to speak to us are left with deep scars in the same way that a physical injury leaves physical scars. Their scars have faded, but they have a lot of the answers which this legislation is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: This is a chance to discuss the core of the issue-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: The bad science in Britain has allowed approximately 7 million abortions. That is very bad science, irrespective of Professor Ferguson's research papers. We are talking about the deaths of 7 million people, more than in the Holocaust. In America 55 million lives have been lost. I thank the witnesses for all the work they do to look after people. My wife was very important to me when she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: I have a question. We have heard about mothers and women, death during pregnancy and the need to preserve all life. Of course, it should be so, at all times. I will do anything that is necessary; I will stop my job here to help somebody in order to preserve a life. I mean that. Let us talk in the way we talk to our families across the dinner table. Dr. Holohan has 30 letters behind his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: An awful lot of words have been exchanged in this discussion - professional and expert words and simple words. For clarity, simplicity is needed. One must declutter. I am afraid that we are falling into the professional vanity of confusing and obfuscating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: The Constitution is clear. The doctors have stated that their guidelines give them the sound basis for doing their work. Women and children have been extremely well served.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: People have done their work dutifully and well. Where people have fallen short in their professional capabilities, there have been accidents.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: Yes. Why do the professionals not say clearly and simply that they know what to do if there is a threat to the life of the mother and that they can get on with it? No one has discussed the post-abortion recovery counselling that is needed for those poor, unfortunate girls and women who have gone to England to have abortions. Their voices have only been heard by a few of us. In fact, they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: It was the point made by Deputy Billy Timmins on the foundation and the setting up of the expert group, the mandate-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: I thank Dr. Holohan for his presentation. I want to go straight to the heart of this matter. We are here to uphold the Constitution which provides for the equal right and value of lives of mothers and children. Two points in the discussions this morning come to mind. The first is a question raised, in the first instance, by Deputy Mattie McGrath, which has not been adequately answered. I...

Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: Deputy Peter Fitzpatrick is sharing time with Deputy Brian Walsh.

Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: I call Deputy Finian McGrath. I understand you are sharing time with Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett, with 15 minutes each.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (16 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: 145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans in respect of public sector pay agreements (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23574/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: Through the Chair, where a quantity surveyor certifies an amount of work done by the main contractor, by implication the work carried out by the subcontractor, which is part of that overall work, will have been certified also.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: They carry the liabilities.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: A queue of subcontractors would be lining up.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: The white flag has been raised.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: During the past 40 years the balance of credit power has moved very much in favour of main contractors compared to the past. I remember one of the country's largest contractors used to be clients of ICC Bank and their reliance on loans was much greater in yesteryear than it has become in recent years because they, in turn, receive their credit not from their bank, but from their...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: The objective of Deputy Fleming's amendment is worthy. There is a danger, however, that it could enable a contractor’s competition to effectively put him out of business if there had been, say, a delicacy in his financial affairs. A delay in a recent contract could have been caused by a loss-making contract, just a bump. A competitor could exploit that bump within the 28...