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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Absolutely. Are the Minister and his officials familiar with Reggie Middleton?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Does the name Reggie Middleton ring a bell?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Well done to the Minister on getting a grand gain of just over the €1 billion mark. I believe he is right to save that in order to look at the possibilities for capital programmes and capital expenditures. As they are non-recurring, it is easier to keep the tiller steady on the current account. On the debt levels and debt maturities, the financial press talks about skyscraper...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: It is a bit like, in ordinary banking terms-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Just one sentence. When one gets a package of loans made available from creditors, there are disbursement programmes. As one gets the money on the terms and conditions advanced, the terms and conditions normally keep obtaining after the loans are fully disbursed. That is the programme of disbursement. Then, there is the continuing operation of the State, which is different. We owe it to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: On that-----
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that no more cuts are made to staff number in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 14; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19923/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students (details supplied) who sat the leaving certificates since the year 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20126/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students (details supplied) who sat the junior certificate since the year 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20127/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (30 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: 313. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for rent allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20115/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: With the indulgence of the Chair, I will make a brief contribution on taxation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: This is the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and this is a policy matter for the country; it hit the entire economy for seven years because of the banking sector and the regulator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Dr. Donovan is dead right and I thank him for his work. Thanking people takes up time and I am being cornered again in a five-minute bundle, with people before having 25 minutes. I have listened to everybody else. That is the irony of these committees. If I stay in here, listen and respect other people's views, when everybody else disappears and I want to make a genuine contribution, I cannot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Small and medium enterprises had €50 billion in exposure, and 50% of it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: These are the highlights that must be amended.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: I completely respect the Chair. That is why I am here all this time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: The delegates should be afforded an opportunity to use the rest room if they wish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: I would like them to feel no physical tension while listening to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Would any of the delegates like to use the rest room first?