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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: A great deal of territory has been already covered in terms of the council's mandate, which is very fiscal concentrated, as set out at the bottom of page 1. Professor McHale stated in his presentation that the balance sheet recession shadows everything not alone in Ireland, but abroad. I have been saying that since 2009, including officially on paper to the late Brian Lenihan, in which I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Were they not alternatives rather than options? There is a difference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: An option is an offer. An alternative is a difference of opportunity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Adjustments could be made by taxes as well as cuts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Capable lending?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: It is a difference of approximately 25% of GNP. That is significant.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance his intentions to exempt (details supplied) from a benefit tax. [19420/13]
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: I wish to bring a new pair of eyes and ears to the discussion. Do we envisage that there may be officers or employees who will not live in Ireland while they carry out their officership or their employment contract? The answer is very simple. If they live in Ireland for more than a year then they shall be tax resident here.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Some advisers are different from consultants.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: An employee or an officer of the HSE is not a company or other vehicle who would provide services. An officer is a person. An employee is a person, not a company.
- Topical Issue Matters (23 Apr 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) Deputies Áine Collins and Patrick O'Donovan - the need to defer changes in the assessment of farm assistance; (2) Deputy Barry Cowen - the delay in the construction of new accommodation for Scoil Bhríde, Edenderry and...
- Other Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: The time allocated for this question has expired.
- Other Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: I will allow the Deputy 15 seconds to ask it.
- Other Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: I have given the Deputy some latitude. We must move on to Question No. 96.
- Other Questions: Microenterprise Loan Fund (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: I must ask the Minister of State to conclude.
- Other Questions: Microenterprise Loan Fund (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: I know, but the Minister of State is over time.
- Other Questions: Microenterprise Loan Fund (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: I remind Members that one minute is allowed for questions and one minute for answers.
- Other Questions: Microenterprise Loan Fund (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: It does not matter. The supplementary questions, per Deputy, are for one minute, with one minute for answers and Deputies can come in as many times as they like on that basis.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised) (23 Apr 2013) Peter Mathews: I would like the Minister of State to pass on to the OPW my admiration of the work it does in many areas. I have had experience of it in the past when I worked with ICC Bank. I was aware of much of the work it did and the property portfolios it managed. I commend the Minister of State on the flood risk fund and the work that will be addressed in that regard. Could anything be gained from...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised) (23 Apr 2013) Peter Mathews: It also provides insurance for Aer Lingus and other such bodies.