Results 3,001-3,020 of 4,928 for speaker:Peter Mathews
- 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 is not just a matter of providing against the outcomes of risk events, it is also about managing the risks, which is exactly the work the OPW is doing, namely, building up flood------
- 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: Yes. Other ways of managing risk include the provision of culverts, building up the banks of rivers and doing whatever else is required, including relieving flows on rivers during flash floods. All such activity manages the risk and while the investment to prevent them is upfront it can have a big pay-off.
- 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: By the way, the turnover of Irish Public Bodies Mutual Insurances Limited is in the region of €400 million a year. It is a lot of money if it has surplus reserves of between 5% and 10% a year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Closures (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: That was a good question, but we have run out of time and must move on to other questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Lending (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Sorry, we have run out of time. I remind the House that the time for supplementary questions and answers is limited to four minutes. The reason I announce there are two minutes remaining is to provide a guideline on the remaining time available.
- 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: Before the Deputies leave-----
- 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: As I have stated previously, both at meetings of this committee and in the Dáil, we are trying to get the country out of a hole. Perhaps, therefore, we might park the grandstanding and engage in honest endeavour. I appreciate the Minister's position but I do not agree with everything the Government parties have done. That is a matter of record.
- 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: On a serious note and because the financial constraints under which we are operating arose as a result of tradition in the way matters of accounting and the Estimates process are dealt with, as the Minister stated we should try to make the effort to prorate the 2%. The latter may only be a temporary move and the Minister may be required to revisit this issue. Our discussion of the Revised...
- 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 was 40% of GNP.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: 342. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide consideration to a matter (details supplied) in respect to her Department's scheme to help those in mortgage arrears; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18275/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: 681. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to a previous Parliamentary Question, if he will confirm the future of the eastern bypass; if works will no longer begin on the bypass; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18677/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (23 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: 681. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to a previous Parliamentary Question, if he will confirm the future of the eastern bypass; if works will no longer begin on the bypass; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18677/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: An excellent suggestion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: We could scope it out a little more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: I welcome the witnesses. Mr. Sheridan is director of consumer protection under the office of the regulator, as distinct from the Governor of the Central Bank. Does his area of responsibility include consumer regulation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: That is the way the relationship stands today but am I correct to say that formerly Mr. Sheridan's role would have been more in the area of regulation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: Sometimes it is easier to understand what is happening now when one knows where it came from. It is like studying the etymology of Mr. Sheridan's position. The banks are still bust and his colleague, Ms Fiona Muldoon, has stated that 50% of SMEs' €50 billion worth of exposure to the banks is distressed, impaired or non-performing based on the original terms of the credit financing. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: I ask Mr. Sheridan and his colleagues to remind the banks openly that this is the case. They should announce it in print, on radio and television so that the customers of the banks can take note of it. They should not feel deferential or pushed around when they are negotiating honestly and openly on what they are capable of repaying from their existing incomes and revenues. In respect of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)
Peter Mathews: It was 17 years ago.