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- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Minister is talking to one of the wounded.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: It is an Irish Life policy by the way and the ---
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: The lender is PTSB. This is important.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: There is about €70 million of loans being repaid.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I am off to lick my wounds now.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I thank the Chairman for his kind offer.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I have paid attention to what the younger Deputies have said. I have been through the experience of raising a family. I do not see maternity benefit as something that justly falls within an income tax assessment. One could take this type of thinking further and claim that the help provided by maternal and paternal grandmothers is a benefit-in-kind to families and should be taxed at the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: This is how we get equality.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I will put my gag back on.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: There is post-natal depression and lots of things that people have not costed.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: Deputy Boyd Barrett also made the point correctly as regards incomes-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I want about 30 seconds more.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: That is what I am talking about.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: Every budget should have a fairness index which is properly constructed and which deals with incomes and realised capital gains. This should be worked out from first principles with fairness written all over it. At the moment it is all over the place. The books on each Finance Act are getting thicker and thicker. The tax return known as form 11 is now 23 pages long. People are paralysed...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: I apologise for my late arrival. I thank the Minister and his officials for doing the really awful job that is trying to repair the leaky ship of the Irish economy while it is still in motion. I know that it is not an easy job. However, I also know that when one is trying to enact finance legislation to allow one to collect and spend money for a year, one's difficulties are compounded by...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Application (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the property tax and the non principal private residence charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11863/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to replace prefabricated classes with a permanent structure at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11712/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding pension payments in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11727/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an appeal for jobseeker's allowance will be made by the deciding officer in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11714/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Remuneration (5 Mar 2013)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the numbers and grades of persons, by university, who have been offered a post and have subsequently not taken the post as a result of discussions on salary levels each year since 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11445/13]