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- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Minister has the money.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I welcome the Minister and his officials. This is all new territory for me. I am learning. Deputy Fleming has been all over this and so has the Chairman in the past. Even the word "savings" usually implies that one has spent what one thought one would spend and one did not have to spend as much as expected. However, what we mean by savings in this context, is non commenced expenditure.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: That is correct, but it means also that the project on which one was planning to spend money has not begun or has not been finished.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: The physics have not been completed.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: Savings usually implies that it is after everything has been done, that one has saved a certain amount.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: A better description is unspent money.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: Each Department has its capital expenditure budget and its current expenditure budget. I must begin to get my head around what goes into capital. Should repairs and renewals be under the capital heading? From day one machinery has always been seen as capital expenditure. If one must repair it and so forth, this is done to keep the machinery operating. It is, therefore, a little like a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: We have discussed the four months grace period for the termination of the two schemes which allows for the continuation of payments for a four-month period to people who are in receipt of payments under the schemes. The processing of applications that had been submitted to date will also continue. That is a recognition of what is practically and pragmatically feasible within the confined of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: That is a good summary of the position. I agree it is great to see that members of the public have such interest and are prompted by events such as the The Gathering. However, as Senator O'Keeffe has indicated, members could regard it as being closed from the perspective of further research.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: That sounds like a very good course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I am sure he was aware at the time that during the hearings held by the other joint committee, there was an opportunity to make submissions. All parties and people in the country could make submissions if they so wished.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: Both those petitions were in the area of natural resources. It is interesting to see the importance of getting, to use that phrase, the playing pitch properly marked out and understood and having everyone who will be affected properly informed. The fact the company has withdrawn its licence means there will be a much more focused effort to get corrected those starting points and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: That is agreed. The joint committee will give them a total panorama of the position.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (26 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in relation to the provision of free general practitioner care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9800/13]
- Other Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (21 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: One can never get too much of a good thing.
- Other Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (21 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I thank the Deputies for their questions, and the Minister and Minister of State for their replies.
- Other Questions: Skills Shortages (21 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: There is a question to follow.
- Other Questions: Skills Shortages (21 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I call Deputy Catherine Murphy because she asked the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (21 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: There are four minutes overall for the questions and answers.
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I call Deputy Ó Snodaigh, who has three minutes.