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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (13 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49600/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 has not received any social welfare assistance in recent months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50030/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: May I contribute briefly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: I commend our guests on their work. Transparency and clarity about NAMA and other aspects need to be brought into focus.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: It is for the people with Champagne and pearls.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: It is "The spirit of gracious living".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: I had forgotten to make this one point. I note that the Society of St. Vincent de Paul's submission highlights, under the headings of both the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the need to look at tax increases rather than cuts. I respect this. The society, which has a wide reach across the country at every level, sees the effect of these things. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: On the St. Vincent de Paul submission-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: A point that strikes me is the interrelationship between the poverty trap, education traps and the medical situation trap, such as obesity, education and chronic disease arising from alcohol. The suggestion in the submission to increase the minimum price for alcohol is a good idea. I agree with the point about organising the delivery of clinical programmes such as blood testing. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: I have had much to absorb and the conversation between questions and answers has been instructive for me. I sense that, as Mr. Dunne mentioned, there is a framework misfit which has arisen due to the ad hoc nature of the supports evolving from community-based needs. There is a lack of well organised management information, as Dr. McDaid pointed out, to report on where and how money is being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: We can drill down into the core requirements of the needs. Almost all the residential care under the fair deal scheme involves people who have been certified as having dementia or Alzheimer's disease. They are not capable of going back into the community unless there are family members there who do not have full-time employment and can be there all the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: The Chairman takes great cognisance of everything that Mr. Dolan says.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: Does Mr. O'Brien not think that the reduction in production costs of all those enterprises, which was far greater than 2.5% in the past number of years, far outweighs the small step upwards and that they should do the hard sums? I got the answers that I did and was told they would not even blink-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: -----or the advisers because their interests are to hold the line.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: The debt is still too high.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: The common theme presented by all the delegates was a focus on the residential property tax. I said in the previous section that the mortgage element that attaches by way of charge to the properties that are going to be valued is like a financial rather than a physical contamination. Mr. Roland O'Connell would be aware that a physical contamination on a site or a property immediately hits...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: I am asking a question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: They talk about corporation tax.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: They do mention it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Peter Mathews: The figures on foot of a reply to a parliamentary question from the Department of Finance indicate that if the rate was increased by 2.5% - I suggest holding that for seven years - it would raise €670 million. I do not believe any of the top executives of any of the companies here or thinking about coming here would blink at that. That is an issue we must examine because the sacred...