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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: We have four minutes to deal with a supplementary questions and replies.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the delays in processing carer's allowance applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41815/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (2 Oct 2012)

Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a 24 hour support service for mental health services as there is currently no weekend or night time Health Service Executive service for those suffering from depression [41340/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: I appreciate the kindness of the Vice Chairman in letting me ask one or two questions. On debt sustainability, I know the focus has been on sovereign debt. However, Ireland is the country which has been most crushed and burdened by debt, even more so than Japan. The paper produced by the Bank for International Settlement economists for a conference in Wyoming in the United States in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: This is very simple, although nobody is saying it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: The Chair should gag me the next time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: I will, but, first, I ask that the issue of household debt be examined because that is the problem the country has.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: I appreciate the kindness of the Vice Chairman in letting me ask one or two questions. On debt sustainability, I know the focus has been on sovereign debt. However, Ireland is the country which has been most crushed and burdened by debt, even more so than Japan. The paper produced by the Bank for International Settlement economists for a conference in Wyoming in the United States in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: This is very simple, although nobody is saying it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: The Chair should gag me the next time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: I will, but, first, I ask that the issue of household debt be examined because that is the problem the country has.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: The Vice Chairman might be next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: What is the validity of the debt?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: No; it is a truthful question. Since it was legal for people to own slaves in the Congo, they could argue that it was right to have and crush slaves. The debt has no validity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: That is when one pushes the plunger on the dynamite of the euro system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: Including household and corporate debt raises it even higher.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: Are they aware what 2.5% on the last corporate tax returns would raise for the economy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: It would raise almost €700 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: Of course, the Department of Finance provided a caveat-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Peter Mathews: Excuse me, Chairman. They provided the caveat that these could have other internal repercussions - the sort mentioned earlier - and one does not know which way the balls will go. I do not believe that.