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- 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: These 24 visitors did not even blink.
- 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: Sorry, I did not hear the Vice Chairman. I beg his pardon.
- 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: Does Professor McHale agree?
- 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: Realism. I am not afraid. If I was afraid, I would not be saying this. However, everybody else is afraid and that is why, as I stated, they walk on eggshells when the eggshells are well and truly broken
- 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 a necessary good. Does Professor McHale know why? It is because all the bank debt is now national debt and the creditworthiness of the nation is-----
- 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 thank the delegation for attending the committee and for the papers they presented and the work they do. The key point I noted that resonated across the paper was that debt sustainability remains fragile. I concur with almost 90% of what Deputy Higgins said earlier. The council’s brief is macroeconomically scaled. It does not go into the branches or the boughs of the trees;...
- 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 have waited two hours. I think the audience has the patience.
- 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: We are in a conversation with these very kind visitors. The conversations cannot all go on one side.
- 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 know you could.
- 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 am going to ask the question when I have had the opportunity to lay out the tray. A recent Harvard advanced management programme was addressed by top-tier people including myself, Mr. Barry O’Leary from the IDA, Mr. John Herlihy from Google, and Mr. Austin Hughes from KBC Bank. I made my short presentation honestly and there were no holds barred, no holds that I was afraid to go...
- 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: Two Opposition speakers contributed first.
- 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: Will the Chairman indicate who is next on the list of speakers? I would like to know where I stand.
- Order of Business (27 Sep 2012)
Peter Mathews: In the light of several contributions today and yesterday on murders and violent crime, it would be timely for the House to consider either adding to proposed legislation that is in process or introducing a new Bill to give the Garda Síochána - the guardians of the peace - the equipment it requires to maintain peace. Our streets and homes have been invaded and destroyed and it is...
- Order of Business (27 Sep 2012)
Peter Mathews: I refer to all crime related legislation currently before the House. We need to address this issue quickly.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (26 Sep 2012)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) in Dublin 24 must take a taxi to and from school and leave an hour early; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40758/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Funding (26 Sep 2012)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a decision has been reached in respect of funding for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40874/12]
- Topical Issue Debate: ESB Disconnections Policy (25 Sep 2012)
Peter Mathews: I will allow Deputy Doherty ten seconds.
- Topical Issue Debate: ESB Disconnections Policy (25 Sep 2012)
Peter Mathews: That was 25 seconds.
- Topical Issue Debate: ESB Disconnections Policy (25 Sep 2012)
Peter Mathews: I am afraid the Minister has run out of time. We will move on to the supplementary question.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Sep 2012)
Peter Mathews: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to build or relocate a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40696/12]