Results 521-540 of 4,928 for speaker:Peter Mathews
- Rural Coastal Communities Report: Motion (10 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: I am doing that. However, there is no point in echoing the detail of what Deputies Martin Ferris, Pringle, Doyle, Ó Cuív or Mitchell O'Connor have said. They have put their critiques on the record, from the advantaged position of understanding it and having first-hand experience of this.
- Rural Coastal Communities Report: Motion (10 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: My point is that, like me, many other Deputies come from the metropolis, and they are hurrying in one direction. They are monoline thinkers and monoline contributors to the powerful and vested interests of the country, where the resources are concentrated towards multinational corporations, taxation and so forth. Out on the coast, within the 12 mile limit, there is the conjunction of the...
- Rural Coastal Communities Report: Motion (10 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: I would like to congratulate Deputy Doyle and his sub-committee on the production of this report. While I admit that I have not read it, the Members who have contributed to today's debate have enabled me to capture the essence of the report and its understanding of where we stand as an island country. All of the contributions have been hugely instructive and very revealing to me as someone...
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: The connections are important as people should understand them. I am not saying I have a monopoly on wisdom as I do not. This is an understanding that I wish to share. It is humble sharing. If I give the impression that I see myself as having the one and only correct view, I do not. However, I am sharing an understanding. It is like a body floating in water because it is lighter. It is...
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: This is important. It begins with the allocation of space, resources and money to carry out research to carry out parliamentary functions. Suddenly it is whipped without thinking. Taking resources from somebody who has been duly elected, man or woman, young or old, is not right. Anybody can see it is utterly not right. I will do whatever it takes to ask the Minister to do the right...
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: The corollary is what you are saying.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: I know by definition if there is a debate there are two viewpoints, if not many more. If the Minister paid attention to the events that took place, he would see the circumstances of how they took place, what the outcomes were and who had the power and authority to do what was done, and to do it suddenly like a field marshal. I will not use another phrase for it but it is not good behaviour....
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: This amendment is a good safeguard for fairness and equality for Members of a Parliament. We, rather than parties, have been elected as Members of Parliament. Parties are the umbrella or playing colours of individuals elected to Parliament. It is sometimes good to see what has happened in reality in order to diagnose a problem or explore the possibility of fairness and better conduct in...
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: The existential crisis in Europe for 28 member nations is becoming increasingly intense and acute and the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance are there. Last Sunday's result from the Greek referendum showed-----
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: We may have legislation rushed through in the next week.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: It is not about what happens in Greece. I have said-----
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: This is unbelievable. It is affecting-----
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: -----28 member nations, of which we are one.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Taoiseach may be getting on a plane next weekend to deal with the existential survival of the European project.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: And you want to shut me up.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Order of Business will include what may happen next-----
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: Is this place really out of touch with what is going on?
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: When is the debate going to be?
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: On Greece.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: There should be.