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- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: Of course I am. The great stupidity of this Government, which has the largest majority of any in the history of the State, is that it looks in the wrong areas to try to rectify the great wrongs that have occurred in society. Civility has gone out the door and this week single parents have had their social protection ripped from under their feet. The people of Greece have been told to take...
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: I am doing that.
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: Thank you. At least you have admitted you were not listening. That has been the problem since March 2011. The Government had an agenda then and has stuck by it. This is part of the agenda. It is all linked, through the Chair.
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: And the Bill. The Bill is a symptom in the same way the measles come out on the skin. It is a rash. The body politic and society is still ill and diseased. It is very easy to see it. As was said only a few minutes ago, small businesses have not been consulted. I am not getting telephone calls about small businesses not being paid, but I am getting phone calls about social protection,...
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: I am setting the context for the detail that is in the Bill. We know there will be an abolition of prison sentences for situations that are not even arising. This is "The Truman Show". The Government is imagining that things are happening which are not. It is ignoring things that are happening and not addressing them. That is why neither the Minister nor the Minister of State opposite...
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: When a doctor sees a rash on the body, he knows there is a possibility of measles. We are seeing the rash all over Europe, but our Government thinks because the establishment has said so that the solution lies in the direction of imposing more pain on people who are already vulnerable. It does not. If one wants to stop the disease, one must stop what one is doing that is adding to it....
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: There is today.
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: As a matter of fact, he has not been here for two hours.
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: My name was not, correct. That is why I said the demand for speaking slots was light.
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: The state of the Dáil is interesting too.
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: However, this legislation has been rushed in. Is not that right?
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: I am sticking to the subject matter.
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: The Ceann Comhairle has just arrived.
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: I get more and more bewildered with what goes on in this place. I really do, with respect.
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: The point is this; there has been an abject failure to deal with the disease in our society and economy on a descending order of priority. There are 100,000 mortgages in deep distress, which is far larger scale stuff than is being addressed in the Bill under discussion.
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: I know.
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: It is as if a painter coming into a house who sees the foundations are crumbling still points out that the paint is flaking on the ceiling. Which is the more important?
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: But our society is creaking?
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: Single parents are being deprived this week of money to put food on their tables. It is all connected. It is joining up the dots, as they say. Approximately 100,000 mortgages are in deep distress, which is about 400,000 human beings in deep and unnecessary distress for four years.
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Peter Mathews: That is good, at least. The Ministers were not listening by their own admission earlier.