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Topical Issue Debate: Mobile Telephony (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: I add my thanks to the Minister, her Department, her officials, the Opposition spokespersons and to everyone who took part in the debate. I am sorry that I was only able to attend a limited amount of it. The Bill is the full expression of how realities have changed in our country and among our people. It is indicative of the wider family that is Ireland with all the people who have come...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: The reason a register is of such great importance is that this particular type of statutory declaration vests responsibilities of guardianship and is not only a statutory declaration of fact. Property vests title, ownership and the responsibilities and obligations of owning property. The Land Registry was needed because otherwise we would be left with the mess of human business intercourse....

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: The Land Registry is a case in point.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: The legislation is an opportunity to address it.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: I support Deputy Mac Lochlainn. It is a bit like the Land Registry as it solved a lot of problems when land and properties were registered centrally. Previously title documents were lost. We are talking about a statutory declaration, which by its nature the State protects. Given the importance of what the declaration protects, it ought to be on a central register to keep it safe. That is...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: This is a large, comprehensive and complex Bill. Having listened to the most recent contributions of Deputies Shortall, Boyd Barrett and Mattie McGrath, I would suggest that it boils down to the reality of situations. If we try to create a framework for fairness and responsibility, having recognised the truth and reality of the situation, then we are on the road to respect for the...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: I wish to address the point made on the amendment to the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act and the Personal Insolvency Act. I do not wish to labour the point, but I also wish to follow on from what the Minister very ably mentioned today, namely, her stated support for Deputy Willie Penrose's proposed one-year bankruptcy legislation. I urge her to complete the readmission of Deputy...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: The Minister could arrange two readmissions, one to her party and the second to the Cabinet in order that this Bill could be fast-tracked.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: This is extremely important.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: The reason this is very important is that 120,000 human souls are deeply traumatised, including children. There is no point in bringing in legislation about children when under our noses thousands are today under deep, traumatic stress because their parents are under even further stress. The number of human beings concerned would fill two to three Aviva stadiums.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: Will the Government co-sign the Bill and get it through as quickly as it did the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act yesterday? How about that?

Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: The Government should join him.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: The Government should stop considering the matter and take action.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: He left the parliamentary party.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: He was not a member of the parliamentary party.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: Perhaps the Minister should do that.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.

Personal Solvency (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (11 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.

Personal Solvency (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (11 Mar 2015)

Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.