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- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Tánaiste should get over it.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: With its eyes closed.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Their boards destroyed them.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: That is a shame.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: In order that we might be involved in framing it.
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: I will be very brief. The Minister of State knows that there are only two sources to pay taxation: the income of people and the income of corporates. For the last four and a half years, the corporates - whose incomes have risen - have paid nothing incremental towards the cost of recovery. Nothing.
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Three and a half years ago, I told the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, that there should be a 2.5% levy on corporate profit tax for the multinational corporations or NMCs, which would have brought in €2 billion a year. To date, it would have brought in €6 billion which is 60% of the cost of restructuring the country's water systems. They are the big picture things.
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Today during Leaders’ Questions, Deputy Catherine Murphy rightly said that was what should be done. When I, with her, Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly, Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, MEP and Nessa Childers, MEP, told the Governor of the Central Bank in July that the guarantee was like an insurance guarantee and, therefore, voidable and what had had happened as a result was wrong, he...
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: We made an impression.
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: We know we made an impression. Do you want to know why?
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: When we told Bundestag finance committee members that, if the scale equivalent of the losses in our system put on the Irish people was actually put on the German people, it would have come to €1.3 trillion and their eyes were like saucers. It was not the established members of our finance committee who made this point but some of us outliers who had paid our own way to the meeting....
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: We have arrived once again at that time of year when we take stock of the financial position and resources of the country and consider what the Government needs to collect in revenue and how it will spend it. Unfortunately, the language of this presentation is one of total confusion and complexity. Individuals and lobby interests zone in on the particular part of the jigsaw that affects...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: She did not understand them.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Dream on.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Under duress.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: Shame.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: There may be more about preventing haircuts.
- Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: I was older.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Peter Mathews: I would like to begin by making some observations and asking some questions in this big context. The officials are here to give overview of the banking sector in Ireland. That is their calling card and they have kindly given us a great deal of material - financial details and percentages, etc. - running to over 80 pages. I have tried to bring everyone back to our core responsibility of who...