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- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: Two big tomes with coloured covers were distributed to the House yesterday by the respective Ministers of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform. I really had to fight my way through them. In the case of the finance budget, headline figures that should have been in the introduction were buried deep down. These are headline figures about what the amount of GDP and GNP will be. These...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (14 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: The police and the Customs people will need the resources to police the illegal cigarettes industry. As the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Reilly, has said, producing cigarettes is like producing a death product. Let us imagine cars were made without brakes and a person had to take his chances knowing that 50% of the users in a certain amount of years were going to die for...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (14 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: This is a health issue, but the measure before the House is going to raise €53 million in revenue. Some of this money should be dedicated to screening for breast cancer among women in the age group up to 65 years.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: Shame.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: Shame.
- Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: Boring.
- Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: In our equal society.
- Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: What about the pension funds?
- Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: Sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I wonder whether the Minister of State has an answer to a question. He may wish to comment on it. I refer to my opening remarks of welcome and good wishes to the Minister of State and to Deputy Twomey as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Finance and Public Expenditure. Perhaps this is an opportunity for me to ask whether there is any chance that the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Budget 2015 (9 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: That is the problem.
- Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: Their bosses are the problem.
- Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: Name one.
- Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: Citigroup fired 50,000 people in one weekend.
- Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am glad to be able to give a cascade of welcome to both the Minister of State in his new position and on his first Bill, and also to the incoming chairman of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Twomey, who was elected the other day, a committee which I feel very saddened I was expelled from by the Government, along with my membership of the Joint Committee...
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: There was a full moon last night.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: A Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: Following on from the matter Deputy Pearse Doherty raised regarding the legislation for credit policy that the Government has under consideration, I will offer the Taoiseach an operational template for best lending practice and mortgage lending policy to avoid a credit-fuelled residential property bubble.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: I prepared the template approximately six months ago and it could be helpful. It is a one-pager.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Data (8 Oct 2014)
Peter Mathews: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for each higher education institution for each year since 2004, the percentage of persons who at examination for a PhD fail this examination; the percentage of persons enrolled in masters degrees who fail; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38352/14]