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- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Minister knows what I am saying. Do not play with words. This is a reality. It needs to be addressed.
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: You are.
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I did not say that. You are not listening.
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: You have a deluded brain. Do you ever listen?
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: What about ICC bank?
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: From reading the Bill and the one-page diagrammatic aid circulated to Members at the beginning of Second Stage, I am of the view that the intentions here are very clear. Whether they are adequate in terms of what is needed and answer the question as to where the economy stands in the context of SMEs is another matter entirely. The strategic banking corporation of Ireland will essentially be...
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: The title, the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014, suggests it is the arrival of an institution that will endure. Ownership and control of the institution will lie with the Minister on behalf of the State, which is the people of Ireland. That is the impression given by the framing of the legislation. The funding for the institution will come significantly from KfW and it...
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Philosophy is an investment.
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: They are like the legs one walks on.
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: We should consult Mr. Niclaus Bergmann, chief executive officer of the Sparkhassen, which has 250,000 employees and 29,000 trainee managers across Germany in local and regional areas of banking. The banks are not allowed to trespass on each other, so they understand the businesses to which they are lending. They are lending the deposits of the communities, which give them those deposits...
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. I was very disappointed that the Independent Deputies not belonging to the Technical Group did not get a chance to speak on Second Stage. I am disappointed also that the Bill has been presented hurriedly, although I realise it has been three years on the runway. I am not making criticisms but constructive observations.
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am speaking to the amendment because it refers to the fact that 136,000 households are in mortgage distress. In the presentation made yesterday by Mr. David Hall and the representatives of Grant Thornton, to which Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett referred, they said it was expected that there would be a bloodbath. In fact, there has been a bloodbath. There have been very many suicides, as...
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: These are symptoms which demonstrate our current position. As when one is building, one must clear the site before one can start laying good foundations for a new structure. As Deputy Shane Ross implied in his two anecdotes, the banking system is in bits; it is still banjaxed. "Pillar banks" is a rubbish title to give the banks. Wilbur Ross made €500 million within two years and...
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am sticking to them. All of my points refer to amendments Nos. 1, 11, 13 and 14 directly and indirectly. I did not get a chance to speak on Second Stage. I have 21 years' experience of working in a bank that was funded by local and regional deposits in Ireland and which lent to SME businesses in Ireland. It had 70 years of uninterrupted, slow-growth profit and it educated people to be...
- Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: A sum of €500 million.
- Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Deputy Mick Wallace needs all the time that has been allocated to him.
- Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Exactly.
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: May I ask a question, please?
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I do not have a leader.
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: What is funny?