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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: I apologise.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: Gambling causes such problems too.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: I did not make up what I said. I was told by Mr. Gerhard Schick.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: They think we are doing fine.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: This questions and answers session on the Cabinet sub-committee on social policy has been instructive. It is the stark core on which our discussion should be, particularly with the upcoming October budget. The inequality is measurable. It is not an opinion or impression. Rather, it is data based. I hope the Taoiseach got the chance to read Fr. Peter McVerry's opinion or analysis piece...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: Houses-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: I met Mr. Gerhard Schick, deputy chairman of the German finance committee, for an hour and a half or an hour and three quarters on Monday of last week straight after he arrived on his committee's visit. He had a wrong impression of the 1.5 million people of our 4.5 million population whose lives had been turned inside out. Some 250,000 have emigrated, 385,000 are long-term unemployed and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: I know.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am asking it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: How does this stack up? After I gave the Germans the truthful picture, they told us that we should get a PR firm to tell the German people what the situation was because they had the wrong idea. That is because the senior people who have gone from Ireland to Frankfurt and Brussels have not given a truthful, real-time picture of the situation in this country on many fronts.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: Please, all I am asking the Taoiseach for is courage and leadership.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: For social policy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: He would have to be appointed a Senator first.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am the Taoiseach's preferred target.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: Creditor capitalisation. I told the Taoiseach. The euro system should have bailed in.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: No, just facts.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: I know. I am dealing with some of them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: Has the Taoiseach dealt with any? I have.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Peter Mathews: Some indigenous companies cannot work with it.