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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me to put a question. Before doing so, I acknowledge that the Taoiseach is dealing with a massive agenda and schedule and a huge number of interruptions and unplanned for things that arrive on his desk without warning. I agree that it is a tough position to be in. However, with the country in turmoil, would it not be time better spent by him...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: In regard to the meeting at Davos, we have a situation where people pay $50,000 to attend. As Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett said, these are the elite, the powerful and the privileged. The book I gave the Taoiseach before Christmas, The Price of Inequalityby Joseph Stiglitz, addresses one of the core themes of the conference, namely, that distributive economics has been shown - again, by facts...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am on the Taoiseach's side.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: I hope he takes my suggestions in the constructive spirit in which they are given.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: The reality, however, is that the banks are still out of control.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: Give him a junior ministership.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: And by boards of banks.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: It was a credit bubble.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: They do not understand what is happening at ground level.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: They are remote.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: That is what they do.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: To make a profit.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: Is the Minister of State being serious?
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: I was voted in on my own merit.
- Issue of Writ: Dublin West By-election (1 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: That is like Solomon's choice.
- Order of Business (1 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: I understand, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (1 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: It is on the Order of Business.
- Order of Business (1 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, it is on 150b.
- Order of Business (1 May 2014)
Peter Mathews: It is on the Order of Business, in print.