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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: The banks should be doing this, and we should force them to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: It is absurd that six years have gone by. That is why we should have nationalised all the banks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: They should all be doing it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: The two stress tests were wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I just completed a case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I realise the time has now run down. I have been here all afternoon and the irony is that six years ago, as Mr. Maguire is aware, I busied myself with a deep analysis of the Irish owned banks in this regard. I am now being asked to mow the Phoenix Park with a scissors. It is pathetic. I thank Ms Sadlier for giving us a good idea of what it is like at the grassroots level. The witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: The reality is that they are bankrupt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: How could it cost €42,000 in rent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: This is how it does not work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: Ms Sadlier is quite correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I have done work on this going back five years, and I want to share it in two minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: With the Vice Chairman's permission, I wish to give to the visitors an analysis backed by balance sheet analysis of the responsibility of the banking sector in creating the credit bubble. The banks created it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I do respect the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I do not force-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I have been ejected from this committee.

Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: What about political donations?

Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: It has to do with political parties and is part of the issue.

Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: It is all part of the same argument.

Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I welcome the Minister. I know we had a bit of tension in our contributions on this matter on Committee Stage. I appeal to the Minister to make a very big effort to ignore my personality, which might be an irritant, and look at the substance of the amendment. As Deputy Timmins pointed out, it is only right and proper that the clawback of what was called the leaders' allowance in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Collection (1 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: 342. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason for an increase in the total cost of motor tax when paying it quarterly as compared with paying it annually (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14932/14]