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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: That is the reality.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: To clarify, it was a conscientious objection. It was not just a-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: Never judge a book by its cover.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: In the context of the questions raised, I am a newcomer to the Dáil and I am very honoured and privileged to serve the people - the whole people - of this country. However, I was shocked last year when, for example, in the Seanad and Dáil debates on the proposed abolition of the Seanad, a weird situation seemed to arise where the debates were not meaningful but were meaningless...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: When you are the new boy in the class, you do not object.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am a Member of this Dáil, like you.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: How dare the Minister of State say that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: There was the wonderful proposal to abolish the Seanad, if the Deputy remembers.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (11 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm further to the special liquidator of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation's statement (details supplied) to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform that the partner leading the valuation work was from PwC in London and that any PwC people could not have had a prior relationship with IBRC; if he will clarify whether the...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: I have only one more sentence. What kind of message would the Irish people be sending to Europe if we sent such representatives to do our bidding? Here is my last sentence.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: The failure of this Government to include a debt write-down of approximately €50 billion from Europe as the overriding priority underpinning all our engagements with our European counterparts is a failure that will cost the Irish taxpayer dearly. We need to get our money back from Europe because if we do not, my children, the Minister's children and our children's children will face...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: The international investors and foreign newspaper writers who backslap the Government for restoring the international credibility of the country, are the same people captured by the financiers who profited in the billions from the taxes of Irish workers. This country will sink as quickly has it has risen from the ashes unless we achieve a write-down on our debt generated by bank losses. I...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: Yet, yet, yet. We have not heard the voices of the Government. Let us get real here. The people had a decade of platitudes and false dawns, which resulted in what the IMF has called the single largest financial crisis in human history. That is quite an accolade of failure that the previous Government oversaw. This Government has stabilised the economy using the plans of others. It has...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: It does not matter because our bond yields are cheap and the focus now is on getting people to spend more money, as well as getting property prices to rise again. When Wilbur Ross, Fairfax and Kennedy Wilson came to these shores, the type of green that filled their hearts was not the shamrock we will all be proudly wearing in a few days' time. It was the green with George Washington's...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: I welcome the opportunity to make a statement on the Government's priorities for the year ahead. It would be absurd not to say there has been a degree of stabilisation across areas of national endeavour. However, that stabilisation is based on a plan agreed with and imposed by the troika and the previous Government that found itself in a panic crisis. There are no great marks for taking a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: Has a financial institution the right to say it does not wish a case to go to oral hearing because it wants the case to be dealt with as a file?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: That is good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: I have in mind a case in which the complainant is very well prepared for an oral hearing but the response has been a decision to deal with it as a file case. Can the complainant insist on an oral hearing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: There is a lottery element to how the case is determined.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: In the realities of life, the ombudsman has to deal with a deluge of cases. It takes time and work to prepare for an oral hearing. It is easier to be able to control the digestion of a case on a file review basis but it may not be the way to get to the kernel of the situation, particularly where it would be interesting and very instructive to hear the evidence, to hear how a David can take...