Results 1,921-1,940 of 4,928 for speaker:Peter Mathews
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: Please, Deputy.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: Please, Deputy.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, is sharing ten minutes of her time with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Leo Varadkar. Is that agreed?
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: I determine that it is agreed.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: Deputy Dara Calleary is sharing time with Deputies Tóibín and Pringle, at ten minutes each.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am enjoying it too and thank the Minister.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Peter Mathews: I thank Deputy Flanagan but I am looking forward to hearing his contribution.
- Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I recognise that the Minister has the unenviable task that corresponds with the image in mythology or legend of trying to roll the rock up the hill in terms of the HSE, the Department of Health and the delivery of medicine and nursing to the people of Ireland to the people of Ireland. Deputy Harris spoke about St. Vincent's University Hospital. It is not quite the same as all the other...
- Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: Yes. That order owned the hospital grounds. I grew up in a house at the top of Nutley Lane, off the main Stillorgan Road, and my mother still lives there and I remember that work on the site of the hospital when it was at the early foundations stage was stopped for a few years because there were no funds or resources available from anywhere to continue the building. It then got off the...
- Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I thank the Minister of State and the Department for putting together this overall plan for a new era. I thank the Bills digest office for providing a helpful 46 page document. I do not intend to whinge about the fact that I am being allowed to speak for just three minutes. We need to remember a few things in this context. The modern scenario...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: The bottom line is we cannot vote.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: Those who are voting have not heard anything.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: Respectfully?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Vice Chairman has been an excellent Chair.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am listening to them.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Minister interjected as well. There is an equivalence of conversation.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: The activities cover five years.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Chair is a medically qualified doctor.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: It is an analogy. A doctor looks at symptoms to identify a disease. Deputy Lucinda Creighton has described the symptoms of the disease that is this Parliament, the Oireachtas. It is shameful. I am more than on the back foot; I have been nearly knocked out by the Minister's earlier remarks made to me. I do not pretend to know everything, nor do I pretend-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)
Peter Mathews: I did not describe the Minister as shameful; I said, "it is shameful". The Minister should not frame things unfairly.