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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: Sometimes they do. The consolidated balance sheet is on one page, the consolidated profit and loss account is on one page and the consolidated fund statement is one page, and there are notes supporting it. However, the architecture is there and that is what we should have. We should have it that there are 166 and 60 Members of the Dáil and Seanad, respectively, and in columns and...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: Will political parties be included?

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: This Bill flows from it. Unfortunately the timing is back to front. I hope I am lucky in the draw. I mean it when I say that everybody can have a spring in their step. When we had statements earlier today, none of the Minister's colleagues were in the House. The public think we watch it on the monitors. While Members might do so, they do not get the chemistry of the situation. People...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: Those are the precursors, the reminders and the memoranda following it. Let us wake up the conscience of the country. Let us get the Constitution infused. In his contribution Deputy Bannon referred to Article 28.4.1° of the Constitution, which states: "The Government shall be responsible to the people of Ireland." That is fine, but the Government is a tight little circle and can get...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: As the memorandum accompanying the Bill fleshes out the details I recommend that Deputies read it. I hope it will be drawn. The Bill before us flows from the one that waits to be drawn and discussed.

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: This a landmark moment. The previous business, which was unnecessarily truncated at an important point of questioning, flows into the debate on the Protected Disclosures Bill 2013. This debate is really a subset of the discussion we have been having all day. A culture of power and entitlement has brought forward the disclosures-----

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am picking up on where I stopped the last day. We are looking at the whole area of protected disclosures, which includes whistleblowing and bullying in various places, including workplaces, schools, homes, the Dáil and the Seanad. It is all a symptom of the same disease. It is timely for the various components of that disease to be addressed. On the face of it, one would welcome...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: So Mr. Wallace is categorically saying that none of the partners, executives or staff involved in Project Atlas had anything to do with the valuation work ---

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: What about all the senior staff? London people would not necessarily know how to value Irish loans.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: I know from experience ---

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: The question is in the same vein and refers to the people who presented a report on the valuation that was incorrect to the tune of €29.7 billion ---

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: My confidence is low because Oliver Wyman said that Anglo Irish Bank was the best banking model in the world but that same organisation is about to undertake the eurozone banking stress tests, which is extraordinary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: INBS as an entity is outside of the liquidation process in operational terms. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: It is now in the federal courts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: That was a different type of fraudulent charging than the one that is the subject of the federal courts ---

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: It has been evidenced.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: It has been evidenced, though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: I welcome our guests. I have been given a couple of questions to ask and have a couple of my own. Mr. Wallace has acknowledged that PwC was appointed by the liquidator to value the entire loan book. How many of the partners, executives or staff members of PwC appointed by KPMG to conduct the valuations were also partners and senior executives responsible for conducting PwC's Project...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: -----the basis of the interest charges essentially is undermined under new ownership.

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: I thank the Technical Group, People Before Profit and the socialist Members for allowing us, the other Deputies loosely referred to as the Reform Alliance-Independent Members, to support this motion. It is a superbly clear, concrete motion, as Deputy Healy said. That is what I like - it is ordinary English that says ordinary things to which we can commit. Having been educated by the...