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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy (2 Feb 2016)

Peter Mathews: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance when the losses will be incurred, after he imposed a levy on private sector pensions, and be re-instated on those pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4591/16]

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: In the context of this debate, the questions that arise and the clarifications that are sought, it is important to remember some things. The individual citizen, whether a man or a woman and irrespective of age, is the object of all this legislation. The presumptions that some of the institutions have made in the framing and influencing of this legislation are breathtaking. I offer one...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: The Minister is right. That was very bad-----

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: -----but we are still a little bit bad.

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: As Deputies have said in the last few minutes, if someone has a conviction expunged and forgiven through the passage of time, a shadow or cloud will always remain over him or her. In certain circumstances, the person will have to declare and identify that cloud in a self-assessment. There is something profoundly and deeply uncivil in that. I ask every Member to consider how he or she would...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: What about other spent convictions?

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: I want to raise something, please.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: I want to check with you that I am in order this time. Am I allowed to ask the Taoiseach a question about the programme for Government and promised legislation?

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: At the very outset of this Dáil term the Taoiseach promised the Irish people he would bring about all of his efforts and energies towards burden sharing-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: -----and he introduced a Bill in February 2013 to liquidate IBRC and impose €29 billion at the time - in fact, €32 billion-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: -----on the Irish people. Last week, the Taoiseach was in Davos and was told there was an alternative way-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: I am talking about the liquidation of IBRC, which is still in progress.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: It is-----

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Peter Mathews: -----in the context of-----

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Peter Mathews: I have another topic to raise, so I do not want to waste too much time on this.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: The audit of the European banks showed that the Irish people were unfairly and wrongly burdened-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: -----with the debts and losses of banks.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Peter Mathews: The Taoiseach is in a very powerful position.