Former Fine Gael TD Peter Mathews
“When I was with the finance and public expenditure committee, meeting other committees in the Bundestag, we put to them information of which they were clearly not aware. These people are on the budgetary committee of the Bundestag, with a €300 billion budget.
I put it to them that the loan losses in our banking system were 60% of our national income or GDP. If the same problem had arisen in Germany, it would be a €300 billion part of its GDP. We were being asked, silently, to bear this load, which was wrong.
The ESRI equivalent in Germany was not aware that the three elements of debt in this economy comprised private household debt and non-financial corporate debt as well as the sovereign debt, which is the focus of the fiscal compact.
Our private household debt and non-financial corporate debt is twice the size of that of Greece, …What is happening today is really a shame. We are boxed into the old traditions.”
Peter Mathews, February 12, 2012
In fairness.
Peter Mathews, former FG and Independent TD, dies aged 65 (Irish Times)
Previously: Peter Mathews Goes Rogue
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Thanks fine gael for getting us such a great deal, former European peoples party president Enda Kenny really stuck it up to the Germans..
This is why you’re a gobsh@&e.
Hate FG all you want but have the class to say nothing on this post and spew your tripe on another.
Steve, it is my right to urinate all over your precious cult if I want to, if you don’t like it I hear Joe.ie is full of confused safe space right wing moron liberals..
yip
enda sure showed them (how to laugh their breasticles off)
Am I the only one who is in shock? Peter Mathews was a regular on Tonight with Vincent Browne and always seemed sprightly and in robust good health.
+ 1
very articulate, came across as a gent whether you agreed with him or not
…wasn’t it on Vincent Browne that he made his famous ‘sure we’re all going to end up dead’ contribution to the debate on protection for pregnant women…
Yes it was. People also seem to forget how he robustly defendedFG policy, and the Fiscal Compact Treaty, over and over on the same show – until he lost the party whip.
It’s probably official FG policy..yer going to die anyway. On a waiting list for surgery..meh..you’re going to die anyway. Homeless? .Have you considered that you’ll not be needing a house when you’re dead?
29/05/2013
Sinead Kennedy: “So you think it’s an acceptable risk for a woman to be allowed to continue with a pregnancy even if that pregnancy would damage her health. You think that’s acceptable?”
Vincent Browne: “For the rest of her life. Seriously imperil her health for the rest of her life.”
Peter Mathews: “But sure we’re all going to end up dead anyway.”
Amen to that, Peter, so be it!
what time do you call this to be commenting?
That quote should be put on his headstone. Sorry, that’s terrible.
Too soon?
Nice man. Nasty comment on Twitter from the GEEK GAMER FEMINIST PAGAN