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Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (6 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that all amendments to methodologies and changes to formulas applied by the Central Bank of Ireland during the stress testing process were fully disclosed to and approved by the peer review team appointed by the European Banking Authoroity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38796/11]

Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (6 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the only way in which the methodology applied by the Central Bank of Ireland to the Irish banks in the July 2011 stress tests differed to that prescribed to other European banks participating in the exercise was to take account of the losses forecast by BlackRock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38797/11]

Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (6 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance if the BlackRock forecasts were the only criteria upon which amendments were made to methodologies applied in the stress tests of July 2011; if he will confirm in which other respects amendments were made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38798/11]

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (6 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 350: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will set up a bilateral agreement with Ethiopia, building on the long relationship Ireland has with that country while recognising the 300 adoptive families directly affected by this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38492/11]

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: Tomorrow the Taoiseach is due to head to Brussels for a meeting. If he comes back with a successful result, it will undoubtedly leave the budget in the shade and enable him to reverse the cuts to disability payments that have been the topic of debate during Leaders' Questions in the House. I want to ask him about the alarming reports that have surfaced today, that the President of the...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: I remind the House that President Van Rompuy is an unelected European bureaucrat who is devising a means of bypassing democratic assemblies. Perhaps the Taoiseach might answer for me two brief and specific questions. All 27 countries have had an input into this report. Will he tell me specifically what Ireland's input was? What is Ireland's position on the report? Second, the Taoiseach...

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: I move: That Dáil Éireann demands that the Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny T.D., resist all efforts to force Ireland into a fiscal union at the European Summit in Brussels, and that he refuse to sign up to any treaty changes that hand over our economic sovereignty to a European body. I wish to share time with Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan, Catherine Murphy, Pringle, Wallace and Mattie McGrath.

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: This is an extraordinarily important day for the euro, but it is also an extraordinarily important day for Ireland. We should not confuse the two issues which, although separate, are intertwined. My primary interest lies in the role the Taoiseach will play when he gets to Brussels from Marseilles tonight. I am concerned about what he will do in the interests of Ireland and with ensuring he...

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: The relative merits of the markets in this argument will probably belong in another place. A few minutes ago, the euro dropped in value to $1.29, a 12 month low. The value of shares is falling throughout Europe today, while Italian bond yields are rising. Whatever the merits for Ireland in the deal agreed at the European Council, the European and global markets are giving it the thumbs...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: I will move seats. The IFSC is obviously threatened by the fact that it will compete with the city of London on different terms if the British secure the exemption they seek from any deals on a Tobin tax or other threats in the financial area. If a Tobin tax or financial transaction tax is introduced, as appears to be the intention of the deal, the IFSC will be at a competitive disadvantage....

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: I will take some injury time for the delay caused by interference to the microphone. The deal reached last week threatens the multinational sector and our 12.5% tax rate. A more serious question is where is Ireland's place in Europe. Do we have any friends in Europe? The removal of the United Kingdom leaves us isolated at the table. We may be on the inside but we are on our own. The...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: I wish to address a budget-related matter. In the past week we have seen indications that some of the Government's quangos are showing signs of going walkabout. I applaud the Minister for Health's attempts to keep the VHI in check and to attempt to bring down the proposed premium increase of 50%. However, a more dangerous development is arising of which we are unaware as yet because of the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Shane Ross: I do not accept that the Government can wash its hands of this. The National Transport Authority is an agency with Government appointees on the board. CIE is a semi-State company and also with Government appointees on the board. Both companies are controlled by the Government. They are doing a nice little friendly tick-tack between each other and the Government says it has nothing to do...

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (11 Jan 2012)

Shane Ross: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene to allow those taxpayers struggling financially to be allowed to pay the Revenue an amount per month to the end of the year, in recognition of the fact that there are many people who simply cannot afford the lump sum payments demanded by the State at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41248/11]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (11 Jan 2012)

Shane Ross: Question 594: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will order a review of the system for processing speeding fines, based on the experience of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41249/11]

Private Members' Business. Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Shane Ross: I support the motion. I am astonished that the Government has taken the decision to attack under-privileged people. There are all sorts of ways to cut public expenditure and, to me, this is a foolish and heartless option. I cannot understand how the Government can justify the extravagance in which it indulges in terms of payments to Ministers, Deputies, advisers and Senators and at the...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2012)

Shane Ross: I too welcome the Speaker of the Knesset although I believe he has departed the Chamber. Is the Taoiseach aware of disturbing figures which are emerging about the growth rate for the economy for 2012? Davy Stockbrokers has downgraded its figure on projected growth for 2012 from 1.7% to 0.4%, while Goodbodys has produced a figure of 0.7%, down from 1.2%. Prior to the budget the ESRI...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2012)

Shane Ross: I would be grateful if the Taoiseach would answer the question as to whether he stands by the 1.3% figure. If he does not, it would have serious implications for the budgetary arithmetic and the prospects for the introduction of a mini-budget, sudden taxation measures and future budgets. Will the Taoiseach anticipate or respond to one of the independent commentators, namely, Goodbodys,...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2012)

Shane Ross: I was privileged to be on a delegation of the Technical Group to the troika this week and I have absolutely no doubt that they will give a very good report to the Government today. The question is whether the Government should be looking for, or welcoming, such a good report from the troika. We do not seem to get any payback from this extraordinarily good behaviour on behalf of the...