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European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: I agree with nearly everything Deputy Wallace said. Are the 24 other parliaments sitting today, with their Prime Ministers telling them it is a great victory and relating how they told European leaders the way forward at the Brussels summit on Monday? This is an agreement dictated by one nation to the rest of us. This is a German prescription for Europe. The Taoiseach's speech referred to...

European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: They have no interest in unemployment or at least much less than this nation. Unemployment is not on their horizons.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: I wish to share time with Deputy Healy-Rae.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Then I will withdraw in favour of Deputy Healy-Rae.

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Question 119: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there will be any concession on the household charge made for those paying management fees on residential properties; his plans to hold management companies accountable for the work they carry out in managing these properties to ensure that residents are getting value for money; and if he will make a...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Appointments to State Boards (7 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: The most important and sensitive appointments which the Taoiseach and Government will have to make in this particular sphere are appointments to the boards of banks. As I understand it, in terms of the procedure which the Taoiseach described, public appointments to the boards of banks were advertised eight months ago, in respect of which the banks received approximately 500 applications. A...

Appointments to State Boards (7 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: No appointments have been made to the banks despite the advertising going on in the public arena and the many applications already refused.

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: On behalf of the Technical Group, I express our sympathy to Deputy Ó Cuív on the death of his mother. I welcome the absence of the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, and I wish them well on their trip to the United States. However, I hope they are not saying the same things in the United States as they say here. They started off badly by making...

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: I have a question.

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, when you can keep the junior Member from Dublin South quiet, I will continue.

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Is the Minister aware of the fact that, contrary to what is being said by the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste, Dr. Michael Somers, who was the Government's nominee to the board of Anglo Irish Bank and the head of the NTMA for 20 years, said this week that the bond markets will not tolerate Irish bonds at the designated time in the Government's timetable and that we will need a second bailout?...

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: I am delighted to hear the Minister speaking in defence of bond speculators. It is a slightly reverse situation for her, but that is something to which we are becoming accustomed.

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: However, I cannot accept her statement that the NTMA is somehow an independent body. There is an advisory board for the NTMA. It might not do anything but there are political appointees on that board. They are appointed by the Minister.

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: The chairman is Mr. David Byrne, who gets €50,000 per year. Along with him there is Mr. Kevin Cardiff, who might have just resigned, and Mr. Hugh Cooney, a Fianna Fáil fund-raiser. The idea that the NTMA is independent is utter nonsense. Does the Minister or anyone else in the House agree with the Taoiseach when he says, quite wrongly, that the growth rate this year will be 1.3%? Are...

Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (14 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Question 109: To ask the Taoiseach if he will list all appointments to State boards and agencies made by him since he came to power; the persons appointed; the boards and agencies to which they were appointed; the remuneration details of each appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7829/12]

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (14 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will list all appointments to State boards and agencies made by him since he came to power; the persons appointed; the boards and agencies to which they were appointed; the remuneration details of each appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7823/12]

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (14 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Question 215: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list all appointments to State boards and agencies made by him since he came to power; the persons appointed; the boards and agencies to which they were appointed; the remuneration details of each appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7820/12]

Written Answers — Non-Governmental Organisations: Non-Governmental Organisations (14 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Question 271: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail all cuts, mergers and abolishments that have been made to all non-governmental organisations since the Government came to power; the number and names of the non-governmental organisations in operation; his plans in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7802/12]

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (14 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Question 272: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will list all appointments to State boards and agencies made by him since he came to power; the persons appointed; the boards and agencies to which they were appointed; the remuneration details of each appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7827/12]