Results 2,921-2,940 of 19,173 for speaker:Shane Ross
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Shane Ross: Will the Taoiseach consider sending a note of congratulations to the Greek Prime Minister, Mr. Antonis Samaras, on the stroke he pulled last night in having an enormous amount of Greece's debt implicitly written off? Indeed, Mr. Samaras described the deal as a great victory. It is time Ireland was in a position to claim - in the context of its own debt negotiations - a great victory. We...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Shane Ross: Greece has eyeballed the EU and the IMF and we have not managed to do so.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Shane Ross: In light of the Greek deal, is the Taoiseach prepared to tell the European Union, the European Commission and the IMF that we will not be paying the promissory notes on 31 March next? If he did so, those entities would listen to us in the same way they listened to Greece last night.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Shane Ross: There are two complementary tickets left if the Taoiseach wants them.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Shane Ross: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Shane Ross: I wish to respond in the first instance to Deputy Rabbitte for offering tickets to-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Shane Ross: I assure the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, that there is a bigger audience at the Bord Gáis Éireann Theatre than there is here.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Shane Ross: The difficulty is that we refer to Greece as occupying a special position and to Ireland also occupying such a position. Greece's special position has gained it some unique concessions. Will the Taoiseach indicate whether he regards - I would like to hear a specific reply on this - Ireland's debt as unsustainable? Second, as a result, will the Taoiseach look for the same terms as Greece and...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Shane Ross: Will the Government refuse to pay?
- Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)
Shane Ross: There might be some sort of a case for an extension of this guarantee if the Government were prepared to take responsibility for the banks and were prepared to direct their operations. There might be some sort of a case for saying the banks need to attract further funds, that they are too fragile at the moment to be allowed depend upon the bond markets and that the Government should decide...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Shane Ross: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I think Deputy Adams would be best served in sending his budget submission to Brussels or Berlin instead of sending it to Merrion Street.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Shane Ross: Today, middle Ireland is waking up with a feeling of foreboding. It is well aware that a draconian budget has been written elsewhere. Property owners, pensioners and people with mortgages they cannot pay are converting their anger into fear. This fear is not simply of what the Government is doing to them but of what is happening in Brussels and Berlin. They fear the property tax and they...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Shane Ross: Moreover, they fear that those who have been victims of the banks will now become victims of the Governments whose banks have imposed this austerity upon them. Members can discuss the property tax, because it has been announced by the Government many times. The blow of that tax is not softened by the leaks coming from the Government benches. In particular, I refer to the kind of...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Shane Ross: ----- for those people who will be obliged to pay large sums on small properties as a result of property tax. What the Government has succeeding in doing is highly dangerous. By allowing European and foreign forces to write this budget, it is creating an unlikely coalition of the unwilling and those who are unable to pay in Ireland today.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Shane Ross: Moreover, the blow is not softened by the fact-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Shane Ross: It is not softened by the fact that in view of the fact-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Shane Ross: In view of the fact that last Monday, the Government and the French and German finance Ministers closed the door-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Shane Ross: ----- to any Greek deal for Ireland, would the Taoiseach consider taking the fight about this budget to Brussels, to Berlin and to Paris? Would he consider getting a bank deal first and producing a budget second?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Shane Ross: The point I was trying to make is that middle Ireland now sees that on one side are the Government, the Department of Finance and others in positions of great power here, allied with Mrs. Merkel and other powerful European nations and European banks, while on the other side are the people of Ireland, who will be obliged to suffer this austerity budget today. I acknowledge the sums will add...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Shane Ross: What will the Taoiseach do? There has already been a strike in respect of the household charge. What will the Government do if the people decide this is a bridge too far-----