Results 3,021-3,040 of 19,173 for speaker:Shane Ross
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: All of it was in the public service.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: What is Mr. Murphy paid?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: Did Mr. Murphy also receive a board fee in 2011?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: No executive receives a board fee?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: How big is the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: Can Mr. Murphy tell me about the people on the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: Did people apply publicly for the board positions?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: When I look through the annual report, the names of the board members are listed but nothing else about them. Why is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: It is good practice, certainly in all public limited companies, to provide the CVs of board members. They are paid €12,000 a year. Why do we not receive information on who they are?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: Why not?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: My office rang the National Transport Authority to try to find out that information. No one in the authority has any information on the board members. They do not know anything about them. It is an extraordinary situation.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: Who are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: Why does Mr. Murphy not provide a biography of these people?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: Mr. David Alcorn is a Fianna Fáil councillor.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: Is that a suitable qualification for the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: Mr. Murphy described Ms Valerie O'Reilly as a public relations person. Is it correct that she was nominated by Deputy Michael Lowry?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: It is all over the press. It is unusual if Mr. Murphy does not read newspaper reports about his organisation.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: It is a well-known fact. Mr. Murphy mentioned Margaret O'Shaughnessy, who went before a Fianna Fáil convention but that detail did not appear anywhere. Mr. Damian Usher canvassed for the previous Minister, Noel Dempsey. Does Mr. Murphy ever look around the board and wonder whether these people are chosen purely for their expertise in transport?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: Mr. Murphy sits on the board with them and works with them.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)
Shane Ross: They are paid out of public funds. Is this a satisfactory way of selection, whereby Ministers appoint people who have political connections first and then expertise of limited value? Would it not be better if public money was spent on people who are, quite obviously, not chosen for their political colour?