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Written Answers — Department of Health: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (27 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Health the total cost to the taxpayer of paying the aggregate fees, salaries and any other remuneration to directors of all State bodies, to include majority State owned banks, all public interest directors, all semi-State bodies, all State agencies and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15410/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies Remuneration (27 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost to the taxpayer of paying the aggregate fees, salaries and any other remuneration to directors of all State bodies, to include majority State owned banks, all public interest directors, all semi-State bodies, all State agencies and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15415/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Agencies Board Remuneration (16 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Taoiseach the total cost to the taxpayer of paying the aggregate fees, salaries and any other remuneration to directors of all State bodies, to include majority State owned banks, all public interest directors, all semi-State bodies, all State agencies and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16009/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers Grants (16 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the criteria for determining eligible cars under the disabled driver car purchase scheme is not based on CO2 emissions; his views on whether this is unfair to those persons who utilise the scheme and who wish to retain their particular model of car which is suitable to their particular disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16476/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (16 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 26 March 2013, if he has now had time to peruse the documentation and decided on the appropriate vote for each of the resolutions individually due for decision at the Bank of Ireland AGM on 24 April 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17368/13]

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: I welcome this Bill as something which is more than necessary. The calm and measured way in which it is being introduced and welcomed in this House suggests it is almost a rubber-stamping procedure, it would automatically go through and there is not really anything important behind it. That disguises to some extent the alarm bells that had been ringing on money-laundering, not only in the...

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: What are the penalties for companies so consistently late?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: Are there no penalties?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: Semi-State bodies are sometimes the worst offenders.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: Is there no incentive for them to deliver on time?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: I wish to raise one further matter under any other business. I am aware that the committee is restricted in terms of calling in representatives of the Central Bank. May we ask representatives of the Central Bank to come before us to discuss the specific issue of the value for money the bank provides to the taxpayer?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: Would it have to be a report done by the Comptroller and Auditor General?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: Why?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: Could we ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to do a specific value for money report on the Central Bank?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: What would Mr. McCarthy require for that purpose? Does he only need a direction from the committee? Could members ask the clerk to the committee to write a letter to the Comptroller and Auditor General asking for such a report to be done?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: I will raise the issues I believe to be important and revert to the committee next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: Could we not bring in representatives of the Central Bank on the basis of the Comptroller and General's audit report?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 336 of 16 April 2013, the way he has cast his vote for each of the resolutions individually due for decision at the Bank of Ireland AGM on 24 April 2013; if he has not yet cast his vote, the way he intends to cast it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18747/13]

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: I am sharing time with Deputies Clare Daly, Mick Wallace, Joan Collins and Stephen Donnelly.