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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank the Commissioner.

Other Questions: State Banking Sector Regulation (21 May 2013)

Shane Ross: I did not hear the Minister. What did he say?

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)

Shane Ross: I see this Bill pretty well exclusively as a response to the referendum in 2011 on Oireachtas inquiries. It is worth reflecting that it was expected throughout the campaign, such as it was, that the referendum would pass very easily because there was a huge impetus and enthusiasm at the time to get to the bottom of the banking crisis and find out what happened. That was the reason behind the...

Ireland and the Eurozone: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank Deputy Thomas Pringle for bringing forward this motion. It is particularly timely given that the Taoiseach is representing Ireland in Europe today. I was somewhat surprised to hear that Deputy Olivia Mitchell has accused Deputy Pringle of sedition in tabling the motion. That seems a rather extreme reaction, particularly as the wording has echoes of a speech that was made from the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Shane Ross: I just have one question. I do not have the breadth of vision or depth of knowledge that Deputy Donohoe has. I believe Ms McGrath has covered the Garda stations. What will the OPW do with Stepaside Garda station?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Shane Ross: What is the first stage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Shane Ross: When can we expect some sort of outcome from that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Shane Ross: Can Ms McGrath tell us the public bodies involved?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Shane Ross: Why can she not tell us? Is it because the OPW is very secretive or because-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Shane Ross: Could you let me know the second?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank Ms McGrath.

Seanad (No. 2) Bill 2013: First Stage (28 May 2013)

Shane Ross: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to reform the system of electing the elected members of Seanad Éireann as provided for in Article 18.10 of the Constitution by extending the right to vote to all persons entitled to vote in elections for Dáil Éireann, and to certain other persons resident in the State and to persons resident in Northern Ireland...

Seanad (No. 2) Bill 2013: First Stage (28 May 2013)

Shane Ross: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)

Shane Ross: This European Council meeting was billed as a co-ordinated effort against tax evasion to attack tax dodgers throughout the world. The Taoiseach was highly unfortunate in that the day before he travelled, he was ambushed from the United States. Moreover, when United States Senators Carl Levin and John McCain made their comments, at least one of them accused Ireland of being a tax haven....

European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)

Shane Ross: In response to the Minister of State, I want to ask him about these two US Senators who have made this statement that we are a tax haven. I would agree with him. I would have thought these are two mavericks who are having a go and being irresponsible. In that light, perhaps he could respond as to what is official United States policy about our corporate tax rate and corporate tax...

Topical Issue Debate: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Jun 2013)

Shane Ross: I wish to share time with Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor.

Topical Issue Debate: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Jun 2013)

Shane Ross: And we have one minute for a reply.

Topical Issue Debate: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Jun 2013)

Shane Ross: As many others in this House have done, I represent some very unhappy parents and children in fee-paying schools. They are unhappy because they see the pupil-teacher ratio being raised to 23:1 in September, with the intention of another increase - possibly to 27:1 - by 2015, and because they see themselves as victims of an ideological policy that makes no sense and a Labour Party plan, based...

Topical Issue Debate: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Jun 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister of State for his reply which is full of aspiration and provides no comfort whatsoever, except fine words, about what the Government would like to do and how it recognises the ethos and the difficulties of the Church of Ireland schools and other schools. This train has already left the station in that Kilkenny College has already opted to go into the public sector and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Jun 2013)

Shane Ross: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected extra cost to the Exchequer of Kilkenny College in 2013/14 when it will be State funded excluding boarding fees; if he will detail what is to happen to the teachers employed in excess of the set pupil teacher ratio of 19:1; if he will outline any capital costs including liability for loans taken out by Kilkenny College; and if he...