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Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Shane Ross: That is fine. I thank Mr. O’Flynn.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Shane Ross: I have as long an experience as anybody in this House, bar the Taoiseach and maybe one or two others, of being present for discussion of this issue. I was unfortunate enough to be here, in the other House, in 1984; I was unfortunate enough to see this being debated in the 1990s; and I am unfortunate enough to see it still unresolved in 2013. It is sad to see us being reluctantly, once...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Banking Sector Investigations (2 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any Government members, or staff, advisers or associates of his Department who were aware of the existence of the Anglo Irish tapes released and published in the media in recent days; if his attention has been drawn to any members of staff of the Central Bank or any State owned banks with any knowledge of the tapes; if...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Banking Sector Investigations (2 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister for his reply. I accept everything he says about who knew what, when they knew it and when these tapes were handed over. I am surprised about one aspect of his reply. It is well known that all conversations of this sort were recorded. I cannot understand why nobody in the Department and particularly in the Central Bank, which was the regulator at the time, knowing...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Banking Sector Investigations (2 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister and I accept what he has said. My quarrel is that the Financial Regulator did not ask for them far earlier. He did not ask for them in 2008 when the crisis broke. He did not ask for them at the time he was saying all the banks were solvent. He did not look for these tapes at the time although the tapes were obviously in existence. That is an extraordinary situation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (2 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: 340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if anyone will be held accountable for the errors in the leaving certificate higher level maths paper 2 taken on 10 June 2013; how students will be compensated for the errors in the paper; if students will be given an opportunity to sit an accurate replacement exam in order to ensure their futures are not compromised by mistakes made by his...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank Deputy Fleming for putting his finger on the kernel of the problem. I do not agree with everything he said but the issue we must debate and decide upon relates to the composition of the inquiry. This is the most controversial aspect of the Bill. Nobody in the House doubts the need for an inquiry and everybody has been seeking such an inquiry. If, however, we proceed with the...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: I apologise, the composition proposed in the amendment. I do not agree that there should be a 40-40 split, that the Chairman should be a member of the Opposition or that a Government Deputy should hold that position. I am of the view that this matter is no longer suitable to be examined by a committee of inquiry comprising Oireachtas Members. I say this for a specific and obvious reason,...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: The Minister is very good at interrupting. He might listen for a little while.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: There were many people involved in that who were not aware of what was going on or how decisions were made. Those of us who went to the Department of Finance that night - it had echoes of 2008 - were very puzzled by the fact so little information was given to us, that it was given to us half an hour before the Bill was debated and that the civil servants could not explain the relationship...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: I wish to respond briefly to what the Minister stated. I am sure he heard the Director of Public Prosecutions at the weekend-----

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: Yes. At the weekend the former DPP, James Hamilton, made comments on the effect this inquiry might have and that it might prejudice upcoming trials.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: Exactly. I hope the Minister will comment on what the former DPP stated because it came from a non-political source. It is absolutely self-evident from the debate that we as a House, group and individuals are intrinsically biased. I echo what Deputy Kelleher had to say. It is quite obvious the banking issue and inquiry are already political footballs, whether we like it or not. We have...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: The Minister should attend a Technical Group meeting.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education Issues (9 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: 461. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there will be a recognition in her plans for reform of childcare and pre-school care facilities for staff members and creche owners whose childcare qualifications are prior to FETAC and whose montessori diploma have been granted a FETAC 5 equivalent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32908/13]

Mortgage Arrears Proposals: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh, for the very pedantic correction. You are absolutely correct and we are grateful to have someone as accurate and precise as yourself in the Chair this evening. It is an appropriate motion from Fianna Fáil at this time, when we are apparently seeing an extraordinary solution to the mortgage problem, supported by the Government. The solution appears to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (10 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide reassurance that special needs assistants who have been unemployed for longer than a year will be eligible to be placed on a panel for further recruitment either in their present school or elsewhere, as per the Haddington Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33588/13]

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: In principle, I welcome the Bill. The idea of reforming the courts in this way is welcome. I wish to make a general point about courts of this sort regarding the judges themselves. I do not know how judges for these cases are chosen but I gather that it is left to the president of each court to decide how they are allocated and to which cases they are assigned. It is obviously very...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: It would be far better if judges were appointed in a transparent manner, after interviews, with qualifications and brought before Oireachtas committees in order that Members of both Houses and all parties could examine them in a demanding way and that they would have to be seen, not just by the Oireachtas but the public, to have the necessary qualifications to fill these particularly serious...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: Thank you. I will not name anybody. I am being meticulously careful in all cases not to name anybody. What I saying is about trying to establish a principle for appointing judges. What I am saying is that those who have stood for election for particular parties seem to get preference when that political party is in power. This is an important principle and is one that will be discussed...