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Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Last week, the Governor of the Central Bank told the finance committee that the idea of strategic defaulters is a phoney concept, a piece of banking propaganda with which the Government goes along. How is the Government going to deal with that? In her speech the Minister of State referred to a distinction between those willing to pay and those who cannot pay. Strategic defaulters are a...

Topical Issue Debate: Adoption Issues (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: I address this issue in the context of many people who have approached me on it and which is obviously an increasingly difficult problem for a large number of people. It is the issue of stepfathers or stepmothers voluntarily adopting children but the real issue is where their partner, and in most cases it is the natural mother of the child, is forced to adopt the child also. I will give a...

Topical Issue Debate: Adoption Issues (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister for her reply, which is enlightened in sentiment but perhaps somewhat unclear in the context of intention and timing. I am delighted that there are no constitutional difficulties in respect of this matter. I did not anticipate any such difficulties. When I heard the words "complex" and "review", I become concerned that nothing is going to happen or that a matter will...

Topical Issue Debate: Adoption Issues (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the latest official forecast for employment, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of jobs he and his Department anticipate being created by each significant sector in the economy, including, specifically, from the high-tech sector, the multinational sector, State enterprise, small and medium businesses, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister for his reply but he did not quite answer my question. I understand his comments on making forecasts but my question, which follows on from Deputy McLellan's, asked the sectors in which the increases in jobs are expected to occur. The Minister referred to the acute problem of the mismatch of jobs and skills. This problem is not new, however. It existed under the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: I agree with the Minister that it is a difficult area and understand why he is reluctant to give exact figures. However, this means the mismatch is almost certain to continue. We do not know how to train people because we do not know where the jobs will be created beyond a vague identification of the sectors. Where does he think jobs will be lost in the coming years? I hope his optimism...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Following on from Deputy Mary Lou McDonald's question, why did the institute need all these PR people?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Will Dr. Neavyn tell us about Bance Nolan?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Is it a one-man operation or something larger?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Is it a small or large company?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Dr. Neavyn indicated that Bracken PR is based in Dublin.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Is it a large company?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Would Dr. Neavyn be surprised if it turned out to be a one man and his dog type of operation?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: The size of these companies could be material to finding out how all of this happened. Questions arise as to whether there was a personal relationship between any service provider and the person or entity availing of that service, as Deputy McDonald outlined. There is the question of whether companies which did not go in for a competitive tender should have been selected at all. One...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: We have established that these contracts did not go to tender. Did anybody ever challenge the president on these items of expenditures? People must have been aware the guidelines were being breached.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Is Dr. Neavyn aware of any challenge to the president on any ground of breach of governance?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: By whom were those queries raised?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: What was the outcome of that request?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: To clarify, there was a query about expenditure which was referred to the management committee?