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Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: Perhaps I can have details of the people involved. Regarding corporate governance, the opaqueness of the Rehab accounts is extraordinary and I have not sorted out the problems I had because of the refusal of the witnesses to answer questions I asked. I find this whole experience pretty worthless. The opaque nature of the accounts is one issue. What rules of corporate governance does...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: The board is self-perpetuating in that it goes out and chooses another lot. Does Rehab advertise for board members?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: I did not ask that.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: And then they are chosen by the last board.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: Yes, and the nomination committee proposes people. How come a former chief executive is on the board?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: It is against corporate governance rules to have a former chief executive on the board.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: It is considered extremely bad, certainly in the world of public companies, to put a former chief executive on the board because of the difficulties of their having control after they leave.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: I do not think Ms Kerins is right. I do not want to mention any high profile cases, but Ms Kerins will find there are such cases.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: I listened to the ministerial speeches and, once again, I wonder at what constituency they are aimed. Someone affected by the recession in Ireland would be left utterly and totally cold. There is little comfort in them, although there are many boasts on a macroeconomic scale. The Taoiseach's speech, like so many by him and the Tánaiste, was directed, once again, at large vested...

Public Accounts Committee (6 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: When are we getting those answers to the 12 points that we made?

Public Accounts Committee (6 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: Perhaps we can reissue the chairman's invitation as well as the information for the remuneration committee.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to build much needed secondary schools in the rapidly expanding district of Kilternan-Stepaside-Glencullen and adjoining areas, based on the fact that the council has recommended two sites for possible construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11750/14]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: I wish to share time with Deputies Mick Wallace and Luke 'Ming' Flanagan.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: Yes.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: I often wonder about the value of the debates which we have prior to European summits in terms of the pattern which they follow, namely, the Taoiseach commences with a reasonably bland speech about what may or may not happen, he then receives a certain amount of criticism from the Opposition and, sometimes, constructive suggestions, as happened today in the context of the Crimean situation,...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (13 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: 217. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action that has been taken regarding the issue of step-parent adoption, as raised by this Deputy under Topical Issues on 10 October 2013; the reason the glaring anomalies have still not been addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12623/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: The response is a smokescreen. It does not give us what we sought and it is deliberately obscure. It makes life harder for us and is typical of the characteristics of the replies we receive that we get nothing that we want, particularly in the case of the Towers Watson situation. This was the promised report on salaries. Instead we got a kind of PowerPoint summary. Yesterday we wrote...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: That is typically unsatisfactory. It is more of the smokescreen. As everybody on the committee knows, we got a very bland summary which gives us no idea of the basis on which people were being paid, what they were being paid and the pattern of pay. If we get the full report we should get full details of what happened. There is correspondence which specifically shows that Towers Watson...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: Deputy Higgins is correct. I do not think there is a sinner outside this House who believes a word of the scenario being painted by the Government today. It defies credibility. Two days ago, there was a Cabinet crisis of a fairly hefty dimension and, suddenly, to the rescue comes this bombshell of news about the system containing tapes which nobody knew about before. That was no...