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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2014)

Shane Ross: It would be extraordinary. I do not detect any sense of urgency about anything that happens at the CPP. We should watch it carefully.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2014)

Shane Ross: Can we do that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2014)

Shane Ross: Priority for the CPP could mean September. Perhaps we could get it onto that committee's May agenda.

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2014)

Shane Ross: As Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett will not be here, perhaps we might redistribute his time among the rest of us. I am astonished at the attitude towards the Bill, particularly that of the Government. I know that it is accepting the Bill, but its grudging acceptance is something I do not welcome. I understand it is a very difficult issue for it, having instinctively and blindly backed up An...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)

Shane Ross: I am sorry but I missed the last sentence.

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)

Shane Ross: I congratulate Deputy Ruth Coppinger on her maiden speech and I wish her many long years in this House. I regret the fact that she is supplanting her constituency colleague, but maybe we will find another constituency for him. In light of what he said in his elegant speech in Irish, it would be a great pity if we were to lose him to a colleague for political and constituency reasons. I...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (4 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps taken to recruit companies in new sectors to implement apprenticeship programmes, aside from JobBridge, bearing in mind that the review of apprenticeship training in Ireland, published on 21 January 2014, presented evidence showing countries with high quality apprenticeship programmes have great success in promoting...

Reform of Judicial Appointments Procedures Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I very much welcome the Bill. I am disappointed with the Government's response because it is quite obviously a very constructive effort to reform a system which is generally acknowledged to be in dire need of reform. My only criticism of the Bill is that it is not radical enough. It is a very good effort to highlight the real problems we have in the judicial system, particularly in the...

Reform of Judicial Appointments Procedures Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I do not know where the Minister of State has been because I have heard barristers say very little else and they say it in here also. They know perfectly well how the world works. There is no point in pretending innocently this is not how things happen. It is how things happen.

Reform of Judicial Appointments Procedures Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I am not particularly fussy about how it happens but the principles are very important. I would like to see the initial selection process being made by outsiders but allowing, as Deputies Broughan and Mac Lochlainn stated, people with legal expertise to be involved. It would be appropriate, of course, that wider society gets involved. I do not know whether the groups identified by previous...

Reform of Judicial Appointments Procedures Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: If a politician is to state this is not the way it works, at a time when the judges themselves are blushing at the process, it simply beggars belief.

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: First Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I move:Bill entitled an Act to provide for the independent appointment of Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner and senior members of the Garda Síochána, to make the removal of such members more transparent and accountable, to amend the Public Service (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 and 2013 and the Garda Síochána Act 2005 and to provide for related matters.I am...

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: First Stage (12 Jun 2014)

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

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I tend to agree with Deputy Eoghan Murphy. The relevant paragraph is No. 4 on page 2 where it states the Committee on Procedure and Privileges wishes to know the proceedings and under which Standing Order we intend to pursue the issue, having regard to the fact that Rehab is not audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. This appears to be camouflage. What is intended is giving us a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: Yes, absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I agree with everything the Chairman said. It is a sensible way forward. My problem is with the operations of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges. I asked to go to the meeting to observe what was going on but I was told I could not. Why are the Committee on Procedure and Privileges meetings held in such secrecy? Why can we not have access to what is going on and why does the public...

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I would like to share time with Deputies Finian McGrath, Mick Wallace, Clare Daly and Mattie McGrath.

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I am delighted to move this Bill in front of the new Minister for Justice and Equality. I hope the response we get from the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, gives us a message of hope, reform and change and includes a major dismissal of the events of the past. We need a new departure in the Department of Justice and Equality, in the appointment of judges and in the appointment of the Garda...

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I thank all Members who contributed to Second Stage of this Bill, particularly my colleagues on these benches. I thank the Sinn Féin Members for their support in principle for this Bill. They wish that it would proceed to Committee Stage and, like every other Member, that there would be an independent Garda authority with teeth and credibility which would guide the future of the Garda...

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: Its members have been away for an hour and a half and they did not bother to come in. Their concern for the future of the Judiciary is not very touching.