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

Shane Ross: Deputy Niall Collins stated several things which were so irresponsible and wrong that they should be corrected.

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

Shane Ross: Let me correct this one. He stated the Bill would create a new quango. It would not create anything. No new body would be created. This is a costless exercise. It simply uses the resources of the State as they exist. I suggest to Deputy Collins that if he wants to come here and speak on a Bill in future, and if I had time I could list other statements he made, he had better read the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: Am I correct that what we are speaking about is the letter from Ms Mellissa English to the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: What has to be decided is our response to that letter. Do we accept what Ms English says in her letter?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I am not sure we should necessarily accept that. We will need to respond to the Parliamentary Legal Adviser in regard to whether we accept what she says in her letter to the committee in regard to her not being conflicted about Chinese walls. We need to take a view on that. We need to take a view on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I agree with plan A. It is a very good suggestion from Deputies Deasy and Dowds that the Chairman should talk the Ceann Comhairle. However, I would point out that the Committee on Procedure and Privileges has got itself a senior counsel. We should also have a senior counsel if we are to get into any sort of court conflict with it. There are problems. The parliamentary legal adviser was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: That is fine.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I have little quarrel with what was included in the Taoiseach's speech. One could not really quarrel with it because there was not very much in it. My problem is with what was not in the speech. The most important point discussed by the Taoiseach was the nomination of Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker. He told us very little about this and what he said was very disappointing. I agree with Deputy...

State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I wish to focus my comments and add to what Deputy Clare Daly has been saying. I am particularly shocked by the position in which the deferred members find themselves. I do not understand how what currently exists could have been allowed to develop under any fair system of judgment or decision-making process. I can only conclude that the deferred members have been treated as they have...

Topical Issue Debate: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: This is the third time I have raised this subject in recent years. I do not do so on an ideological basis, although there is an ideology among those who for some reason wish to see the pupil-teacher ratio in fee-paying schools increase. There is a large body of opinion that the Government has simply got this wrong, because it sees private schools and fee-paying schools as an elite body who...

Topical Issue Debate: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I am sure he will understand when I say that sympathy is not enough. It is easy to say that one is well aware of the problem but that everything has to be considered within the context of overall cuts in public expenditure. These private schools, including those of a non-Protestant or minority ethos, which have a special case to make, are fed up...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: Has the former chairman, Mr. Goulding, accepted the invitation? He publicly stated he would come before the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: Is there any doubt about them coming in or are they just worried about the date?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: What is the problem then?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I would hate to think there is some type of backsliding going on and the indication is that there may be.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I would hate to think it was true, that is what I am saying. The old board still has many questions to answer. The report mentioned missing files and other issues which are outstanding about which, undoubtedly, we ought to ask. There are also issues which the administrator did not address. As the Chairman knows, the administrator did not interview the old board at all. He decided this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I am worried about pursuing it further in the afternoon. What will happen will be-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: Wait a minute. We are heading for a summer recess. It is important that we get some evidence from those in question before then. If we leave the matter until this afternoon, we will be into next week and they will not attend.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: As long as we get a response.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: It is slightly vague. Who specifically have we asked? I do not know.