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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: So there are one or two exceptions like the-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: How long has Mr. Mulvey been chairman of the board?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (8 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: 222. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of fees and expenses paid to all returning officers for the 2014 local elections; and if these fees are liable to taxation. [38413/14]

Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: It is 13,000, but it does not matter though.

Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: When the IFSC was set up, I believe in 1987, I was one of those who moaned about it and was a detractor. I said it would never work and the jobs targets were far too high. I regarded it as an election gimmick, one of Charles Haughey's mad ideas. When I said this, I was cheered on by the leading socialists of the day, who were hoping it would not work for reasons of ideology. I was wrong;...

Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: I apologise, Chairman. This has been happening continually. There was blatant political imposition of Governors onto what was the old Financial Regulator and the old Central Bank. There is no question that this went on. Indeed, it was partly responsible for the crisis we found ourselves in, because these guys did not know what was going on. It was one of the principal causes of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: When are we meeting SIPTU?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: Do we know who is coming in?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: That is done and dusted.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: That is only one side. One cannot agree on one side.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: What does the correspondence say?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: Can we have a copy of the letter?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: Is it from him or his lawyers?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: He is contesting our right to -----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: It is a matter of urgency if they are due on 17 November.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: That is fine, as long as we can get a copy of the letter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: Have we not compelled him?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: This manoeuvring is something new and it is despite the fact that we have compulsory powers. We have been granted compellability.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: Legal action is still open.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: What option will be open to him at that stage - to injunct us?