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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: So we are behind?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: What I do not understand is how many sets of unaudited accounts are floating around. The LRC seems to have issued - I have them here - a set of unaudited accounts for 2013. Is that normal?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: I have a copy of them. In what circumstances does that happen? This is not an aggressive line of questioning. I have in front of me - which is surprising - unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2013 from the Labour Relations Commission, LRC. Is that normal?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: Why are they floating around the place then?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: Would you mind checking?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: Also, where they are in terms of your priorities now.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason professional band musicians have to pay such a large proportion of their relatively small earnings on income tax and VAT; and the reason the VAT threshold is set at €37,500 when in the United Kingdom that VAT threshold is equal to €103,000. [39776/14]

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: From this side of the House I always struggle to find measures in the budget that I welcome. However, people on all sides of the House should welcome the proposed abolition of the pension levy. It is a bit like congratulating a highwayman on stopping robbing carriages. It caused great hardship to many people and was unjustified if not unlawful. On this side of the House we should...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; the barrier to the new school being built; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40492/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Superannuation Schemes (22 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the issue of Aer Lingus deferred pensions; if he plans to sign the ministerial orders which have been recently enacted in the State Airports (Shannon Airport) Act 2014 despite the detrimental effect it could have on deferred members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40572/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: I did, Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: The accounts were late anyway.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: Maybe that is the reason but it is a strange thing to place unaudited accounts in the public arena, is it not?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: But there might be.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: When is this going to be resolved? When will the final audited version come through? This is the LRC, is it not?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: Mr. McCarthy does not think there is any particular reason in this case? Does he think they just threw them in because they were late with the other ones?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: That is fine. I think we have bigger fish to fry next.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: I raise an issue that relates both to correspondence and the committee's work programme. Last night, members received from the Clerk to the Committee a copy of a letter sent to him by Ms Ramona Quinn, the parliamentary legal adviser, in which she refers to an earlier conversation regarding the proposed examination of Irish Water officials by the committee and notes that is envisaged that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: In that case, what is this letter about?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Shane Ross: Has a legal opinion been sought?