Results 5,501-5,520 of 19,173 for speaker:Shane Ross

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: The U-turn the Government did on the economy is not a matter of shame but a matter of pride. When the Taoiseach talks to us about the figures, which he did today, he ignores the fact, to which Deputy Halligan referred, that many of us go into our constituencies and see hard cases on a daily basis. Imagine them reading the Taoiseach's speech today telling them not to worry that the deficit...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: That did not happened at all because the Minister, Deputy Howlin, with his reforms, still comes back with the same old formula. Ministers, like himself, are still appointing their cronies to the boards of semi-State bodies. Maybe the Minister, Deputy Howlin, has never heard of John McNulty and perhaps that issue did not reach his ears. As Deputy Martin said, the response to that has been...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (17 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: Some of us on these benches are becoming veterans of the kind of sanitised speeches which the Taoiseach brings in here and reads every time before he goes to one of these meetings in Europe. This is, unfortunately, no exception. Like many other Deputies, including Deputy Boyd Barrett, I expected the Taoiseach to come in here and say that top of the agenda - I am insisting on it going on the...

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: This is an extraordinarily serious matter that has arisen over Christmas. It is strange that it was not properly foreseen and, if it was foreseen, that nothing was really done about it. The terrifying question, which was asked, I think, on "Morning Ireland" the other day, which has been asked ever since and to which we have not got a satisfactory answer, is whether the accident and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Semi-State Bodies (21 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: 231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total amount spent on the process of changing the name of Bord Gáis Éireann; the reason for the name change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2953/15]

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on yet another Garda Bill and to express a familiar story of disappointment that the Government has once again not just failed, but refused, to reform An Garda Síochána in any radical manner. I suppose it is no coincidence that I and other Independent Deputies, in particular Deputies Wallace and Daly, have been hammering away at this...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (27 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: 225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if changes have been made since 2013 or are planned to be made to the pensions of Ministers, Ministers of State and Office Holders in the Houses of the Oireachtas and the pensions of Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas; if so, the changes or proposed changes and the potential cost to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been left waiting for in excess of three months for a space in the National Rehabilitation Hospital; if he will arrange to have this matter reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3497/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: 359. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of occupational therapists in Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, County Offaly resulting in a person (details provided) receiving only 20 minutes of occupational therapy a day despite suffering a serious spinal and brain injury three months ago; if he will arrange to have the matter reviewed; and if he will...

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: So do we.

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: Like every speaker, I share the desire for the banking inquiry to go wherever it feels the need to go and the appetite for frank answers to an unlimited number of questions. Just as we have been told it does, this Bill addresses the problem encountered by the banking inquiry when it has hit a brick wall while seeking certain information. I think the Bill should be supported in that sense....

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: The important thing is that is the exact information that should be shared with the public.

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: The public is entitled to know what the bankers, developers and other big players were up to in that period. It is material. If the information being sought from the Central Bank in particular is not revealed, it will look like those people are being protected under the 1942 Act for some reason. An additional question arises in this context. Is it really correct that politicians should be...

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: Everybody knows that anything that comes to a certain number of politicians will leak. It will get out regardless of whether penalties apply.

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: The imposition of fines, penalties or absences from the House for that is irrelevant and absurd. The information that we are trying or pretending to try to keep confidential is undoubtedly going to leak out to the press sooner or later. I will give a recent example. We were all told that a highly sensitive document that had come to the Committee of Public Accounts, of which the Minister of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: I met Mr. Gillen last week and he has a point. We had representatives of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine here and they talked about the current leases. Mr. Gillen said there were many vacant properties in Howth and that the Department was doing nothing about them because there was no incentive to lease them. He has been seeking to lease one of them but has been unable to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: I would be happy to go and see it if somebody would come with me.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: We should write to the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: I have one more question. Where do we stand on the court case?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: Where do we stand on the court case being taken by Angela Kerins?