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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: Sorry, can the Chairman repeat that please?

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Triocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2013: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: I will try to do so. I have enjoyed debates such as this for many years. There is a repetitiveness about them that people who claim to be the champions of neutrality are more vociferous than others. I agree with much of what Deputy Clare Daly said that there was a time when the voice of Ireland was respected overseas and that voice was respected mainly because neutrality had an identity....

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Triocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2013: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: The Minister of State should stop interrupting because he will have an opportunity to reply.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Triocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2013: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: He is the advertisement.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Triocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2013: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: The Minister of State may be impressed by it-----

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Triocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2013: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: -----but he has even lower thresholds than I have. That is all I can say about the matter. It is regrettable and we should take note of it, but I ask why this has happened. Why is Ireland frightened to raise its voice against anything? Whether Deputies Mick Wallace and Clare Daly are right, surely the Minister should have expressed concern about the apparent activities of the United...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Triocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2013: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: I will try to restrict my remarks to five minutes. There used to be a time when Heads of State and Government came to address this House. I refer to visits by John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Francois Mitterand, Helmut Kohl, Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela. Such visited ended about the year 2000. If the Minister of State were to look at the photographs on the walls of Leinster House, he...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Triocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2013: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: -----because they would probably be interrupted by a Minister who did not know what he was talking about. They do not come because they have no respect for what Ireland says among the nations of the world because it says virtually nothing. I understand fully the reasons for this, but let us be realistic. I read in the newspaper this morning that last year our nation had received more...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of Aer Lingus (10 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: 116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider making it a precondition of any sale of the Government's stake in Aer Lingus that the longer service Irish Airlines (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme deferred pensioners be compensated in proportion to the compensation given to the current employees of the Dublin Airport Authority and Aer Lingus; and if he...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of Aer Lingus (10 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: The Minister will be well aware that it is now the eleventh hour for long serving deferred pensioners of the IASS. He has, I suggest, a unique opportunity at this stage to pull the fat out of the fire. Will he pledge that, in the event of a sale of Aer Lingus, he will ring-fence sufficient money - there will be plenty of money over in respect of which the Government has not yet made any...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of Aer Lingus (10 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: The Minister is correct. The question is specifically directed towards the placing of further demands on a deal that has taken many years to negotiate. That is exactly what I am trying to do, because this deal is a dastardly deal that discriminates against people who are now in a hopeless situation. I get no comfort from the Minister's reply. It seems to me that these people have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of Aer Lingus (10 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: The Minister is being quite frankly ridiculous. That is a trivial point. I am saying that in the event of Aer Lingus being sold the money should go to these people. The Minister made an absurd point. He is particularly compromised on this issue because it involves a large number of voters in his constituency. This makes it very difficult for him to make objective judgments on a matter of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of Aer Lingus (10 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: That is a gross and deliberate misrepresentation of what I said. I stated that if there is money available, it should be provided for this purpose. The Minister's statement is outrageous.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (10 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: 374. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has failed or refused to engage in an independent assessment of need for all persons supported by Camphill Communities of Ireland, linked to its value for money report; if the executive is considering increasing the sleepover rates for Camphill Communities of Ireland in line with the Labour Court ruling; and if he...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: I am beginning to get a little bit weary of these supposed debates that we have before the Taoiseach heads off to Brussels for summits. One reason I am getting weary of them is summed up in his last sentence, “I look forward now to hearing Deputies’ comments and perspectives”. Where is the Taoiseach? Is he listening to us somewhere else? He left the Chamber the moment...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: We should naturally have said we sympathise with the Greek plight. Instead we hid behind the skirts of the Germans and the French and we are doing exactly the same on Ukraine and Russia.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legal Costs (12 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: 303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount in legal fees paid by the Road Safety Authority to solicitors' firms each year from 2009 to 2014; the amount paid to each firm in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10998/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: I understood we had decided to write to the people in the United Kingdom. We have not received the correspondence. May we have it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)

Shane Ross: Yes, the letter we decided last week to write.