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- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) Shane Ross: Is the figure of €549,000 correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) Shane Ross: Surely it is not per station. Does Mr. Waters mean per annum?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) Shane Ross: Nobody has argued that all 139 stations should have been kept open. Part of the problem, however, is that this was portrayed as being about saving money. To come up with a figure of €549,000, which some people reduced to €300,000, is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) Shane Ross: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) Shane Ross: However, it has not saved any money. The per annum figure is very small in proportion to the overall budget. It seems strange that anybody should describe what we have now as a policing model that is working. Certainly, the incidence of burglaries indicates it has failed in certain areas. I will concede part of the point here to Mr. Waters but not the main part of it. The Central...
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) Shane Ross: We have the figure of €549,000. Let us use it as a hook.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) Shane Ross: Stepaside station still has a security person in it, which is costing the State money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) Shane Ross: That is correct. It has not been sold.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) Shane Ross: I thank Mr. Waters.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Disability Support Services Provision (12 Nov 2015)
Shane Ross: 131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the process undertaken by the National Disability Authority for the provision of the employer helpline service, as recommended by the comprehensive employment strategy for people with disabilities; when this helpline service will be operational; the organisation that will be responsible for its provision; and if she will make a statement on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
Shane Ross: If we are writing, we should ask some very specific questions of the Department. What motivated the official to do this? Did anyone, either political, internal within the Department or a member of the Judiciary, approach him in any way to apologise? It is important to know how these things work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
Shane Ross: Could the Comptroller and Auditor General clarify that?
- Paris Terrorist Attack: Statements (17 Nov 2015)
Shane Ross: I endorse the sympathy expressed by everybody in the House to the French people following the atrocity inflicted on them last Friday and express my sympathy to the ambassador and those present in the Visitors Gallery. I ask them to take home with them the sympathy of everybody in Ireland. Many of us in this House are Francophiles and visit France every year, perhaps many times a year. To...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Reductions (17 Nov 2015)
Shane Ross: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the current rate of 13.5% value added tax charged on the carbon tax, which is effectively tantamount to a tax on a tax: his views that this is fair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40705/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (17 Nov 2015)
Shane Ross: 405. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reverse the cuts to the hourly rate of pay for nursing and midwife interns, and to implement a minimum wage hourly rate; his views that further steps need to be made to encourage and support nursing and midwifery graduates to stay here upon completion of their training; that treatment as interns is linked to the current shortage of nurses; and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (18 Nov 2015)
Shane Ross: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the spike in corporation tax receipts and the over-performance of €800 million from this source of revenue; if the increase comes from the multinational sector; if he will provide a breakdown of the increase into one-off factors, early payments and delayed rebates and repayments; the timing factors that were involved; the proportion of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (18 Nov 2015)
Shane Ross: I want to raise the issue of the surge in corporate tax returns at the end of October. The Minister will be aware that the income tax and VAT returns were a little below expectations but the corporate tax returns were far above. Can we have an explanation from the Minister for the over-performance of corporate tax? Can the Minister tell us whether this comes from the multinational sector...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (18 Nov 2015)
Shane Ross: I thank the Minister for his reply. I am a little puzzled by some of the balance. I gather €550 million was explained. A large amount of this was described as the result of better trading conditions. Does that include a single payment from a multinational that has adjusted it profits somewhat dramatically in recent times? What I am getting at is the fact that if multinationals are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (18 Nov 2015)
Shane Ross: I thank the Minister. He has opened the door a bit further, for which I am grateful. The evidence is clear that the multinationals are the main contributors to the extraordinary spike in corporate tax. The Minister should be worried about the effect of the contribution of multinationals which is making such a significant and material difference to the returns to the Exchequer. I am...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (18 Nov 2015)
Shane Ross: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the progress he has made in his efforts to force Bank of Ireland to reduce its variable rate mortgages; to state the banks that have reduced variable rates; if Bank of Ireland, in particular, has refused to reduce its variable rates; if, as a shareholder in the Bank of Ireland, he will be able to persuade it to bring back its variable rates to...