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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Compensation Fund (13 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount taxpayers have paid into the Insurance Fund since the liquidation of Insurance Corporation of Ireland. [46811/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Personal Public Service Numbers (13 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 566. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that opticians are requiring a PPS number from customers when privately purchasing spectacles, if this is as a result of his guidelines or if it is optional; if it is an expansion of PPSN provision requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46574/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (13 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 714. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the medical condition of a person (details supplied); if he has received information from the Egyptian authorities on whether this person's trial will go ahead in the near future, the supports being provided to this person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46481/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Staff (13 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 771. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the employment control framework for higher education for the period 2010 to 2014 remains in force; the conditions governing it and how these were agreed; when it will lapse; if higher education institutions are required to continue to adhere to the senior-junior staff ratios as per the framework; the procedures available to deviate from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Staff (13 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 772. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or other bodies have the power to impose sanctions on higher education institutions that breach the agreement for the period 2010 to 2014; what those sanctions are; if they have been levied, on whom, and in what amount and nature; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46837/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Staff (13 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the employment control framework for higher education for the period 2010 to 2014 required only maintenance of ratios between lecturer and professorial staff for academic staff and those below that level, and for those above €70,000 salary for others, or if it also mandated, as some higher education institutions have interpreted,...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: Oh my God.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: Before I forget, I would like to deal with the statement made by the Minister of State. I do not know what she is referring to in regard to pensioners. I was one of the people in this House who represented the deferred pensioners of Aer Lingus and the DAA in this House in regard to the conditions the Minister and the Government so ruthlessly imposed on them. I do not know to what she was...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: The reason I have done that is because of the cronyism of the Government and the criticism of other governments. I have done so because I do not believe the way these jobs are being filled currently is right. I do not ever wish the appointments boards to bypass proper process. What I have done is suggest names as alternatives to the cronyism and I will continue to do that, because that is...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: I have read them and there is no qualification whatever in it. The Tánaiste might raise her eyes to heaven. The qualifications arose when the final document was produced but the first document and its preface did not indicate we would have the old system of political appointments shoved in there by stealth. All we are asking on this side of the House is that Mr. Begg, for all his...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: He has it because he is a supporter of the Labour Party.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: The Tánaiste described him as such.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: She said he was a supporter of the Labour Party, which is why he gets that divine right.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: They are the Tánaiste's own words. She said he was a supporter of the Labour Party.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: At his retirement function, her words were that he was a supporter of the Labour Party and a supporter of the labour movement.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: We have been speaking about him.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: I take your point, which is perfectly fair. The appointee was described outside this House by the Tánaiste as a supporter of the Labour Party.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: No, the Labour Party and labour movement. On another occasion, the Tánaiste described him as a supporter of the labour movement but she also described him as a supporter of the Labour Party.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: She cannot get away with that. It is important as this particular model, which camouflaged everything so well, was constructed deliberately with a great gaping hole in the middle. It negates all the other clauses that were put into the document, as a Minister, despite all the jargon, can still pick and choose whomever he or she wants. These guidelines have become a vehicle for cronyism....