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Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: Who is moving the amendment? Is the Minister or Senator Cox?

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: I thank Senators and the Minister for contributing to this debate, which was useful even if it did not elicit a great deal of information from the Minister about the Government's intentions for child care in the budget. We did not expect that anyway. One of the important matters to emerge in this debate is that this is not necessarily a problem about money. Money helps and we have plenty of...

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: I will finish on this sentence but it will be a long one.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: I will decide when the full stop comes. We must relieve the human misery suffered by those who choose to work. They suffer from the stresses of traffic congestion when commuting and their incomes going on crèches. The solution to the problem lies in a balance between contributions from businesses that can afford to pay, the parents and the State. We anticipate with great interest a crusade...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: I do not disagree with anything said in the House about the 1916 Rising. Nobody has a problem with celebrating or commemorating it. As Senator Brian Hayes said, it is a "staging post" in our history which should be recognised but there is a problem with the Taoiseach announcing it at a tribal rally.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: The words stand. It is clear that in this House it has already become a political football. Political parties should not compete for possession of this part of our history. That is the problem.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: If we are genuine about it being a national commemorative event — I believe Senator Ó Murchú is genuine — let us not allow Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil to compete for possession of this part of our history, as occurred last weekend.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: If the Taoiseach was genuine, he would have announced it in the Dáil, not at that event which the Cathaoirleach does not want me to call a tribal rally.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: I make a special plea to the Leader of the House——

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: ——that the Fianna Fáil Party, in a spirit of consensus and mercy, has compassion on Senator Cox when it comes to consider her case.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: It is a long held aspiration.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: Startling figures showing our high rate of personal credit, consumption and borrowing were issued yesterday by a company of stockbrokers owned by a bank. The ratio of personal debt to average income will rise from 120% to 160% in the next three years and we are now rated third highest in the euro zone. It is a source of alarm to international observers and the Central Bank that individuals...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: Rubbish.

Seanad: Ferns Report: Statements (Resumed). (15 Nov 2005)

Shane Ross: Senator Ó Murchú is correct in saying the debate in this House has been very responsible. It has been reflective and has looked at the prospects of the future as much as the horrors of the past. It is important that we should be unanimous, and we are, in our utter condemnation of what has happened. There are no words for the type of activities involved, and I agree with Senator Bannon...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Shane Ross: I do not share the hypnotic effect a PhD seems to have on most Members of this House. I suspect that if I had discovered Mr. McSweeney did not have a PhD, I would have promoted him rather than seen to it that he lost his job. I do not really understand this great fascination that the guy should or should not have a PhD if he is qualified for the job.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Shane Ross: If he did not have one, it is even better.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Shane Ross: I support Senator Ryan's call for a debate on the property market which has two very serious aspects. The first is that the construction industry is a pillar of the boom in the economy——