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Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jun 2006)

Shane Ross: None of them has even been offered a job.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Shane Ross: I wish to endorse the calls made by several Senators in recent weeks that the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children come to the House to discuss a variety of issues. I particularly seek a debate on the Adelaide Hospital. The leaders of the Adelaide Hospital are meeting the Taoiseach today about what they regard as a highly critical situation for the hospital. Their problem is that a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: I thank Senator Norris for his support in respect of the Adelaide Hospital.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: I shall give the Senator equal support——

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: I endorse the call for a debate on financial institutions. It is important to realise that we are in a position of dangerous overlending. This is not exclusive to credit cards. Banks are lending people money which they will not be able to pay back, giving them a short-term injection for a long-term burden. That will be serious if the economy takes any sort of downturn. Banks lend at between...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: We call in all sorts of people under other guises.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: If the Committee on Procedure and Privileges decided it was possible it would be. The bankers have appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: In that case let us change the terms of reference. They are there to be changed.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: I am making a serious point. I see no reason people of that stature and power in our society should not be answerable to parliamentary committees. There is no reason the Seanad should not call them in. While they lend so much money which will cause so much misery, some bankers draw sums of up to €2.8 million in salary per annum. That is the figure revealed for at least one banker. It would...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: Why not?

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: I endorse some of the comments of my colleagues about the dangers of a decision being made on Aer Lingus during the recess. There is a general principle involved here. I do not join the opportunist bellyaching which always comes from some parts of the House about a long recess but it would be extremely regrettable for the Government to use the recess as an opportunity for taking important...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (6 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: A motion in favour of social partnership was recently passed almost unanimously in this House. Today, the same trade union that is leading the drive for social partnership and promising industrial peace as its part of the bargain is calling a strike at Dublin Airport. We must ensure SIPTU can no longer have it both ways. These people are antediluvian in their outlook on industrial relations....

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (6 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: Yes. I ask for a debate on the role of SIPTU in the national economy and in what is happening today. It is completely out of synch not only with IMPACT, which is behaving responsibly, but also with the workers it represents. This is a power play. When SIPTU leaders called a meeting last week, only some 40 out of 1,800 members attended. The leadership of SIPTU does not have the support of its...

Seanad: Building Societies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: I share Senator O'Toole's rather romantic view of a perfect world and how it would be very nice if we could all support each other in buying houses. I was a great believer in mutual societies for a long time because I thought that they were doing that. The evidence now is that this does not happen any more. None of the building societies remaining does this and would not survive in the market...

Seanad: Hospital Services. (6 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: I am raising the issue of the run-down of the capital investment and the Government's commitment to the Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Tallaght. Concerns have been expressed by the hospital as the result of recent decisions. It is not just the recent decision on the location of the proposed national children's hospital. While the Adelaide may be losing its children's hospital, for some time...

Seanad: Hospital Services. (6 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: I wish to ask a supplementary question as I believe I am entitled to do. I thank the Minister of State for departing from that particularly irrelevant brief, for which I do not blame him. I appreciate that he took the trouble to answer some of the questions and undertook to report my inquiry on the children's hospital and the dangers attached to taking that to the Mater Hospital alone, to the...

Seanad: Hospital Services. (6 Jul 2006)

Shane Ross: With the Minister of State's brother?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Shane Ross: I endorse some of the words of Senators O'Toole, Ó Murchú and others on the restraint being shown on all sides of this House with regard to the political events of the past few days. It is extremely easy to sit in judgment on other people's integrity and exploit misfortunes for political advantage. I applaud that nobody in this House has done that. It is easy to convert the difficulties...

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Shane Ross: I move: That Seanad Éireann condemns the failure of the Government to ensure that broadband is available to every business and household in Ireland and calls on it to take immediate measures to remove us from the bottom of the European broadband league. Do I have 12 minutes?

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Shane Ross: I move this motion on broadband in the full knowledge and with certain surprise that the number of column inches and the number of minutes devoted to broadband in this and the other House is painfully small. In his reply I would like the Minister of State to outline why broadband has had so little prominence in Irish political life in recent years. It seems to be one of the crying problems...