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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: On 20 December, there will be much fanfare and transport triumph when the port tunnel is opened in Dublin. We should debate road infrastructure and traffic congestion in Dublin. When the tunnel is opened, it will only transfer a problem from one area of Dublin to the M50. An extra 9,500 vehicles will be forced to use the motorway every day. The position on infrastructure is chronic. If,...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: It should happen now.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: I endorse the remarks made by Senator Brian Hayes and congratulate the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Brian Lenihan, on his decision to review the location of the planned children's hospital. It is especially courageous of the Minister in question because the location proposed is the Mater Hospital, which is in the Taoiseach's constituency, and it is not...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: Will the Leader consider asking the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Brian Lenihan, to attend the House to expand on his very enlightened remarks and suggest a new system involving, at the very least, a hub, which could be the Mater if political imperatives so demand, with spokes around the city at other hospitals accessible to children through the traffic?...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: Was it just a coincidence that it ended up in the Taoiseach's constituency?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear. Brilliant.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: Senator Mansergh would attack it anyway.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: The members of the Fianna Fáil Party must wake up every morning and say, "Thank God for Senator Mansergh."

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: It appears to me that nobody has walked the intellectual tightrope better than Senator Mansergh did this afternoon. Set the task of defending what is after all pretty well indefensible, he resorted to that great trick of attacking a speech that has not yet been made and, unlike others in the House, is not scripted, so it is difficult to anticipate, and defended a budget that has not been...

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: I will give Senator Mansergh something constructive to say if I keep going. We are talking about a tiny amount of money to be saved by a large number of people who badly need houses. Quite honestly, I do not care if this comes about through the abolition of stamp duty, mortgage relief or by injecting that money straight into people's pockets. This is a justifiable cause and a justifiable...

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: The Senator had to waffle. Every word of what the Senator said was waffle. Not a single word of it was anything but waffle.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: Is there a doctor in the House? There are problems other than stamp duty in the housing market. When Senator Mansergh said there was no property capital tax in the housing market he was wrong. Property tax and capital gains tax applies to anybody who owns a second house. Anybody who sells a house on more than one acre has to pay capital gains tax.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: The Senator should have said so. It would have been a fact rather than waffle.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: When Senator Mansergh does not tell us what he is talking about until afterwards, it is very difficult for us to know to what he is referring.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: It is kind of him to interrupt anyway. There are one or two other problems in this market which should be highlighted. The problems of moving are huge for people, not for first-time buyers. If one moves from a €1 million house which is not exorbitant any more, one pays auctioneers fees of probably 2%, approximately €20,000, and solicitor's fees of €10,000. If one moves into an...

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

Shane Ross: That is why the Senator said nothing. There is a very good case for removing the stamp duty or changing it in such a way that there is more mobility in the market.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)

Shane Ross: I long for the day when the Government produces a budget, whether it is to its credit or not, and a member of the Opposition in this House says: "Yes. On balance, this was a good budget. They did reasonably well." I long for the day that the Opposition comes to the House and treats a budget seriously and does not just pick on it and say this, that and the other is bad. Undoubtedly, this...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)

Shane Ross: Senator Phelan is behaving in the way I have described. Opposition Senators should have said that this is a good budget and that they approve of it.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)

Shane Ross: They should have declared their intention to vote for it.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)

Shane Ross: Rather than acting in such a manner, they decided to engage in a kind of mock war. Everybody knows that this budget was easy to produce. In my view, it was a particular reflection of the Government's management of the economy over the last few years. This is not very easy for me to say because I have spent my life opposing Fianna Fáil in many ways. I do not doubt that the ease with which...