Results 1,341-1,360 of 19,173 for speaker:Shane Ross
- Seanad: Cycling Facilities. (15 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: This Adjournment motion is about the need for the Government to improve facilities for cyclists in Dublin city. I am aware that the Minister is issuing what he calls a sustainable travel and transport plan and will be bringing it to Cabinet in the coming weeks. It is a very ambitious plan to put 150,000 commuters on the roads, and substitute them for cars by 2020. However, it is a plan...
- Seanad: Cycling Facilities. (15 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: I am not a member of the Opposition.
- Seanad: Cycling Facilities. (15 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I believe his heart is in the right place. He said that achieving a shift to the bicycle of this magnitude will require actions. That is pretty flabby. Are there commitments to carry out these actions or are they aspirations? Will they be carried out? Is the money there for them or are they simply what the Department of Transport has listed...
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: Why?
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: I am sure Senator Norris will be pleased with the reference to Independent Members' sitting on the boards of the banks, even though he is not here to hear it. No doubt someone will convey it to him in due course. The speech made by the Minister of State confirmed some of the difficulties many of us have with this scheme. It is as difficult, as the Fine Gael Party has found, to oppose a...
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: Lots and lots of tax breaks for property. That is where the connivance of the Government lies. These have been extended time and time again, giving developers a field day. Let us not pretend that is not the truth. Let us allocate the blame a bit here and a bit there, but let us not take the line that we are the victim of a global problem. It is my contention that whatever the merits of...
- Seanad: Postgraduate Medical Training (21 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: Will the same Minister be taking this matter? The Minister, Deputy Martin, would do it very well as he is a former Minister for Health and Children. He would probably be happy to take it.
- Seanad: Postgraduate Medical Training (21 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: Not yet; next year. This matter relates to the need for the Minister for Health and Children to address the lack of specialist registrar training in maxillofacial surgery. This specialist area includes treatment of afflictions relating to facial trauma and cancer of the head, neck and tongue. It is a surgical specialty in which the lack of training is acute and disturbing. To qualify for...
- Seanad: Postgraduate Medical Training (21 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: I would like to ask two supplementary questions. When can we expect a training programme to be made available? Can the Minister of State explain what in the name of God she meant when she said "reasons cited for withdrawal of approval included a lack of complexity in workload"?
- Seanad: Postgraduate Medical Training (21 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: What does the phrase "lack of complexity in workload" mean? I do not know what it means. I do not understand it.
- Seanad: Postgraduate Medical Training (21 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: Like Senator McFadden I had expected not to be called. I had rather hoped not to be called and to be called first tomorrow but I will accept my lot. I support the calls that have been made for a debate on education. That is a crying need and the issue that will erupt in the next week but we cannot get the Minister for Education and Science in here because the Minister is in China, and it...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: The wrong people are talking about the wrong issues while the Taoiseach and the Minister who should be here are on the other side of the world.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: There is major confusion, and I ask the Leader to address this, that investment has got nothing to do with education but with pounds, shillings and pence. The Government has taken a view that education funding can be cut in the same way as public finances in other areas, in other words, taxation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: We urgently need a debate on education, which does not address just the issue of how much can be saved but the long-term vision.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: I ask the Leader to give us a commitment that when the Minister, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, has stopped giving interviews about education â about which he is not in touch â from the other side of the world, he will come in here either tomorrow â there is time for him to get back here, where he should be â or early next week for a debate on education.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: I certainly do not represent any financial institutions. If the Leaderââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: Are we obliged to take the remainder of what the Leader says as seriously as we must take that comment?
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: I do not trust myself.
- Seanad: Broadband Infrastructure Bill 2008: Order for Second Stage (22 Oct 2008)
Shane Ross: I move: "That Second Stage be taken today."