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Seanad: Request to Move Adjournment of the Seanad under Standing Order 30 (11 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: I wish to raise under Standing Order 30 an important matter of public interest, namely that Seanad Éireann discuss the latest crisis in Irish banking. We have seen today, particularly from the Fianna Fáil benches, an obvious desire for a serious discussion on what is a completely new dimension in the Irish banking industry. We have seen all-party concern about the matter. It is almost a...

Seanad: Request to Move Adjournment of the Seanad under Standing Order 30 (11 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: If the nation was in a state of war would you have the same verdict?

Seanad: Request to Move Adjournment of the Seanad under Standing Order 30 (11 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: Okay. We will declare war then.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: Yes, they were.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: I wish to endorse what previous speakers stated with regard to Irish Life & Permanent being put in the frame in respect of this matter. My understanding of this matter, which is based only on press reports, is that if the transaction in question took the extraordinarily circuitous route outlined - which was utterly deceitful - it was not actually Irish Life & Permanent's funds which were...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: It is extraordinarily difficult to understand how or why this happened. The two main banks had no cards with which to play but they have emerged victorious. They will be given €7 billion and all they have been asked to do is provide some form of financing for small businesses. Apparently they will increase the amounts they were previously giving to such businesses by 10%. They were not...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: Yes, I must think of one.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: I wish to ask the Leader for a specific debate on this matter. There is a cartel in operation whereby those involved with the banks go to their AGMs and vote for each other. I regret to say that we will not be pacified by the fig leaves being offered by the Minister for Finance. I agree with what Senator Leyden said yesterday and today. Directors offering to take tiny drops in salary is...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Statements (12 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: I propose to share time with Senators Norris, Quinn and Bacik. I thank Senator Butler for his free investment advice on buying land. I remind him that the Senator Cassidy offered similar advice from the same seat not so long ago.

Seanad: Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Statements (12 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: About 18 months ago, Senator Cassidy told us to buy property. While I do not know what would have been the results of any such investment, I doubt if Senator Butler is in the right place to offer similar advice. I welcome the Minister of State to the House. His speech amounted to a statement by the Government that it is waving a white flag. It is an appalling document which demonstrates an...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: I support the Senators who have called for identification of those involved in the support operation for Anglo Irish Bank. The sooner it is done, the better because there is a kind of opaqueness about what is going on with this shadowy carry-on which people cannot understand and which nobody is prepared to reveal to them.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: There are people not far away from here who know those names. It certainly would relieve some of the reasonable public disquiet if they were released without any prejudice. That said, we are in danger every day in this House of whistling past the graveyard. I ask the Leader to comment on the following. I have a great deal of sympathy with much of what was said on the economy on all sides...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: I have. I want to ask the Leader if we could have a debate on a particular aspect of this. That is a question which everybody outside this country is muttering. One can see by the credit rating in the international markets what they think. The answer is we are in danger of defaulting at some stage. It is an issue we will have to face up to because it is the kind of situation we are in....

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: I am asking for a debate on this for the following reason. The Financial Regulator is an institution which has lost the faith of the international markets. They do not think it can do it because they think it is absolutely genetically flawed. That is the problem we will have to attack next. We will have to face it because it is no good not facing these appalling facts which the...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (19 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: I raise the need for the Minister for Education and Science to reverse his decision to cut special teacher support for children with mild learning disabilities in St. Teresa's school, Balbriggan. I cannot understand why children with special needs should be victims of cuts, especially those in education. We agree that everybody should take his or her fair share of the pain but I do not...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (19 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister of State for his reply, in which he read, "The Minister, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe is open to listening to proposals from schools where they can demonstrate that it is educationally more beneficial for the pupils involved to be in a special class of their own rather than to be integrated with their peers and supported by the mainstream classroom teacher and the learning...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (19 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: From whom should the proposals come: the teachers or the parents?

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (19 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: It was deliberately omitted then.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.