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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: I ask the Leader to request the Minister for Finance to attend the House. The Minister has done very well in removing some of the top brass in the banks and he should be applauded for doing so. Some ten of the 12 covered institutions have lost either their chairman or chief executive, and the Minister has acted with great skill. Everybody in this House has been looking for a significant...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: Although the Minister has removed these personnel, he seems to be replacing them all with the old guard. There was a chorus of applause, which will increase, at the appointment of Mr. Pat Molloy this morning as chairman of the Bank of Ireland. This is just more of the old guard coming back. What the Minister has done with Bank of Ireland is appoint a chief executive who is an insider and a...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: I am not naming anybody. A chairman was also appointed to Anglo Irish Bank from inside, which is not good enough. There is an appearance of change in the banks but we are getting the same people or former employees coming back into the same positions.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: Nobody should be deceived by that. The Minister acted in a similar way in cases which I will not mention. There have been one or two good appointments as well and I will name somebody who I want to be positive about. Mr. Alan Dukes was appointed to the board of Anglo Irish Bank because he does not come with any baggage. There are others in this category. Will the Minister come to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: Here we go again.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: On a point of order, could I decline that at this stage?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: The poor things. We dare not put up with that.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: God help them, God love them.

Seanad: Elections of June 2009: Statements (11 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: I thank Senator Bradford for sharing time. I would like to wander around this topic the way everybody else has without being very specific about it. The initial reaction to the election results is for one to be somewhat puzzled. If anybody gives them any thought, he or she would come to the conclusion that the extraordinary rejection of the Government in these elections is not only a...

Seanad: Public Transport (11 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: I wish to raise the need for the Minister for Transport to instruct Dublin Bus to cease predatory activities against private operators in the Dublin region, as exemplified by the recent issues between Swords Express and Dublin Bus. The Minister for Transport will be familiar with the issue of the Dublin Bus monopoly indulging in predatory pricing. Circle Line has already claimed that it was...

Seanad: Public Transport (11 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: Dublin Bus has been told it cannot use public funds to run this service. Does that mean it can no longer run the service or must it somehow prove it is not using public funds to run the service? How does it do that?

Seanad: Public Transport (11 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: How does it demonstrate that it is not using public funds?

Seanad: Public Transport (11 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: Will the Minister of State ask the Department to provide me with a clarification of this matter?

Seanad: Information and Communications Technologies: Motion (17 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: I hope Senator Martin Brady's words do not carry to the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party, and further. The Senator will be joining Mr. Joe Higgins MEP if he continues in that vein. I am sure it is not a particularly popular view on the Government benches but it is welcome to hear such fresh opinions from those benches and I congratulate the Senator on expressing them.

Seanad: Information and Communications Technologies: Motion (17 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: I welcome the Fine Gael amendment. The issue of broadband has only recently been discovered in this House and I see very little evidence of it being debated in the other House. It is possibly the most important technological issue facing Ireland today. I find it difficult to approach this motion and the attitudes of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party to it because I tabled two Bills in this...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: If I could share some of the humble pie Senator O'Toole is dishing around the Independent benches——

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: ——on the basis that there is great rejoicing in the kingdom of heaven for the return of repentant sinners, I hope that the Leader will allow us to have a debate on the Lisbon treaty in order that everyone on these benches can revise their position.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: Including myself.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: The House will possibly have noticed that last week the credit rating of this country was downgraded in a very serious way by Standard & Poors. One of the results of this was that the euro tumbled steeply on foreign exchange markets. That development was received extraordinarily badly among our European partners. The latter have begun to regard Ireland and its economy and banking system...

Seanad: Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (25 Jun 2009)

Shane Ross: I wish to share time with Senators Bacik and Mullen. My first point might antagonise to some extent the Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, for whom I have great admiration. This is a very important Bill which should have been fitted into the Minister's timetable because it is a reflection on the Seanad and its Members that we do not have the real McCoy here when debating an issue as...