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Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: He should resign.

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I would like to highlight the need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to ensure access to export credit insurance for exporters. I am sorry the Tánaiste, Deputy Coughlan, is not present for this debate. It is not unusual for a senior Minister to be absent in these circumstances. It is nice to see the Minister of State is here.

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: That is even better. I acknowledge that for the first time, a Minister of State represents an improvement on the senior Minister. The matter I am raising is very relevant in light of this afternoon's Budget Statement. If the economy is to come out of recession, it will be led by exports. It is important for the Government to recognise the need to help exports and exporters in any way...

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He does not expect me to accept it but-----

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I get to disappoint the Minister of State as well. I wish to ask him about the release of the report.

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I will be brief but I am entitled to ask a question. I do not accept that commercial sensitivities are a good enough reason for not issuing the report. Would the Minister of State consider releasing it with the commercially sensitive parts redacted? If there are commercially sensitive elements they could be removed, as happens with many other reports, and let the findings and the reasons...

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: Ignore that.

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: Another report has been buried.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I assume the Leader is able to indicate whether the Minister for Finance will be in the House this afternoon for the debate on the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: Appearing on the "Today with Pat Kenny" is one thing, but the Seanad is a different place. The Leader might be interested in knowing that.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I genuinely do not see much point in having debates on issues of such importance if some political poodle is to be sent to listen to what we have to say and not even bother to convey that message to the Minister for Finance who is elsewhere. We should certainly accommodate the Minister by having a debate at a time that suits him, which is perfectly reasonable. However, I do not believe it...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I thank the Senator for her interruption. This is a budget which apparently gives oxygen to the quangos. What happened to the attack on semi-State bodies and State agencies we were expecting? What happened to the attack on public expenditure waste? That is what is so important. I should like the Leader to answer these points, specifically the one about whether the Minister for Finance,...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: A bond supported by ICTU. That is a first.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: They are experts in the field.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: They did not do so last week.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: Senator Ó Murchú is correct.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Statements (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I am sorry the senior Minister is not here. The Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, may raise his eyes to heaven, but I am sick and tired of having debates in a vacuum here, where the Minister for Finance and other Ministers do not come in.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Statements (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: We would be prepared, I believe, to fit into the Minister's timetable, in the event. It is a farce that continuously for debates on important subjects senior Ministers do not come here, and there is no point in pretending. I wish Deputy Mansergh was in the Cabinet. I am sure he would be a very fine Cabinet Minister, but he is not-----

Seanad: Budget 2010: Statements (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I do not give two hoots what happened during the Minister of State's years in the Seanad.