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Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Shane Ross: More Jekyll and Hyde.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Shane Ross: In view of the fact that the issue of the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland and junkets has arisen, I wish to make a statement. I have a vested interest in that I was the author of the story that appeared in the Sunday Independent. I should say that before saying anything else. The Central Bank of Ireland, perhaps above all institutions of the State, should be...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Shane Ross: Yes I have. It is damaged by the emergence of these issues, but it is rightly damaged. It is right that these things should emerge. In light of what has happened in recent days, I ask the Leader of the House for a debate, not only on the powers but also on the behaviour of the Central Bank of Ireland. These are the guys who were so close to the banks that they did not regulate them...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Shane Ross: My final question for the Leader is as follows. In order to allow us to debate the matter perhaps we should even bring in and interview the new Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, who is so accessible, to ask him——

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Shane Ross: ——what he intends to do about the blatant overspending in the Central Bank of Ireland.

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (10 Feb 2010)

Shane Ross: I wish to share time with Senator Norris.

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (10 Feb 2010)

Shane Ross: There is no quick fix to this problem. One of the gloomy results of debates such as this is that people offer peripheral answers to a fundamental problem. Unemployment has spiked at a level that is quite uncontrollable. The Government, like everybody else, has been taken by surprise. The spike in unemployment cannot be solved by a short-term solution. In the 1980s, mentioned by Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Shane Ross: I endorse what many have said about the issue of employment being so important at present. It has been highlighted, as everybody will be aware, by the spat between the chief executive of Ryanair, Mr. Michael O'Leary, and the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Coughlan, in the past few days. If one could put the theatricals aside for a minute, Mr. O'Leary has...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Shane Ross: -----as to the role of the DAA. Is it actually obstructing jobs? Is it a politically-appointed body with a board which does very little which has for long served the interests of Fianna Fáil? Can we do something about that in this House-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Shane Ross: -----immediately and debate the issue, not so much of general employment but of the role these two semi-State bodies are playing in obstructing jobs?

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Shane Ross: I endorse what Senator Hannigan said about the student support Bill. Many of us have already been lobbied this morning about that in Buswell's Hotel. The Leader of the House might be able to tell us where the Bill is and what is happening to it. I think it is sitting somewhere in Merrion Street and has been for two years. The least the students should get is some indication of when it...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Shane Ross: In view of what was said today in the House, perhaps we should hold a debate on cronyism. I do not mind which Minister attends because they are all at it. Perhaps it would be appropriate that the debate on State agencies and semi-State companies should highlight the extraordinary curse of cronyism in this country. What has been said by Senators on both sides is perfectly fair. Both of the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2010)

Shane Ross: I see why Members on this side of the House want an urgent debate on what happened in Tallaght Hospital. That is important and it would be very useful if we had one. However, what Senator O'Toole said is correct that the knee-jerk reaction of some politicians when something happens in a vast Department like the Department of Health and Children of calling for the resignation of the Minister...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Mar 2010)

Shane Ross: I agree with Senators Coffey, Donohoe and O'Toole. It is imperative that we have a debate on the DDDA now. The DDDA situation stinks to high heaven. It is quite obvious that what was going on in there was completely unacceptable. What we do not know is the facts. There is political accountability for what happened in the DDDA because the Government appointed the chairman and the board....

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Mar 2010)

Shane Ross: One political party recently and certainly since the DDDA was founded because that was only in 1997.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Mar 2010)

Shane Ross: Certainly, one of those I have mentioned is a fund-raiser for Fianna Fáil. Is that the only reason that he was appointed?

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Mar 2010)

Shane Ross: That is what I am asking for. We have heard a great deal about the Anglo Irish Bank pay rises. There appears to be a kind of elite at the top of the public service which can break the freeze or reductions in public service pay. This has arisen not only at Anglo Irish Bank but among higher civil servants numbering approximately 600 and in the case of the guys at the top of NAMA, which was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Mar 2010)

Shane Ross: This is my last sentence. Apparently, at the top of the Civil Service in the Department of Finance there is a hidden hand who can slip people through these restrictions which other people at the bottom must endure.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Shane Ross: I am not as certain about Senator Fitzgerald's proposal for a debate on banking as other Members on this side of the House. Quite honestly, I am not sure the bankers take any notice-----