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Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: I am glad the Minister of State is awake.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (29 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: I thank Senator Alex White for tabling this recommendation which I would have thought was self-evidently necessary. The elephant in the room in considering such tax incentives is that they have been abused in the past. They have been used to put things in various areas for political preference, as Members have just heard in this Chamber, as speakers have commented on how they have done a...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (29 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: In that case, let us have a cost-benefit analysis. Senator Mary White should note that a cost-benefit analysis has been conducted of such incentives. The Minister or his officials will be aware that both Indecon and Goodbody Economic Consultants examined all of these tax benefits in the raw and the round some years ago and came up with some startling conclusions. They concluded that some...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: Shame.

Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Mar 2011)

Shane Ross: I congratulate the Ceann Comhairle on his election to the high office which he has achieved. It is a particularly great achievement considering that he retired from this House eight years ago and will be automatically re-elected at the next election. I say that with great sincerity and I know he will be a very fine Ceann Comhairle. I rise to announce the first split in the Technical Group...

Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Mar 2011)

Shane Ross: It is against the rule for Deputy Durkan to interrupt a maiden speech.

Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Mar 2011)

Shane Ross: I wish to say a brief word about Ministers' salaries, something which may not affect Deputy Durkan this evening. However, Deputy Kenny is a forgiving type and one would never know. I fear that because of the parameters and restrictions of the economy, the Government will almost inevitably yield to the temptation to be a Government so similar to the previous one, perhaps not in its style or...

Programme for Government: Motion (15 Mar 2011)

Shane Ross: I assure the Deputy he is not alone in feeling that way. I wish signal to the Taoiseach certain dangers that arise from what is happening this afternoon. The strongest applause for his programme for Government appears to have come from those who previously occupied his position. I was struck by the remarks of Deputy Martin, the Leader of the Opposition, who advised that the Taoiseach...

Programme for Government: Motion (15 Mar 2011)

Shane Ross: The dangers of which they should be aware have been particularly evident in Europe over the past ten days. I wish the Taoiseach God speed and good luck in his negotiations in Europe but he is landed in an extraordinarily difficult situation. To have found himself already retreating from the position held by the previous Government is a perilous development. The issue raised on the Order of...

Programme for Government: Motion (15 Mar 2011)

Shane Ross: It is an omission therefore. It is very noticeably not there.

Programme for Government: Motion (15 Mar 2011)

Shane Ross: That is fine.

Programme for Government: Motion (15 Mar 2011)

Shane Ross: This is a retreat from the programme the Taoiseach previously proposed. It is an apology for election promises. This is regrettable and the Government should be very careful if it is being praised by Fianna Fáil, the party which landed us in this mess.

Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2011)

Shane Ross: I have some sympathy with the Taoiseach when he receives abuse for the transgressions on the spoils of war from the quarters from which he has received it today. I find it difficult to take because I see those who are accusing him as being equally guilty of things of which they are now accusing the Taoiseach. That does not mean, however, that he should not answer for what happened at that...

Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2011)

Shane Ross: Will that the Taoiseach answer the question about moving against the semi-State boards, as pledged by Deputy Bruton? Will the Taoiseach end the system of political appointments to State bodies that has been so abused, not just by Fianna Fáil but by Fine Gael and the Labour Party in the past? There is no indication that the Government will end that abuse in the future. Many of us on the...

Corporation Tax: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2011)

Shane Ross: Less than three years ago I went on a radio programme with the then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Martin, to discuss the Lisbon treaty mark one. I voted against the treaty because the French Government was showing signs of launching an attack on our corporate tax rate of 12.5% and introducing tax harmonisation. It is no credit to me that the Minister scoffed at me at the time and...

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2011)

Shane Ross: I agree with the Taoiseach on one point. Plenty of clarity and certainty has been introduced. The clarity and certainty is that the Government has utterly surrendered to the IMF and EU. They know that, we know that and everybody knows that. "Default" is, apparently, the word that cannot be mentioned in this Chamber. Is the Taoiseach happy that the greatest cheerleaders for his policy and...

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2011)

Shane Ross: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I would have thought a man of the Taoiseach's intelligence and knowledge would be aware of the serious dangers of setting up two major banks of that sort. The Taoiseach and I am sure everyone else in the House will remember what happened when Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland dominated the market in the past, namely, they ran a cartel or, at least,...

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (6 Apr 2011)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (6 Apr 2011)

Shane Ross: I wish to respond, in what appears to be an increasingly common trend in this House, to the main Opposition spokesman's contribution on this matter. The Minister for Finance must shiver in his shoes on every occasion on which certain Opposition Members congratulate him on what he is doing. It is increasingly common for these individuals to state that what he is doing is great because it...

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister for taking this motion seriously and acknowledging that it was tabled in a serious fashion. Some of us resent the dismissive nature of some of the Fine Gael Members' attitudes to this motion, which they described as populist. That was not the intention; our intention in putting this motion down is to produce an alternative policy. There is an alternative policy. The...