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Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the names of the most highly paid officials in his Department over the past three years; the basic salaries paid to them; the bonuses paid to them; the expenses incurred by them; the details of any bonuses not paid to top officials for which they were eligible; if officials in his Department are better paid than equivalent...

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I am happy if the Minister does not want to read out the figures and just replies to the substantive issues I raised.

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Will the Minister outline details of bonuses paid to top officials and say, in particular, if they have been paid recently? Are officials in his Department paid more than those in equivalent grades in other Departments? If so, why? Will this practice continue?

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I do not understand why officials in the Department of Finance should be paid more than anybody else in the public service. The figures the Minister read out are pretty staggering even in their reduced form. Will he comment on the fact that officials in the Department, long regarded as the crème de la crème of the public service, are for some extraordinary reason paid more than other...

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Deputy Doherty raised the issue of Colm Doherty, the chief executive office of AIB, being paid outrageous amounts, which were obviously signed off by individuals at the highest level in the Department of Finance, who themselves are on this gravy train. Is the Minister satisfied with the continuing process whereby these people are paid more and, in turn, award more in redundancy payments to...

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I have one quick supplementary question.

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: It is just one sentence. These are the people who have prime responsibility for the economic collapse and these are the people who are paid most for their actual performance. Is the Minister satisfied with that?

Commissions of Investigation (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Finance the process whereby the nominees as members of the expert investigation team to assist the Nyberg Commission were made; the person who made the appointments; with whom did Mr. Nyberg consult on the appointments; on whose recommendation they were made; and the amount the team was paid collectively and individually. [9899/11]

Commissions of Investigation (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister but I am afraid he has not satisfactorily answered the question. If I could specifically readdress the question to him, it was how the appointments were made and how the individuals were selected. It is reasonable to ask the question about the arrival from Finland of a man to set up a 13-person commission and how he came to assemble it, particularly when one considers...

Commissions of Investigation (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Is it satisfactory to the Minister that a majority of those people who were advising the commission, chosen, apparently, by Mr. Peter Nyberg, should be either bankers or former officials of the Department of Finance? Is it not correct as a result that at the very least we should know how those people were chosen? What is so unsatisfactory in the response which the Minister has given - he...

Commissions of Investigation (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I seek a "Yes" or "No" response from the Minister. His reply confirms my worst suspicions that it was the Department of Finance, again, which gave Mr. Nyberg the initial advice, which brings me back to my initial question, on the appointment of people from the Department of Finance, again, to sit with him on the commission and bankers. The Minister was not in office at the time. Does he...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I congratulate the Taoiseach on the marriage last Friday of one of his Ministers of State, who is seated behind him, to a Member of the Upper House. I hope she will not have any divided loyalties when she is obliged to vote for the abolition by referendum of the House of which her husband is a Member. The second congratulations I wish to extend to the Taoiseach is on a serious matter. I...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: In view of the fact that the Government makes each appointment after seven names are submitted to it, would the Taoiseach consider introducing similar reforms in the appointment of members of the Judiciary to those he has promised to introduce in the case of appointments to other State bodies? In other words, will he allow those whom he and the Government propose to put on the Bench to be...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: She did not invite a Member of the Technical Group to the wedding.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: One day.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Is the Taoiseach satisfied that there are ten members on the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board? Without going into the details relating to the entire board, I point out that three of the members are known as lay members. These three members of the board have retired and this has resulted in a corresponding number of vacancies. When it was in office, the previous Government filled such...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: -----who previously ran as a Fianna Fáil candidate for election to Europe.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I did not have time to research the third person put forward for appointment but I suspect that individual possesses similar credentials to the other two. Will the Taoiseach provide an assurance that he will not fill the vacancies to which I refer with the same political bias as that displayed by his predecessors?

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the decision of AIB public interest directors to approve the payment of a €3 million compensation package to the last chief executive (details supplied) of AIB; if he intends to support their continuation in office; and when he intends to make further appointments to the boards of banks. [9900/11]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 382: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Ombudsman's investigation into the South Dublin County Council Part 8 process with regard to Taylor's Lane has not been concluded, and that he has given written assurances on numerous occasions that no decision to expend scarce financial resources will be...