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Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 539: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will grant a medical card to persons (details supplied). [9172/11]

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Shane Ross: With the permission of the House, I will share time with Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett and Clare Daly. A great opportunity has been missed by the Government. Let us conjure up the scene in the ECB many weeks ago and imagine what they were looking at in the Irish political scene. They saw a Government going out of power, having negotiated a deal about which the ECB must have been somewhat...

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I was deeply disappointed by the Minister's contribution. It appears that in respect of this problem all the Government has to offer is concern and sympathy. That really is not good enough for those who are affected by negative equity and by the extraordinary debts they have incurred as a result of the mortgages they took on. If the Minister is not taking the figures seriously, then he...

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Thank you. Why not enforce a system whereby the bankers who lent the money have to accept that they also have a stake in the equity, and if they overlent, they take equity instead of debt? If the equity is worth less, then that is their problem. They made a bad decision as well, and the borrower has suffered enough. Why not also look at the possibility whereby a borrower who cannot pay...

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (4 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 76: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the status of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9957/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (4 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his intentions regarding retired civil servants applying for Civil Service positions. [9955/11]

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (4 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide clarity on a timeframe of a citizenship application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [9956/11]

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (10 May 2011)

Shane Ross: And a half.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (10 May 2011)

Shane Ross: This initiative was our first opportunity to judge the new Government on its merits and on its own measures. I am sympathetic to the Government's daily mantra in the House, that is, to blame the current main Opposition party for the state in which the former inherited the country. This can carry some weight for a short period, but this is the first time we can point to the Government's part...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (10 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I am just finishing. The result of this is that the austerity measures will result in a contraction of the economy. Bringing in more multinationals would expand consumer spending and possibly allow us to break out of the extraordinary spiral we are in, but the measures announced today are unlikely to help in any significant way.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Shane Ross: There seems to be a broad consensus around the House that this was a modest effort at creating jobs and nobody seems to disagree with the efforts made by the Government to do so. The problem is on the other side, on the tax on what the Minister referred to yesterday as the pensions industry. There is a certain misnomer or misunderstanding about what he was saying. If he was tackling the...

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Yes. In view of the fact that a whole industry is looting pensioners and benefiting from their contributions, did the Government consider putting a cap on pension fund fees – in other words, charges for managers – and then putting a 50% tax on them? Such a move would have produced a figure very close to the €470 million figure the Government came up with for its job creation fund.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I thank the Taoiseach for his constructive reply. Will he consider going further and investigating the entire pension funds industry?

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Shane Ross: It is a swamp of hidden fees, upfront fees and riches for people who do not deliver to the people they are milking.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Shane Ross: The Taoiseach is taking straight out the hands of the contributors when he could take, if not an equivalent a proportionate sum, out of the hands of those drawing large amounts of money in hidden and upfront fees.

Electoral (Amendment) (Political Donations) Bill 2011: Second Stage (resumed) (11 May 2011)

Shane Ross: This is a problem which I do not believe is easily soluble but I welcome the fact it has reached the House so early in the session. If we are honest money buys votes. All the surveys on this suggest that money does buy votes. The question that arises is whether money buys politicians as well. The Irish experience in recent times indicates that money also buys politicians. How to avoid...

Report of the Standing Order 103 Select Committee: Motion (17 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I congratulate everybody who has spoken on the motion and the degree of unanimity is very welcome. We are tip-toeing around the issue because what is happening here is very obvious. It is a nakedly political issue and in considering the timing of what is going on, it is obvious that this is related to what is happening on corporate tax or our negotiations with the ECB, the EU and the IMF....

Written Answers — Banking Sector: Banking Sector (17 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of expressions of interest or responses he has received to his requests for interests in board vacancies at the banks; the number of candidates who fulfilled the necessary criteria; if all responses will receive replies; the persons who will be conducting the interviews; if the final decision on the appointments will rest with the...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (19 May 2011)

Shane Ross: On behalf of the Technical Group I wish to join in the sympathy expressed by all parties to the family of Dr. Garret FitzGerald, especially to John, Mark and Mary. I should state the first day I was in the Seanad, Dr. Garret FitzGerald was Taoiseach and he brought his constitutional crusade to the Seanad on that day. That was the initial move in a crusade the culmination of which we saw...

Leaders' Questions. (24 May 2011)

Shane Ross: In the light of the immensely successful visits to this country by President Obama and the Queen of England and the re-establishment of very close links between friends, for which welcome and successful visits I congratulate the Taoiseach and the Government, I wonder if the Taoiseach might approach Europe with a greater degree of self-confidence, a quality that has not been evident in...