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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the nature and conclusion of discussions with the developer of the strategic development zone lands at Adamstown in Lucan in County Dublin regarding the provision of the sports hall requirement in the current phase; the discussions to date with South Dublin County Council regarding the joining of the sports hall element with the equally...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the long-standing delay in giving the go-ahead for the much needed extension at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; if she will give a commitment to include it in the final list of school building programmes to be announced during the lifetime of this Government, expected in the coming days; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the channels available to enable drivers who were working prior to the introduction of the new certificate of professional competence regulations, but who subsequently lost their jobs, to upskill at a nearby training centre, without incurring a cost while on social protection, given that there are certified courses nationwide which cost money...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 162. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make a formal announcement regarding South Dublin County Council's request to add local area plan lands at Clonburris into the existing Clonburris strategic development zone to create a larger strategic development zone which can be planned better in terms of phasing community need and infrastructure alongside...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 163. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has carried out studies or followed international best practice regarding how the increased cost of construction of a three bed or four bed semi-detached or detached home to passive house standards, including the option of solar arrays and water collection systems, would be offset by savings to a householder over a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Swimming Pool Projects (20 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions he or the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Michael Ring, held with the chief executive officer of South Dublin County Council or other officials, following meetings with the local Minister, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, in order to facilitate...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Compensation Fund (13 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount taxpayers have paid into the Insurance Fund since the liquidation of Insurance Corporation of Ireland. [46811/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Personal Public Service Numbers (13 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 566. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that opticians are requiring a PPS number from customers when privately purchasing spectacles, if this is as a result of his guidelines or if it is optional; if it is an expansion of PPSN provision requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46574/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (13 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 714. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the medical condition of a person (details supplied); if he has received information from the Egyptian authorities on whether this person's trial will go ahead in the near future, the supports being provided to this person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46481/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Staff (13 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 771. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the employment control framework for higher education for the period 2010 to 2014 remains in force; the conditions governing it and how these were agreed; when it will lapse; if higher education institutions are required to continue to adhere to the senior-junior staff ratios as per the framework; the procedures available to deviate from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Staff (13 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 772. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or other bodies have the power to impose sanctions on higher education institutions that breach the agreement for the period 2010 to 2014; what those sanctions are; if they have been levied, on whom, and in what amount and nature; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46837/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Staff (13 Jan 2016)

Shane Ross: 773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the employment control framework for higher education for the period 2010 to 2014 required only maintenance of ratios between lecturer and professorial staff for academic staff and those below that level, and for those above €70,000 salary for others, or if it also mandated, as some higher education institutions have interpreted,...

Courts Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (14 Dec 2015)

Shane Ross: I have not done so.

Courts Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (14 Dec 2015)

Shane Ross: I do not intend to do so.

Courts Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (14 Dec 2015)

Shane Ross: However, the evidence is utterly compelling and has appeared in print and elsewhere without being corrected or contradicted that when in power, Fianna Fáil nominated people to the Judiciary who were so identifiably Fianna Fáil that they brought the judicial system into disrepute. It had been hoped when Fine Gael and the Labour Party took power that they would reform the system and...

Courts Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (14 Dec 2015)

Shane Ross: I am always a little suspicious when a Bill of this sort is produced on a Monday morning at the end of a session. I wonder if it is intended that it will go through without the maximum scrutiny and discussion and that, of course, is exactly what will happen to the Bill. The briefing document states the Bill has a single purpose: to increase the maximum number of High Court judges from 35 to...

Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015)

Shane Ross: I doubt that the witness would. It strikes me as an unusual way to operate. It certainly would not be acceptable now. In the report from Deloitte, despite the fact that perhaps Deloitte was the wrong group to do it, was there any suggestion, with regard to the president's expenditure, that there was any expenditure incurred in the president's office that was for purposes other than those...

Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015)

Shane Ross: Is that on the back of the Deloitte report?

Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015)

Shane Ross: Is there a suggestion that any of the expenditure incurred in the president's office was for purposes that were not for the institute?