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Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: It is €3,000 per meeting if the figure for board members' travel and subsistence comes to €47,700.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: I am sure that is correct. I have a couple of questions about the C & C contract that I forgot to ask. Was it advertised?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: Were they all approached?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: I thank Mr. Walsh. There was nothing personal in what I said to Mr. Meaney, but his appointment is one of many throughout the system that, unfortunately, land people whose loyalty is to the party in power - not just Fine Gael and the Labour Party - in key positions. Taking key positions in State bodies such as his is regarded by many, in particular by me, as being a reward for showing...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: No. I am saying the fact that Mr. Meaney had done so much for the party in power was obviously material in his appointment, given the circumstances surrounding it.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: Correct.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: Deputy Martin asked about the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill and the Taoiseach said it would not be debated before close of business. Does that mean close of business tonight or close of business before the election? There is another Seanad electoral reform Bill before the House, which is identical to the one proposed by Senator Quinn and passed in the Seanad. Will...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (24 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: 288. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 356 of 20 October 2015 and 135 of 5 November 2015 and given his statement that St. Bricin's military hospital will continue to offer medical services to members of the Defence Forces for the foreseeable future, if he will encourage the military authorities to investigate and identify medical services in the hospital...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Professionals (19 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: 175. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce regulations to protect the professional names of physical therapy and physiotherapy for medically qualified physiotherapists, thus bringing Ireland into line with the international professional body for physiotherapists and the world confederation for physical therapy; why this has not been done to date; his views that the failure to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (18 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the progress he has made in his efforts to force Bank of Ireland to reduce its variable rate mortgages; to state the banks that have reduced variable rates; if Bank of Ireland, in particular, has refused to reduce its variable rates; if, as a shareholder in the Bank of Ireland, he will be able to persuade it to bring back its variable rates to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (18 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: The item referred to by Deputy Michael McGrath is not the only example of the Bank of Ireland going walkabout. I realise that the Minister has a 14% share in the bank, as he said, but I wonder what has happened about variable rate mortgages. I think it was as long ago as the spring when we first heard that the Minister was meeting the heads of the banks about the absolutely exorbitant...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (18 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: It seems that the Minister's reply means that Bank of Ireland has done nothing whatsoever, or very little, about its standard variable rate. Although the Minister has been able to influence the State-owned banks, I suggest his relationship with Bank of Ireland is that of a junior partner. It is all very well for him to clothe it in a certain type of language by saying he has no day-to-day...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (18 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: Standard variable rates and fixed rates are very different creatures with different characteristics. Some borrowers who take out mortgages need variable rates, while some need fixed rates. It is not as if they can just switch from one comparable mortgage to another. In many cases, they do not switch because the fixed rates are not suited to their particular positions. I take it from what...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (18 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister. He has opened the door a bit further, for which I am grateful. The evidence is clear that the multinationals are the main contributors to the extraordinary spike in corporate tax. The Minister should be worried about the effect of the contribution of multinationals which is making such a significant and material difference to the returns to the Exchequer. I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (18 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the spike in corporation tax receipts and the over-performance of €800 million from this source of revenue; if the increase comes from the multinational sector; if he will provide a breakdown of the increase into one-off factors, early payments and delayed rebates and repayments; the timing factors that were involved; the proportion of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (18 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: I want to raise the issue of the surge in corporate tax returns at the end of October. The Minister will be aware that the income tax and VAT returns were a little below expectations but the corporate tax returns were far above. Can we have an explanation from the Minister for the over-performance of corporate tax? Can the Minister tell us whether this comes from the multinational sector...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (18 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister for his reply. I am a little puzzled by some of the balance. I gather €550 million was explained. A large amount of this was described as the result of better trading conditions. Does that include a single payment from a multinational that has adjusted it profits somewhat dramatically in recent times? What I am getting at is the fact that if multinationals are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Question No. 229 of 4 November 2015, her views that, 194 post primary level autistic spectrum disorder-specific special classes in total for the entire country indicates a chronic lack of places for autism students in mainstream secondary schools; her further views that her Department's policy allowing schools to...

Paris Terrorist Attack: Statements (17 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: I endorse the sympathy expressed by everybody in the House to the French people following the atrocity inflicted on them last Friday and express my sympathy to the ambassador and those present in the Visitors Gallery. I ask them to take home with them the sympathy of everybody in Ireland. Many of us in this House are Francophiles and visit France every year, perhaps many times a year. To...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Reductions (17 Nov 2015)

Shane Ross: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the current rate of 13.5% value added tax charged on the carbon tax, which is effectively tantamount to a tax on a tax: his views that this is fair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40705/15]