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European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: I have listened to a large number of these debates since I came into the Dáil and there is a similarity about them that is depressing. The conclusion one comes to every time one reads a speech from a Minister or the Taoiseach is that Ireland is a passenger on the European train and that we do not really count. I wonder sometimes what happens when the Irish delegation arrives. Perhaps...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Remit (7 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: 197. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will amend the 2013 Irish Water Act to allow Irish Water or the local authority to accept responsibility for all sewage mains and infrastructure, that is manholes and interchanges, including those running through non-public property, where these networks were historically maintained by the local authority; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (7 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to deal with the current backlog in available appointments for the national car test; the current average waiting time for an appointment; his plans to increase the number of test centres, or to follow the United Kingdom model and authorise local garages to undertake the testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and Deputy Clare Daly-----

Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: That is okay. I would like to reiterate much of what my colleagues have being saying about this Bill. It is headline-grabbing legislation which is meant to send out a message to people who have been victims of burglary that the Government is somehow tough on crime and is going to lock up the burglars. I do not believe this will happen. This is not the way to tackle burglaries. It is the...

Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: It would certainly reassure many people who are scared in their beds because they cannot get gardaí to come on time or prevent crime. I have had my own experience, as the Minister knows because I have brought this up many times in this House with her. In Stepaside, the Garda station was closed and there has been an epidemic of burglaries since. The Minister will say that I cannot...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: I agree with most of what Deputy McDonald said. It is shocking and extraordinary that the documents should be issued when it is almost impossible to digest them, and they are deliberately and nakedly politically divisive and provide a distraction to what is happening today. I can only conclude that it is deliberate on a day when we are doing important work and when we have invited the MLAs...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: Chairman, I apologise but I was outside when Mr. Hearne came in and cautioned the committee. I ask the Chairman to tell us the basis of that caution.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: I do not think this committee needs a civil servant to come in here to tell us that. We knew that and I do not think this committee needs a civil servant sitting in the Gallery, watching what we are doing either. I do not understand why he is there or what he is doing there. If ever there was a waste of public money, it is having a civil servant sitting in the Gallery here, watching what...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: Correct, and I have no personal problem with any member of the Civil Service but I do not see any reason that somebody should send in a civil servant to sit in the Gallery and see that we are doing what he or she wants us to do.

Public Accounts Committee: Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee: Discussion on NAMA Project Eagle Sale (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: I wish to ask Mr. McKay one question. Mr. Bryson appeared before the Northern Ireland finance committee recently. On what basis was he called as a witness?

Public Accounts Committee: Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee: Discussion on NAMA Project Eagle Sale (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: That is fine but why did Mr. McKay's committee ask Mr. Bryson to appear before it and what criteria did the committee use in its invitation? Did he volunteer and did the committee say that it is was a good idea? Did it look for him?

Public Accounts Committee: Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee: Discussion on NAMA Project Eagle Sale (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: I have one other question, if I may. Mr. McKay referred to redactions in the minutes provided by NAMA. Did the committee ask NAMA why anything was redacted? Does Mr. McKay know why there were redactions?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: Mr. Daly can meet them for lunch now.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: I preface my remarks by saying that nobody is suggesting NAMA is guilty of wrongdoing or crossing lines it was not expected to, or should not cross, or of any criminal act or anything like that. Nobody is suggesting it has been involved, or complicit, in anything like that. It is important for people to realise that. What is significant about what Mr. Daly has been saying here today,...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: Mr. Daly has not answered my question as to why NAMA will provide written replies but will not appear before the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: The NAMA representatives are not defendants. They would be going there to help the committee, as witnesses to say what they saw, what happened to them and what they can offer. That is all.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: This is a small bit of progress. However, I suggest NAMA appear before the committee. There is a world of difference between giving written replies and appearing before a committee and giving live evidence. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why NAMA will not do it. I do not think NAMA is involved in any of the activities in Northern Ireland about which we have read so much. The...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: It is not a great recommendation. Some of the others are being-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: Maybe deservedly so. Maybe Mr. Daly could take account of the fact that there are members of the committee here who would like NAMA to help the Northern Ireland committee further. My second question is a follow up to an issue Deputies McDonald and Costello raised. Why did PIMCO withdraw?