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Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: I thank the Acting Chairman. The debate so far has moved along utterly predictable lines. It is somewhat surprising to see so much Dáil time given to a debate on the economy given that we discuss it in more detail and in a more specialised way every week. The reason for it is quite simple, namely, that we are now in an election situation and this is the type of framework in which the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (30 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to provide tax refunds for necessary health expenses to those paying tax on their private pensions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17134/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (30 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will review its post-primary transport policy in respect of a student (details supplied) in County Leitrim, to facilitate that student in remaining in her current secondary school; if the scheme takes account of the length and safety of a journey from the family home to the bus collection point; if the policy considers the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (28 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: 120. To ask the Minister for Finance the way he plans to exercise his proxy votes, or the way he exercised them if already cast, as a shareholder on behalf of the Irish people in both Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks resolutions, to be decided at their annual general meetings; and if he will provide the way he has cast the votes in each resolution individually. [16622/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: Is there any reason that the correspondence on recoupment of spousal travel in FÁS is so anonymous? Is it acceptable? In his reply, Mr. O'Toole said he received something from one of them and something else from another. Why do we not ask who has paid what?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: Can we reply and ask who has paid what?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: Is the Comptroller and Auditor General saying the Taoiseach was wrong to give him a job to do which is not in his remit?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: So the Taoiseach is incorrect.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: So the Taoiseach is incorrect.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: Correct.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Measures (23 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: 126. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to address the situation faced by foster parents of adult children whom they wish to adopt, but who are prohibited from doing so by the lack of legislation; his plans to introduce the necessary legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16078/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Primary Online Database (23 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the antiquated categorisation of children in the ethnic or cultural background group within the primary online database form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16080/15]

Self-Employed and the SME Sector: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: I have been in this House for a very short period of time. When I get up to speak, I wonder why we so often have had a debate of this kind and why small businesses are so often the subject of discontent on the part of the Opposition and provide such fertile ground for political opponents of the Government. The reason is because not much has been done for them and they are still suffering...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: I am interested in Mr. Duffy's relationship with the shareholder, how often he communicates with him, what issues he addresses to Mr. Duffy and whether he communicates with the chairman and not with Mr. Duffy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: So he is not a passive shareholder but an active one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: If, as Deputy Peadar Ó Tóibín said, the Minister issued a direction, would Mr. Duffy do as he was told?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: Has the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, communicated about standard variable rates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: The Minister has not approached Mr. Duffy at any stage.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Sector Pensions (21 Apr 2015)

Shane Ross: 323. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 225 of 27 of January 2015, his plans to change the pension scheme for current Ministers and other office holders in the Houses of the Oireachtas, in any shape or form, which would have the effect of alleviating the reductions imposed by current legislation on their pensions when leaving office;...