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Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: Does Mr. Shanahan know if the positions were advertised? Did those who were appointed appear before any Oireachtas committees prior to taking up their positions?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: Is it normal for prospective members to go before Oireachtas committees?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: This matter relates to corporate governance and it is very important to know how things are done. It may not be a matter for Mr. Shanahan but I want to establish of what he is aware. He is a member of the board.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: Mr. Shanahan is a member of the board. The board should be aware of the exact nature of the procedure used to appoint the chairman. It would be crazy if the board was not aware of the position in that regard. It certainly should be aware of it. If the position is advertised, then the board should be aware of that fact as well. It is absurd to state that it is just a matter for the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: I could also table a parliamentary question. It is very important that we know how corporate governance operates at the top of IDA Ireland and other semi-State bodies. This matter comes within both our remit and our brief. We should also be in a position to know how the chairperson of a State body is appointed. That is absolutely vital. Was it not the case that the position Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: Will Mr. Shanahan outline what happened? How many candidates applied for the position?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: I accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: There is nothing personal about this. I put questions of this nature to everybody who comes before us. It is just that it is extremely important to know how these things are done.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: Yes, but it is also important for us to know how the board regards the appointment process and how much its members know about that process. It would be very wrong if these appointments were made without the board having any knowledge with regard to what happens. In fact, it would be absolutely absurd. The annual report states that, in the context of transactions, directors must make...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: I cannot see any reason that the full details should not be provided. It would be somewhat alarming if Mr. Shanahan was not prepared to provide such details. Enterprise Ireland has always produced full details when requested to do so. Perhaps Mr. Shanahan will-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: I thank Mr. Shanahan.

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: I congratulate Deputy Catherine Murphy on bringing forward this motion in a timely fashion. It is causing deep embarrassment to the Government and I congratulate her on that too. Debt is probably the debate of the decade. This is the big problem which will haunt us for years to come but has already haunted us for four or five years. The Government’s reluctance to debate or talk...

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: We have common interests. What is so patently obvious from the result of the Greek election is that it is a terrible embarrassment for the Irish Government that someone should be elected as head or Prime Minister of a friendly nation who is carrying a torch for the Irish people which the Irish Government will not carry. We are now in an absurd situation where we are backing away from a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (3 Feb 2015)

Shane Ross: 471. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 15 October 2014, his views on the allowable deductions under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Allowable Deductions) Regulations 2014, with particular reference to the €31 per week deduction for a couple with a child; his further views on whether that adequately reflects the cost of maintaining a child,...

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: Like every speaker, I share the desire for the banking inquiry to go wherever it feels the need to go and the appetite for frank answers to an unlimited number of questions. Just as we have been told it does, this Bill addresses the problem encountered by the banking inquiry when it has hit a brick wall while seeking certain information. I think the Bill should be supported in that sense....

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: The important thing is that is the exact information that should be shared with the public.

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: The public is entitled to know what the bankers, developers and other big players were up to in that period. It is material. If the information being sought from the Central Bank in particular is not revealed, it will look like those people are being protected under the 1942 Act for some reason. An additional question arises in this context. Is it really correct that politicians should be...

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: Everybody knows that anything that comes to a certain number of politicians will leak. It will get out regardless of whether penalties apply.

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: The imposition of fines, penalties or absences from the House for that is irrelevant and absurd. The information that we are trying or pretending to try to keep confidential is undoubtedly going to leak out to the press sooner or later. I will give a recent example. We were all told that a highly sensitive document that had come to the Committee of Public Accounts, of which the Minister of...

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: So do we.