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Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: On board composition?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: I would contest that, if they do not fit the bill. The Secretary General sent out a template to all the bodies. Will he provide a copy to the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: Will he provide details of the replies from each body and his own conclusions?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: I thank the Secretary General.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (27 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: 225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if changes have been made since 2013 or are planned to be made to the pensions of Ministers, Ministers of State and Office Holders in the Houses of the Oireachtas and the pensions of Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas; if so, the changes or proposed changes and the potential cost to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been left waiting for in excess of three months for a space in the National Rehabilitation Hospital; if he will arrange to have this matter reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3497/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: 359. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of occupational therapists in Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, County Offaly resulting in a person (details provided) receiving only 20 minutes of occupational therapy a day despite suffering a serious spinal and brain injury three months ago; if he will arrange to have the matter reviewed; and if he will...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on yet another Garda Bill and to express a familiar story of disappointment that the Government has once again not just failed, but refused, to reform An Garda Síochána in any radical manner. I suppose it is no coincidence that I and other Independent Deputies, in particular Deputies Wallace and Daly, have been hammering away at this...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Semi-State Bodies (21 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: 231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total amount spent on the process of changing the name of Bord Gáis Éireann; the reason for the name change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2953/15]

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Shane Ross: This is an extraordinarily serious matter that has arisen over Christmas. It is strange that it was not properly foreseen and, if it was foreseen, that nothing was really done about it. The terrifying question, which was asked, I think, on "Morning Ireland" the other day, which has been asked ever since and to which we have not got a satisfactory answer, is whether the accident and...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (17 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: Some of us on these benches are becoming veterans of the kind of sanitised speeches which the Taoiseach brings in here and reads every time before he goes to one of these meetings in Europe. This is, unfortunately, no exception. Like many other Deputies, including Deputy Boyd Barrett, I expected the Taoiseach to come in here and say that top of the agenda - I am insisting on it going on the...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: The U-turn the Government did on the economy is not a matter of shame but a matter of pride. When the Taoiseach talks to us about the figures, which he did today, he ignores the fact, to which Deputy Halligan referred, that many of us go into our constituencies and see hard cases on a daily basis. Imagine them reading the Taoiseach's speech today telling them not to worry that the deficit...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: That did not happened at all because the Minister, Deputy Howlin, with his reforms, still comes back with the same old formula. Ministers, like himself, are still appointing their cronies to the boards of semi-State bodies. Maybe the Minister, Deputy Howlin, has never heard of John McNulty and perhaps that issue did not reach his ears. As Deputy Martin said, the response to that has been...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: The Government itself has acknowledged that this is the Bill of an Administration in fast retreat. There is no doubt that when it says so unconvincingly that it has listened to the people, it is really saying it never listened to them before, but that it will listen now as they are up in arms. It has provoked well over 100,000 people, perhaps 150,000, to come out onto the streets. Irish...

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: So one could have reached a point-----

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: One could have taken a prosecution for anybody who committed an offence up to 1997.

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: Correct. But Revenue had identified the offences in all these cases, otherwise they would not have settled.

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: In every single case.

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: Then why did all these people settle?

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Shane Ross: This does not look too innocent. Does it?