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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: We have to accept the difficulties we are creating for ourselves here. Obviously, the conflicting legal opinions create a serious difficulty. We have one solicitor and one senior counsel saying completely different things. I think the idea of getting another legal opinion is valuable. Sooner or later, we are going to have to decide which legal opinion we will take notice of. Nobody else...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: I did not hear that but it is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: I do not know. Is it worth hearing?

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: I join all the other speakers in expressing sympathy at the death of Ted Nealon to his wife, Jo, his son, Fergal, and to his daughter, Louise. I knew Ted Nealon and was here when he was a Minister and a Deputy. He brought to this House a full and very fulfilled life and, as other speakers have said, a great knowledge of the outside world, which was the basis and foundation of his expertise...

Banking Inquiry: Motion (25 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: I have no objection in principle to a banking inquiry to find out what happened during the critical period which this inquiry is examining as this could be very necessary and very useful in preventing it happening again. However, I have some serious reservations about this inquiry, its composition and its terms of reference. There are serious credibility difficulties attached to politicians...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: I am staggered by the tone, nature and exchanges in this debate. The unreality of what is going on here is something which I do not believe will be lost on people outside this House. I wonder why so may people marched in the first and second marches and why they will march again on 10 December. Has the Government for one moment confronted the reality that those who marched were not the...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: I am, and I am living in this bubble which the Government is creating.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: What is happening here is that we have a Minister, who has come to this House and who has only been in the House for a few weeks, talking about his legacy, which is a disaster of monumental proportions. Let us get on with talking about the people and not about him or his legacy.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: Let us live in the world of the people. Nowhere is it more evident than in what the Minister said.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: Let me quote from the Minister again. Let me further quote the Minister.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: The Minister said that the charging regime was not well understood by the public. That is the most condescending statement that I have heard in this House since I have come here. The public well understood these charges. The public resented the charges. They are in revolt not only against the charges but against the Government and its attitude.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: The important point is that we realise that this symbol has been recognised by the Government in a humiliating retreat. No such retreat has been witnessed under any other Government, even a Fianna Fáil Government, in the past 20 years. These measures are unrecognisable from the Bill that the Government introduced in this House and then guillotined. That is the second thing the people...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: They are revolting against the fact that the Government has a complete contempt for parliamentary democracy. The Government showed that by guillotining the Bill, which was one of the most important measures introduced in this House. Then, for the Minister to come back to the House and try to say that we need not worry because the people did not understand the changes and that his legacy...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: That would make a change because this Government has not appointed people of the highest calibre before. The people who started off - we have yet to see who the Government appoints - here were again the usual suspects on the board of Irish Water.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: Let us have a look at them without naming them. The chairman was listed as someone who has been on the board of virtually every semi-State quango going, but she was one of the usual suspects. It is so typical of the way this country is run. Her curriculum vitae in respect of her position on Bord Gáis and the parent company, Ervia, left out one interesting thing: she was on the board...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: Another person was appointed. I will not mention that name either.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: However, let me say this: someone was put on the board. I rang officials from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. I asked them about the person in question on the board of Irish Water. They said they do not know anything about him. That was their answer. Further inquiries about this person have drawn a blank. This is someone who is on the board of Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consumer Protection (18 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: 209. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to regulate the sale of gift vouchers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43739/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (18 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: 295. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the children and family relationships Bill; when it is expected to come before Dáil Éireann; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44106/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Nov 2014)

Shane Ross: Is this because there has been a mushrooming of quangos? Has the workload of Mr. McCarthy's office increased because of that? This situation is getting worse, is it not? It is not getting better, this build up of semi-State agencies-----