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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Shane Ross: Who else is on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Shane Ross: Who are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Shane Ross: They make recommendations.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Shane Ross: I notice there are "related party" transactions in the annual report. What happens when they come before the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Shane Ross: In the annual report there is mention of "related party transactions". I believe these are grants going to bodies associated with board members.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Shane Ross: Okay, that is fine. There are some other issues. There has been quite a bit of spending on public relations.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Shane Ross: Mr. Treacy said at the beginning that the Irish Sports Council was directed by Government to give grants to various bodies. How was that conveyed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
Shane Ross: Before we move on to the work programme, may I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General about the IMMA accounts for 2013?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
Shane Ross: They are late.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
Shane Ross: Could Mr. McCarthy find out for us?
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2014)
Shane Ross: I could name candidates for the European Parliament, other well-known politicians, who have recently received-----
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2014)
Shane Ross: I will not describe anyone in a defamatory fashion.
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2014)
Shane Ross: That is perfectly reasonable and I am perfectly happy with that ruling. It is the case that people who happen to be running mates of people holding the highest office in the land have ended up in the Judiciary as have people who have been Members of the European Parliament. This is not acceptable if it is not done transparently and it is not being done transparently. The proposed measures...
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2014)
Shane Ross: This is one of the Bills that members of the Opposition are almost compelled to welcome because the principles behind it are unarguable. The problem is whether the Bill goes far enough. We welcome the Bill because of some of its provisions but it is minimalist in its approach. Lobbyists tend to be unpopular and we tend to think of big business, the gun lobby in America, the tobacco lobby...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Shane Ross: In answering Deputy Joe Higgins's questions the Government has failed to see the point. We cannot pass judgment on the actual criteria used yet because we have not seen them. However, the problem is fundamental and it is this what the Taoiseach should be tackling. It is the fact that since the foundation of the State, the Minister has had the ultimate responsibility and Ministers, from...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Shane Ross: I do not think I am allowed to name them and it would be utterly subversive and wrong if I were to do so. For a Minister to suggest it is very wrong.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Shane Ross: Will the Taoiseach, please, forget about the camouflage, the criteria and the bodies he put in the middle? Will he announce in this House that the problem has been ministerial appointments and that he intends, as a great reformer and part of a great reforming Government, to end the system whereby Ministers have the facility to appoint their friends and cronies to State bodies? Take it out...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Shane Ross: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Shane Ross: Wrong, they are political appointments.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Authority Remit (30 Sep 2014)
Shane Ross: 291. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to implement licensing for private investigators in view of the fact that the legislation currently refers to the area in very limited terms and effectively allows for anyone to advertise their services as a private investigator, potentially putting a client or a case at risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36889/14]