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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: Is there any doubt about them coming in or are they just worried about the date?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: What is the problem then?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I would hate to think there is some type of backsliding going on and the indication is that there may be.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I would hate to think it was true, that is what I am saying. The old board still has many questions to answer. The report mentioned missing files and other issues which are outstanding about which, undoubtedly, we ought to ask. There are also issues which the administrator did not address. As the Chairman knows, the administrator did not interview the old board at all. He decided this...

State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I wish to focus my comments and add to what Deputy Clare Daly has been saying. I am particularly shocked by the position in which the deferred members find themselves. I do not understand how what currently exists could have been allowed to develop under any fair system of judgment or decision-making process. I can only conclude that the deferred members have been treated as they have...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I have little quarrel with what was included in the Taoiseach's speech. One could not really quarrel with it because there was not very much in it. My problem is with what was not in the speech. The most important point discussed by the Taoiseach was the nomination of Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker. He told us very little about this and what he said was very disappointing. I agree with Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I agree with plan A. It is a very good suggestion from Deputies Deasy and Dowds that the Chairman should talk the Ceann Comhairle. However, I would point out that the Committee on Procedure and Privileges has got itself a senior counsel. We should also have a senior counsel if we are to get into any sort of court conflict with it. There are problems. The parliamentary legal adviser was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: That is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: Am I correct that what we are speaking about is the letter from Ms Mellissa English to the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: What has to be decided is our response to that letter. Do we accept what Ms English says in her letter?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I am not sure we should necessarily accept that. We will need to respond to the Parliamentary Legal Adviser in regard to whether we accept what she says in her letter to the committee in regard to her not being conflicted about Chinese walls. We need to take a view on that. We need to take a view on that.

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: Its members have been away for an hour and a half and they did not bother to come in. Their concern for the future of the Judiciary is not very touching.

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: Deputy Niall Collins stated several things which were so irresponsible and wrong that they should be corrected.

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: Let me correct this one. He stated the Bill would create a new quango. It would not create anything. No new body would be created. This is a costless exercise. It simply uses the resources of the State as they exist. I suggest to Deputy Collins that if he wants to come here and speak on a Bill in future, and if I had time I could list other statements he made, he had better read the...

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I thank all Members who contributed to Second Stage of this Bill, particularly my colleagues on these benches. I thank the Sinn Féin Members for their support in principle for this Bill. They wish that it would proceed to Committee Stage and, like every other Member, that there would be an independent Garda authority with teeth and credibility which would guide the future of the Garda...

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I would like to share time with Deputies Finian McGrath, Mick Wallace, Clare Daly and Mattie McGrath.

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I am delighted to move this Bill in front of the new Minister for Justice and Equality. I hope the response we get from the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, gives us a message of hope, reform and change and includes a major dismissal of the events of the past. We need a new departure in the Department of Justice and Equality, in the appointment of judges and in the appointment of the Garda...

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: First Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: First Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I move:Bill entitled an Act to provide for the independent appointment of Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner and senior members of the Garda Síochána, to make the removal of such members more transparent and accountable, to amend the Public Service (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 and 2013 and the Garda Síochána Act 2005 and to provide for related matters.I am...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I agree with everything the Chairman said. It is a sensible way forward. My problem is with the operations of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges. I asked to go to the meeting to observe what was going on but I was told I could not. Why are the Committee on Procedure and Privileges meetings held in such secrecy? Why can we not have access to what is going on and why does the public...