Results 14,101-14,120 of 19,173 for speaker:Shane Ross

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

Shane Ross: Yes, absolutely.

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

Shane Ross: I tend to agree with Deputy Eoghan Murphy. The relevant paragraph is No. 4 on page 2 where it states the Committee on Procedure and Privileges wishes to know the proceedings and under which Standing Order we intend to pursue the issue, having regard to the fact that Rehab is not audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. This appears to be camouflage. What is intended is giving us a...

Reform of Judicial Appointments Procedures Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: If a politician is to state this is not the way it works, at a time when the judges themselves are blushing at the process, it simply beggars belief.

Reform of Judicial Appointments Procedures Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I very much welcome the Bill. I am disappointed with the Government's response because it is quite obviously a very constructive effort to reform a system which is generally acknowledged to be in dire need of reform. My only criticism of the Bill is that it is not radical enough. It is a very good effort to highlight the real problems we have in the judicial system, particularly in the...

Reform of Judicial Appointments Procedures Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I do not know where the Minister of State has been because I have heard barristers say very little else and they say it in here also. They know perfectly well how the world works. There is no point in pretending innocently this is not how things happen. It is how things happen.

Reform of Judicial Appointments Procedures Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: I am not particularly fussy about how it happens but the principles are very important. I would like to see the initial selection process being made by outsiders but allowing, as Deputies Broughan and Mac Lochlainn stated, people with legal expertise to be involved. It would be appropriate, of course, that wider society gets involved. I do not know whether the groups identified by previous...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (4 Jun 2014)

Shane Ross: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps taken to recruit companies in new sectors to implement apprenticeship programmes, aside from JobBridge, bearing in mind that the review of apprenticeship training in Ireland, published on 21 January 2014, presented evidence showing countries with high quality apprenticeship programmes have great success in promoting...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)

Shane Ross: I congratulate Deputy Ruth Coppinger on her maiden speech and I wish her many long years in this House. I regret the fact that she is supplanting her constituency colleague, but maybe we will find another constituency for him. In light of what he said in his elegant speech in Irish, it would be a great pity if we were to lose him to a colleague for political and constituency reasons. I...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)

Shane Ross: I am sorry but I missed the last sentence.

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2014)

Shane Ross: As Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett will not be here, perhaps we might redistribute his time among the rest of us. I am astonished at the attitude towards the Bill, particularly that of the Government. I know that it is accepting the Bill, but its grudging acceptance is something I do not welcome. I understand it is a very difficult issue for it, having instinctively and blindly backed up An...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2014)

Shane Ross: That is some months away and legal advice should not take that long. I do not detect a-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2014)

Shane Ross: It would be extraordinary. I do not detect any sense of urgency about anything that happens at the CPP. We should watch it carefully.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2014)

Shane Ross: Can we do that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2014)

Shane Ross: Priority for the CPP could mean September. Perhaps we could get it onto that committee's May agenda.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2014)

Shane Ross: Did we receive an acknowledgement that the applications had been received.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2014)

Shane Ross: Do we know how long it will take to deal with the applications?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2014)

Shane Ross: I am concerned that it will take the same length of time as the previous case.

Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

Shane Ross: I see every reason why the Irish people should find out what happened to the banks, and what is happening to the banks currently, and that the veil of secrecy which surrounds those events which have been outlined to us by the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade should be lifted. Indeed, it is essential that those who wish to know about it should find out about it and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Legislation (13 May 2014)

Shane Ross: When we hear the word "review", it makes my hair and the Minister's, or whatever we have left between us, stand on end because it means delay. I accept the Minister's statement that new issues have arisen around the age of the adoptive parents and issues like that, but this one is wrong. I was delighted to hear the Minister say it is unjust. There is an injustice here. If there is an...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Legislation (13 May 2014)

Shane Ross: Of course, it can.