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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: We will deal with the matter of witnesses after that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: Has the letter been circulated to everyone?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: The letter addresses the issue of a possible misuse of public money. It certainly addresses the issue of a use of public money which has entered the public arena in recent times. The issue to which I refer is that which relates to a tender for what is termed a "digital recorder logging system" for use in taping telephone conversations in Garda stations. A large contract was awarded in 2007...

Seanad Reform Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: First, I welcome this Bill as an honest and genuine attempt to respond to the referendum that was held last year. I do not agree with everything it contains because everyone has his or her own particular model and solution for Seanad Éireann. However, it is far preferable than the present position and I certainly cannot understand the Government's response to it, which was to dismiss...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: I asked a second question about what the Taoiseach told the official to tell the Garda Commissioner.

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: It is very important.

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: He can deal with it then.

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: I have just two questions for the Minister. First, can he explain what happened to the letter and what discussions were there in his office in regard to this in the extraordinary five days between 10 March and the Minister's departure to Mexico? What was going on, what inquiries has he made and what action is he taking as a result? My second question was asked also by Deputy Higgins, but...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: Did anybody tell the Minister it existed?

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: It came to the rescue and it also served the Minister's, and, indeed, the Government's, purpose well in that it accelerated the resignation of the former Commissioner, Mr. Callinan. There is no doubt about that. However, the former Commissioner was not playing ball. Somebody leaked a letter last night which did not fit in with the Government's scenario. A letter came out into the public...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: -----that they would give him a good holiday in Mexico and tell him about it when he comes back?

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: I believe the Minister when he states he did not see the letter until yesterday, but was anybody informed of the contents before yesterday?

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: If the officials knew, the political masters must have known on a matter of that concern. If they were not told, there is something fairly rotten in the state of the Department of Justice and Equality, and that is where the problem lies. We do not know who the officials were; we were not told. I reiterate what Deputy Niall Collins stated; the Attorney General has been hung out to dry...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: Deputy Higgins is correct. I do not think there is a sinner outside this House who believes a word of the scenario being painted by the Government today. It defies credibility. Two days ago, there was a Cabinet crisis of a fairly hefty dimension and, suddenly, to the rescue comes this bombshell of news about the system containing tapes which nobody knew about before. That was no...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: The response is a smokescreen. It does not give us what we sought and it is deliberately obscure. It makes life harder for us and is typical of the characteristics of the replies we receive that we get nothing that we want, particularly in the case of the Towers Watson situation. This was the promised report on salaries. Instead we got a kind of PowerPoint summary. Yesterday we wrote...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: That is typically unsatisfactory. It is more of the smokescreen. As everybody on the committee knows, we got a very bland summary which gives us no idea of the basis on which people were being paid, what they were being paid and the pattern of pay. If we get the full report we should get full details of what happened. There is correspondence which specifically shows that Towers Watson...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (13 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: 217. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action that has been taken regarding the issue of step-parent adoption, as raised by this Deputy under Topical Issues on 10 October 2013; the reason the glaring anomalies have still not been addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12623/14]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: I wish to share time with Deputies Mick Wallace and Luke 'Ming' Flanagan.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Shane Ross: Yes.