Results 14,441-14,460 of 19,173 for speaker:Shane Ross
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: Will Mr. O'Brien also provide the information on Ms Kerins's salary over the past ten years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: I ask Mr. O'Brien to provide us with all available information about senior staff at Rehab.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: I thank Mr. O'Brien.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: Is Mr. O'Toole privy to the same information?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: Will the witness provide that information? I apologise if there is an overlap.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: When will the witness be able to revert?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: That is fine. Who is Ms Kerins's employer? Is it the Rehab Group?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: That is where the remuneration is charged to in the accounts. Does Ms Kerins understand that this is disappointing? We have asked representatives of Rehab here today because of what is obviously perceived as a massive lack of transparency. She is as aware as anybody else of the problems in the charity industry. I do not dispute the great work done by the group; nobody would do so as it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: I thank Ms Kerins and everyone else for attending. I was struck by something Ms Kerins mentioned to Deputy Harris. She indicated it is her hope to publish the salary structure in the next annual report.
- Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of quangos abolished under this Government; the number created; the gross savings made by the reductions; the gross cost to the Exchequer of the new quangos; the net effect of the changes in quangos on public expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9472/14]
- Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: I want to ask the Minister the number of quangos abolished under this Government, the number created, the gross savings made by the reductions, the gross cost to the Exchequer of the new quangos, the net effect of the changes in quangos on public expenditure, and if he will make a statement on the matter.
- Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: The Minister was just coming to the meat of the question when he had to stop. Is there any way I can let him in and then come back?
- Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: Can the Minister give me the figures I asked for in the first question?
- Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: I thank the Minister for his moderately incomplete reply. I am trying to get a handle on the net savings or the net cost to the Exchequer resulting from the reduction in quangos and the creation of quangos. I know the Minister probably cannot tell me exactly, because some of them are not operating, but it would be important to know whether any savings are being made at all. There was a...
- Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: I know he is very good at interrupting, but he should let me finish. I have very little time. A huge number of quangos were created under social partnership, some of which had to go, some of which have not gone and are still there.
- Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: If I could speak without interruption, I would be really grateful. I would like to go on to my second question, and then the Minister can ask me questions and we can reverse roles if he likes. The creation of quangos also creates a huge number of paid directors. That creates a power of political patronage, which all governments are inclined to use. During the last Global Irish Economic...
- Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: FÁS.
- Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: It is now SOLAS.
- Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: It is huge.
- Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)
Shane Ross: I would like to try to take the politics out of this and look at it in a very cold, clinical and forensic light. If one looks at it that way, the accumulation of evidence here is that there is an utter crisis in the justice system in this country. There is a complete lack of confidence among the people. It was indicative of what is happening that members of the Labour Party have so...