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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: What was the outcome of that request?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: To clarify, there was a query about expenditure which was referred to the management committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Is Dr. Neavyn referring to FÁS?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: In other words, the issue was passed over to the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Was that the only challenge to the president's expenditure of which Dr. Neavyn is aware?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Is it fair to say that we are talking about a chief executive officer with a huge budget who, over a long period, really was not in the habit of being challenged by anybody about his expenditure? Dr. Neavyn indicated that the first occasion on which his spending was challenged was in 2009?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: What was the outcome of those challenges?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: In other words, when the president was challenged his response was to say the judgment was his to make and that was the end of it.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: It is not a very satisfactory method of running a corporate operation.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Were any of these items of expenditure ever brought to the attention of the board?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: I am referring to any and all of them.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Is Dr. Neavyn saying that any other challenges or queries on expenditure which may have been raised before that time were not brought to the board? Is it the case, in other words, that nothing was ever brought to the board's attention in the entire period from 2001 to 2011?

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank Deputies Joan Collins and Wallace for sharing time with me. Deputy Boyd Barrett asked me when he sat down if he convinced the Government. It is indicative of the seriousness with which the Government takes this House and an issue of this sort that, for the past 45 minutes since I came into the Chamber, that, apart from Members on this side, there have only been two ushers, two...

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: No Member from Fine Gael or the Labour Party has come into the House.

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: I did not say I was here all the time. The Government has a majority of over 100. Maybe, some of its Members could be here taking this issue seriously.

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Obviously, they are not interested and were not here to support the Minister of State when she gave her speech. That is really insulting to the proposer of this Bill, Deputy Joan Collins.

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: My point is that the Government does not take the Dáil seriously on issues of this sort. It is a pity it does not because this Bill contains good ideas and constructive suggestions. They should at least be given the courtesy of being paid a certain amount of attention. It is a pity the Minister of State has been on her own for this period. I hope it will not continue.

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: The Bill puts forward a principle of negative equity of 110%, based on the Norwegian model. It is also constructive because it takes the bankers out of the pivotal position in which the Government has put them. That is what is radical and fundamental about this Bill. The Bill calls for more weight to be given to borrowers and a little less to bankers. Why does the Government consistently...

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Shane Ross: Last week, the Governor of the Central Bank told the finance committee that the idea of strategic defaulters is a phoney concept, a piece of banking propaganda with which the Government goes along. How is the Government going to deal with that? In her speech the Minister of State referred to a distinction between those willing to pay and those who cannot pay. Strategic defaulters are a...

Private Members' Business - Cuts in Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Sep 2013)

Shane Ross: I welcome this motion. As it is so long and detailed, it would be difficult not to find elements with which anyone agreed. The fundamental point in this Sinn Féin motion, that 6% of GDP should be allocated specifically to education, is welcome, as it is often the international practice. The commitment to decreasing the pupil-teacher ratio is one that all Deputies should support. No...