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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: CIE Group Financial Situation: Discussion with Group Management (18 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: In that case, Mr. Franks does not know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: CIE Group Financial Situation: Discussion with Group Management (18 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: Mr. Franks can find out what it is. The contract has been given to a company that has been fined £2.25 million by the SFO. There was no competitor, as the other company withdrew, and the supplier was also fined £10 million for its responsibility in a crash. This is worrying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: CIE Group Financial Situation: Discussion with Group Management (18 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: I suggest that Iarnród Éireann at least have a competition and consider another company. It has only considered one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: CIE Group Financial Situation: Discussion with Group Management (18 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank Ms Jupp.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: Is the IDA still coming in on 19 September?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: I endorse all of what has been said.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: In each case Mr. Robert Watt states the recommendation is acceptable or not acceptable. He makes a comment on it. Is it normal for a civil servant to tell the committee what is acceptable to him? On whose behalf is he responding?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: Why is the letter not signed by the Minister?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: Why is the Minister not saying it is-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: I was slightly concerned when reading through it that it was not a letter from and was not endorsed by the Minister. Mr. Watt states what is acceptable. I do not give a hoot what is acceptable to him. Obviously, it is important that it is acceptable to the Minister.

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: Everybody is on the side of the Garda Síochána and wants to see an efficient, honest and honourable force. Nobody is disputing that. The problem as outlined in this Bill is not what is happening in the middle or on the ground but at the top. The authors of this Bill are seeking to tackle the principles of political appointments and self-regulation. The Minister of State rightly...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: Thank you. I will not name anybody. I am being meticulously careful in all cases not to name anybody. What I saying is about trying to establish a principle for appointing judges. What I am saying is that those who have stood for election for particular parties seem to get preference when that political party is in power. This is an important principle and is one that will be discussed...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: I apply this not just to the main Government party, which gets so sensitive when it is mentioned in its case, but equally if not more so to the previous Government. The point is that the Government is at the same racket as the previous one and is appointing people who have shown political loyalty to it at a rate which would make Fianna Fáil blush.

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: This applies not just to candidates about whom the Minister is sensitive, but to Members of the other House - with whom I served many years ago - who happened to have run as running mates to other powerful people in this House. It should not be possible for anybody, however powerful, to try and silence discussion of a principle of that sort in this House. I am sorry if it is embarrassing,...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: In principle, I welcome the Bill. The idea of reforming the courts in this way is welcome. I wish to make a general point about courts of this sort regarding the judges themselves. I do not know how judges for these cases are chosen but I gather that it is left to the president of each court to decide how they are allocated and to which cases they are assigned. It is obviously very...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: It would be far better if judges were appointed in a transparent manner, after interviews, with qualifications and brought before Oireachtas committees in order that Members of both Houses and all parties could examine them in a demanding way and that they would have to be seen, not just by the Oireachtas but the public, to have the necessary qualifications to fill these particularly serious...

Mortgage Arrears Proposals: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh, for the very pedantic correction. You are absolutely correct and we are grateful to have someone as accurate and precise as yourself in the Chair this evening. It is an appropriate motion from Fianna Fáil at this time, when we are apparently seeing an extraordinary solution to the mortgage problem, supported by the Government. The solution appears to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (10 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide reassurance that special needs assistants who have been unemployed for longer than a year will be eligible to be placed on a panel for further recruitment either in their present school or elsewhere, as per the Haddington Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33588/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education Issues (9 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: 461. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there will be a recognition in her plans for reform of childcare and pre-school care facilities for staff members and creche owners whose childcare qualifications are prior to FETAC and whose montessori diploma have been granted a FETAC 5 equivalent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32908/13]

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: The Minister should attend a Technical Group meeting.