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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Shane Ross: The Commissioner is in a spat, whether he likes it or not. It is all very well for him to say the Garda was co-operating and there is no row. The ombudsman commission stated that there was an absence of training in this area and a culture of non-adherence to the guidelines and that the release of papers was highly unsatisfactory. The commission blames Mr. Callinan for the delay. He has...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Shane Ross: We are discussing a serious drug trafficking case where someone was caught with almost €2 million worth of heroin and cocaine and then it was decided not to prosecute him for some reason. Is that what happened?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Shane Ross: The Commissioner is very welcome and I thank him for coming in. I find the answers he has given to the two main points Deputy Deasy raised - the two areas currently in the news - somewhat difficult to accept. Maybe he could explain it to me. Of the two inquiries we are discussing, one was held into the points system and the quashing of points, while the other was held by the Ombudsman into...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2013)

Shane Ross: I seek to have the Central Bank come before the committee. I have discussed the matter with the clerk. It is proposed to invite the Central Bank to come before the committee to talk about supervision, as it is under that particular category that we can ask it to come. Could we send a letter to the Central Bank to that effect?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2013)

Shane Ross: Could we do it fairly soon before Mr. Elderfield departs to more prosperous pastures?

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2013)

Shane Ross: I agree with much of Deputy Durkan's analysis of what is wrong, his criticisms of the lending institutions, his reservations about the Personal Insolvency Bill that was passed in this House and the difficulties we face in the future in respect of this problem. To say it has not yet been adequately addressed is possibly an understatement. The main problem is that the Government and the banks...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2013)

Shane Ross: We are again back in that situation and must accept that this Bill is the final piece in the jigsaw which gives the banks those particular powers. It is traumatic and final but it could have been done and approached in a very different way. The immediate problem is that some mortgagors, as they are so delicately called but meaning bankers, had in the Dunne case no right to repossess houses...

Europe Week: Statements (8 May 2013)

Shane Ross: Is the Minister of State advocating waste?

Europe Week: Statements (8 May 2013)

Shane Ross: Is the Minister of State in favour of waste?

Europe Week: Statements (8 May 2013)

Shane Ross: In the past four months Ireland has had a great opportunity to put Irish interests first in Europe. I am not a great subscriber to the polite protocol that when we assume the Presidency, we should always sacrifice our own interests in favour of the greater European interests. We are in a situation where we need to use this opportunity and there was nothing in the contributions from the...

Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: I will conclude. I have been providing an example of how serious regulation is needed in order to give confidence to entrepreneurs and to people overseas. A similar situation existed in the accountancy profession because the overseeing body was a farce. I will not refer to the high profile individuals who were members of that body but there was clear evidence produced by IASA itself since...

Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: I welcome the Bill in principle because I believe it is a constructive effort not only to consolidate vast volumes of former Companies Acts but also to encourage new investment and to make Ireland a more attractive place for both indigenous industry and overseas industry. I am not quite sure I share the sentiments that were expressed in the press release, which is full of superlatives about...

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: I am sharing time with Deputies Clare Daly, Mick Wallace, Joan Collins and Stephen Donnelly.

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: That is two minutes each. I would like to put this particular agreement in the context of what I witnessed today, which was a meeting of the Bank of Ireland AGM where a great deal of public money is going into people's salaries. Unfortunately, the Minister for Finance, on behalf of the Government, voted not just to keep salaries very high but to increase at least one salary. The new...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 336 of 16 April 2013, the way he has cast his vote for each of the resolutions individually due for decision at the Bank of Ireland AGM on 24 April 2013; if he has not yet cast his vote, the way he intends to cast it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18747/13]

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: I welcome this Bill as something which is more than necessary. The calm and measured way in which it is being introduced and welcomed in this House suggests it is almost a rubber-stamping procedure, it would automatically go through and there is not really anything important behind it. That disguises to some extent the alarm bells that had been ringing on money-laundering, not only in the...

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

Shane Ross: I wish to raise one further matter under any other business. I am aware that the committee is restricted in terms of calling in representatives of the Central Bank. May we ask representatives of the Central Bank to come before us to discuss the specific issue of the value for money the bank provides to the taxpayer?

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

Shane Ross: Would it have to be a report done by the Comptroller and Auditor General?

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

Shane Ross: Why?