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

Shane Ross: Could we ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to do a specific value for money report on the Central Bank?

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

Shane Ross: What would Mr. McCarthy require for that purpose? Does he only need a direction from the committee? Could members ask the clerk to the committee to write a letter to the Comptroller and Auditor General asking for such a report to be done?

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

Shane Ross: I will raise the issues I believe to be important and revert to the committee next week.

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

Shane Ross: Could we not bring in representatives of the Central Bank on the basis of the Comptroller and General's audit report?

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

Shane Ross: What are the penalties for companies so consistently late?

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

Shane Ross: Are there no penalties?

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

Shane Ross: Semi-State bodies are sometimes the worst offenders.

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

Shane Ross: Is there no incentive for them to deliver on time?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Agencies Board Remuneration (16 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Taoiseach the total cost to the taxpayer of paying the aggregate fees, salaries and any other remuneration to directors of all State bodies, to include majority State owned banks, all public interest directors, all semi-State bodies, all State agencies and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16009/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers Grants (16 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the criteria for determining eligible cars under the disabled driver car purchase scheme is not based on CO2 emissions; his views on whether this is unfair to those persons who utilise the scheme and who wish to retain their particular model of car which is suitable to their particular disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16476/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (16 Apr 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 26 March 2013, if he has now had time to peruse the documentation and decided on the appropriate vote for each of the resolutions individually due for decision at the Bank of Ireland AGM on 24 April 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17368/13]

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: I tend to agree with Deputy Boyd Barrett in this regard. The opposition to the Government's supposed solution on mortgage arrears has been somewhat meek and mild. It is an appalling solution. Disguised in it is the discussion that comes out all the time about the Dunne judgment. The Dunne judgment saved the houses of many people who would otherwise have had their houses repossessed. Part...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Bodies Expenditure (27 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He will be aware that the accounts of CIE have been late virtually every year for the last three or four years. Can I have an assurance that they will not be late this year? The Minister of State has said the accounts are now in the hands of the Government. I hope they do not have to be referred back to the company as they were last year, when...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Bodies Expenditure (27 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: I accept the Minister of State's goodwill on this matter. We have been hearing about the company in the same terms for ten years. It has had robust business plan after robust business plan. CIE has been the black hole in the semi-State hemisphere for a very long time. We need something more dramatic than this, particularly given that the auditors expressed serious worries last year about...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Bodies Expenditure (27 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the financial situation at CIÉ; if he will now report on whether there is any improvement in the company's financial situation since the annual report; if he will provide details of the contacts he has had with the board and the chairman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15400/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (27 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total cost to the taxpayer of paying the aggregate fees, salaries and any other remuneration to directors of all State bodies, to include majority State owned banks, all public interest directors, all semi-State bodies, all State agencies and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15409/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (27 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost to the taxpayer of paying the aggregate fees, salaries and any other remuneration to directors of all State bodies, to include majority State owned banks, all public interest directors, all semi-State bodies, all State agencies and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15407/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (27 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total cost to the taxpayer of paying the aggregate fees, salaries and any other remuneration to directors of all State bodies, to include majority State owned banks, all public interest directors, all semi-State bodies, all State agencies and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15413/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (27 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total cost to the taxpayer of paying the aggregate fees, salaries and any other remuneration to directors of all State bodies, to include majority State owned banks, all public interest directors, all semi-State bodies, all State agencies and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15411/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (27 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total cost to the taxpayer of paying the aggregate fees, salaries and any other remuneration to directors of all State bodies, to include majority State owned banks, all public interest directors, all semi-State bodies, all State agencies and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15414/13]