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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: Does Mr. Moran understand what I mean? I am looking for a complete and utter breakdown - let us park the anonymity issue for a moment - of what happens, how many people are working in each section and who is reporting to whom. I want to know how it works.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: I am not in favour of retaining anonymity but I understand why Mr. Moran wants to do it. However, I ask him to provide information on how many people in each area are doing what.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: Will Mr. Moran go right down?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: How far?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: Why will Mr. Moran not do the lot?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: Do not list them by name. Just give us a chart or a tree setting out exactly how many people are employed all the way down to the bottom of the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: I am interested in the Department's relationship with the banks for which he says he has responsibility. How does it reach a decision on voting at their AGMs?

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: The people of south-east Dublin and other parts of Dublin deeply resent this tax. Apart from negative equity and other factors, the main reason for their resentment is that they will have to pay more than what will be paid for similar types of house outside Dublin. That is not fair. The Minister's refusal to make concessions on that, which has been well represented by the Members behind...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: It was the longest in mine.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: I rise to speak on this Bill almost I feel for the second time. I am aware of the need for, and the reasons why, the Minister has introduced this Bill, in order to relieve worthy causes of the property tax. While everybody in the House supports what he is doing for the disabled, for charities and others, and for homes damaged by pyrite, the main clauses of the Bill still stand indicted by...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Mar 2013)

Shane Ross: It is one which the tax has provoked. The problem is that many Members on the Minister's side recognise that this is a fundamentally flawed tax in itself but it is utterly wrong at this time, as Deputy Olivia Mitchell said today, and I hate to use her as a thorn in the Minister's side, although she is fundamentally in favour of the tax. It is very difficult to get money out of an asset...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Fluoridation (27 Feb 2013)

Shane Ross: The Minister of State is correct that I am not a scientist and I had as much difficulty with some of the technical phrases as he did. I accept fully that there are differing scientific views. What I am impressed with is the fact that this is the only country in Europe that considers it is necessary to do this to our water supply. Other countries in Europe, including Finland, have decided...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Fluoridation (27 Feb 2013)

Shane Ross: The Minister will be aware of the controversy that has surrounded the insertion of fluoride into our water supply, and it has been heating up recently. I draw his attention to an article in "Hot Press", a magazine I am sure he is familiar with, which discusses the fluoridation of our water. This serious issue was addressed in an interview with Declan Waugh, who is a well known scientist....

Topical Issue Debate: Water Fluoridation (27 Feb 2013)

Shane Ross: I am concluding. There is one Irish example which emphasises and illustrates the point. West Cork has the highest rate of cardiovascular disease in Ireland and Ireland has the highest rate in Europe. In west Cork there is very little calcium in the water. It has the lowest levels of calcium in Ireland, which means the water is soft, with the result that there is three times more fluoride...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Media Mergers (26 Feb 2013)

Shane Ross: I welcome the Minister's reply. I do not understand why the Minister for Justice and Equality is involved in this issue if it is not for his Department to be involved, but I take it that the proposals of the Minister for Justice and Equality for a privacy law are now a dead duck and that the Minister will investigate where they are lying around and ensure they are not allowed to do so for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Media Mergers (26 Feb 2013)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if it is intended that responsibility for the print media will pass to his Department in future legislation. [10325/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Media Mergers (26 Feb 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister for his reply and note that he has achieved in the coming legislation something that was never achieved by one of his predecessors, Michael D. Higgins, who is now President of Ireland and who eyed this particular pathway back in the 1990s with some enthusiasm but never got to it. Under his portfolio, the Minister now has an extremely important position in regulating the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance (21 Feb 2013)

Shane Ross: There is an advertisement and interview process for the appointments. Is it an internal competition?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance (21 Feb 2013)

Shane Ross: Why is that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance (21 Feb 2013)

Shane Ross: The end result seems to be the same. People are appointed and promoted internally.