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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion (20 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: I am talking about election to the board. Public interest directors do not stand for election.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion (20 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion (20 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: Mr. Walsh was appointed chairman of the remuneration committee, which means that he is in charge of Mr. Boucher's pay. Could he tell us how he works out that he is worth €620,000 a year plus all his perks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion (20 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: Would Mr. Walsh justify his getting that amount of money? Why does he get so much?

Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: I find this matter particularly puzzling because although so little money is involved it causes so much damage, hurt and pain to so many people who are doing so much good. The cut of this sword, which saves €26 million, could hardly be taken by human beings who consider the needs of their fellow human beings. There is a tendency in the cuts imposed that make some of us believe they...

Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister of State. I do not for one moment believe we should go out and complain about all the cuts. I believe the books should be balanced. Why, in the name of God, if the Government wants to save €26 million, can it not look elsewhere? Why can it not do something about the quangos about which this Government promised so much but has done so little? There is waste in...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: I know and I am explaining why the Title is wrong and I will elaborate on it. Section 1 is about whether it is a local property Bill and I am addressing the issue. The issue of whether people in Dublin and other urban areas or in areas where property is more valuable than an identical or similar property in a rural or another area is fair to debate and should be addressed. It seems very...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: I have listened to what the other Deputies have had to say. Deputy Joe Higgins may represent a very different electorate from me but when he says there will be resistance to this tax, he is right. The Government has, in an extraordinary way, misread the mood regarding this tax. The Government has almost unprecedentedly managed to unite middle Ireland, people who are quite prosperous, people...

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: The issue is very straightforward. I take the point of the Taoiseach, when decoded, about urging Europe to take a softer line and saying that Europe should meet its obligations to Ireland. I hope the Taoiseach agrees Europe is failing to meet its obligations to Ireland, which is what the IMF is implicitly saying. There is obviously a split between the IMF and the rest of the troika. The...

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: I note the comments the Taoiseach made to Deputy Adams on growth. My question is about the growth figures he quoted because yesterday the International Monetary Fund, IMF, had some telling things to say about the Irish economy, especially the growth figures that are emerging. Indeed, its forecast and that of the Department of Finance are very different. The IMF says growth will be 1.1%...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (18 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will bring forward any derogation for fee-charging protestant secondary schools from the two point increase in pupil teacher ratio, in view of the fact that the ultimate impact of this change will mean that increasing numbers of protestant families will not be able to send their children to the school of their ethos and choice; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (18 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider expanding the jobbridge scheme along the lines of the noted German Dual Vocational Training System; her plans for the scheme over the coming year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56591/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Collection (18 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of house holders who have not paid the 2012 household charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56590/12]

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: That is correct. I am getting very tired and very used to hearing the Government saying that this particular tax is justified on the basis that is broadening the tax base. It is doing nothing of the sort. What this tax is doing is draining those who are already empty of juice. It is hitting those in negative equity, those who have mortgage arrears, those who have already paid stamp duty,...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: It was selected for one reason and one reason only: because the tax cannot be collected any other way. There will be resistance to the payment of this tax on the very justifiable basis that people cannot pay it. The only way to get money out of people who cannot pay is by extortion. One extorts it quite simply by saying it is going to come out of people's pay, because they cannot pay it...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: I asked the Tánaiste two questions, neither of which he answered.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: Why is legislation going to be introduced in 2013 to give the banks a free run at homeowners? Why can the Government not take the view that this legislation is unnecessary-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: -----and that it would more sympathetic to homeowners if it were not introduced? Does the Tánaiste have sympathy with the view that the Revenue Commissioners have been chosen to collect the property tax because this is the only way the money involved can be extracted from people as a result of the fact that they simply cannot afford to pay? Imagine the scene that will obtain when many...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: -----to collect this money willy-nilly because the latter will ignore the needs of the people from whom it is going to be taken.