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Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (21 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: Question 731: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider having English language training promoted by Enterprise Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14811/12]

Written Answers — Bank Stress Tests: Bank Stress Tests (15 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm, further to Question No. 123, that the EBA peer review team was aware of and approved all amendments to methodologies and changes to formulas applied by the Irish banks or the Central Bank of Ireland to the stress tests in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14809/12]

Written Answers — Tourism Industry: Tourism Industry (15 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount being spent by Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland on the promotion of the English language training sector and of the golfing sector, respectively, each year for the past three years and the revenue generated by these sectors each year. [14810/12]

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: I would like to respond to some of the comments made by the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, last night. The Government seems to rely on its amendment in defence, on the credit being given to small businesses and on the Credit Review Office. I do not know whether anybody in the House knows anything about the Credit Review Office but we should put it under scrutiny before we accept...

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: On a point of order, may I move the suspension of the Dáil until we get a Minister in the House?

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: Why not? There is nobody from the Government and no Labour Party Deputies. There is no representative of the Government - neither a Minister nor a Member. Can we not suspend until they turn up? We have been sitting here now for ten minutes.

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: No debate is going on. How can we have a debate without a Minister?

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: Is it in order?

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: How can we enforce having a Minister or a Government Member come to the House?

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: We are going.

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: Can we wait for a Minister?

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: Is it in order for a debate to go ahead without a Minister?

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: Can we wait for a Minister, please?

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: I see this problem with the Anglo promissory notes as symptomatic of something even more fundamental. Yesterday, when the EU Commissioner, Olli Rehn, was asked about the promissory notes, he embarked upon a kind of lecture to us and the rest of Europe about our obligations. First of all, the Taoiseach should tell the Commissioner that we are not given to taking lectures from him. He said...

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: That is because Greece was the first exception to the rule he made yesterday. The Spanish were the second exception to the rule as Spain was given leeway on its budget deficit.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: The danger I see is that when we are entering the fiscal treaty, we are entering into a kind of À la carte Europe in which the big countries and the maligners will be allowed to pick and choose where they will breach the treaty and where they can make exceptions while Ireland and Hungary will be at the poor man's table - the table d'hôte. We are going to do what we are told by Olli Rehn....

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: I do not think the Taoiseach should take this from Olli Rehn.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: Is the Commissioner privy to these negotiations? Does he know what is going on or is he just giving a general overall lecture to the Taoiseach and other members of the European Union on our long-term obligations?

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Shane Ross: The Taoiseach has been very successful in doing that this morning. I congratulate him on practising what he preaches.