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Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, when you can keep the junior Member from Dublin South quiet, I will continue.

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Is the Minister aware of the fact that, contrary to what is being said by the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste, Dr. Michael Somers, who was the Government's nominee to the board of Anglo Irish Bank and the head of the NTMA for 20 years, said this week that the bond markets will not tolerate Irish bonds at the designated time in the Government's timetable and that we will need a second bailout?...

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: I am delighted to hear the Minister speaking in defence of bond speculators. It is a slightly reverse situation for her, but that is something to which we are becoming accustomed.

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: However, I cannot accept her statement that the NTMA is somehow an independent body. There is an advisory board for the NTMA. It might not do anything but there are political appointees on that board. They are appointed by the Minister.

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: The chairman is Mr. David Byrne, who gets €50,000 per year. Along with him there is Mr. Kevin Cardiff, who might have just resigned, and Mr. Hugh Cooney, a Fianna Fáil fund-raiser. The idea that the NTMA is independent is utter nonsense. Does the Minister or anyone else in the House agree with the Taoiseach when he says, quite wrongly, that the growth rate this year will be 1.3%? Are...

Appointments to State Boards (7 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: The most important and sensitive appointments which the Taoiseach and Government will have to make in this particular sphere are appointments to the boards of banks. As I understand it, in terms of the procedure which the Taoiseach described, public appointments to the boards of banks were advertised eight months ago, in respect of which the banks received approximately 500 applications. A...

Appointments to State Boards (7 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: No appointments have been made to the banks despite the advertising going on in the public arena and the many applications already refused.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: I wish the Taoiseach would use the threat of a referendum more often when he goes to Europe. It is a powerful threat and obviously has an effect. We should have used it at the time of the IMF-EU deal which would have secured us better terms.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: It is something the European leaders fear. The deal in Brussels on Monday was undoubtedly a lap of honour for Angela Merkel and Germany as the most powerful economic country in Europe.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: That must be acknowledged. Citigroup described the deal as a compact for low growth. That leaves a great deal of unfinished business for Ireland and particularly for this Government. There are two elements to my question. The first is the debt which the Taoiseach will say he will come to at the next summit. The second is unemployment, an issue which is not of great interest to Germany....

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: I know the Taoiseach spoke with passion and interest about unemployment and small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, after the meeting in which the compact was agreed. As a result of this compact for low growth, what prospect has Ireland got of lowering its unemployment rate? Has the Taoiseach delivered a single extra job from this summit? As a result of this compact, are there any...

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: I do not doubt for one moment the Taoiseach's or his Ministers' sincerity in wanting to create jobs. The reality is that it is difficult for an austerity package and a stimulus package to live together. It is unlikely there will be a stimulus package from Europe while this compact exists. He spoke about activation clauses and activation plans. Can he provide us with a forecast figure - as...

European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: I agree with nearly everything Deputy Wallace said. Are the 24 other parliaments sitting today, with their Prime Ministers telling them it is a great victory and relating how they told European leaders the way forward at the Brussels summit on Monday? This is an agreement dictated by one nation to the rest of us. This is a German prescription for Europe. The Taoiseach's speech referred to...

European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: They have no interest in unemployment or at least much less than this nation. Unemployment is not on their horizons.

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Question 119: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there will be any concession on the household charge made for those paying management fees on residential properties; his plans to hold management companies accountable for the work they carry out in managing these properties to ensure that residents are getting value for money; and if he will make a...

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: I wish to share time with Deputy Healy-Rae.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Shane Ross: Then I will withdraw in favour of Deputy Healy-Rae.

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Shane Ross: I wish to respond the Minister of State's comments. His attempt to wrap those in opposition around him and state we were united in agreement on the bones of the motion was complete and utter nonsense. He said: "They also are agreed, to various degrees, that the State should continue discussions with its international partners on how this can be achieved and in general terms that the State...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2012)

Shane Ross: This is a dark day for Ireland by any measure. Whatever the Taoiseach's likes and dislikes about what is happening, it is a dismal day when we must hand over €1.2 billion. My concern is with regard to the Government response to legitimate criticism on what it is doing today which is, after all, implementing the policies of the previous Government. The scare tactics used in response to...