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Leaders' Questions (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Is the Taoiseach satisfied that there are ten members on the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board? Without going into the details relating to the entire board, I point out that three of the members are known as lay members. These three members of the board have retired and this has resulted in a corresponding number of vacancies. When it was in office, the previous Government filled such...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: -----who previously ran as a Fianna Fáil candidate for election to Europe.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I did not have time to research the third person put forward for appointment but I suspect that individual possesses similar credentials to the other two. Will the Taoiseach provide an assurance that he will not fill the vacancies to which I refer with the same political bias as that displayed by his predecessors?

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the names of the most highly paid officials in his Department over the past three years; the basic salaries paid to them; the bonuses paid to them; the expenses incurred by them; the details of any bonuses not paid to top officials for which they were eligible; if officials in his Department are better paid than equivalent...

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I am happy if the Minister does not want to read out the figures and just replies to the substantive issues I raised.

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Will the Minister outline details of bonuses paid to top officials and say, in particular, if they have been paid recently? Are officials in his Department paid more than those in equivalent grades in other Departments? If so, why? Will this practice continue?

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I do not understand why officials in the Department of Finance should be paid more than anybody else in the public service. The figures the Minister read out are pretty staggering even in their reduced form. Will he comment on the fact that officials in the Department, long regarded as the crème de la crème of the public service, are for some extraordinary reason paid more than other...

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Deputy Doherty raised the issue of Colm Doherty, the chief executive office of AIB, being paid outrageous amounts, which were obviously signed off by individuals at the highest level in the Department of Finance, who themselves are on this gravy train. Is the Minister satisfied with the continuing process whereby these people are paid more and, in turn, award more in redundancy payments to...

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I have one quick supplementary question.

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: It is just one sentence. These are the people who have prime responsibility for the economic collapse and these are the people who are paid most for their actual performance. Is the Minister satisfied with that?

Commissions of Investigation (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Finance the process whereby the nominees as members of the expert investigation team to assist the Nyberg Commission were made; the person who made the appointments; with whom did Mr. Nyberg consult on the appointments; on whose recommendation they were made; and the amount the team was paid collectively and individually. [9899/11]

Commissions of Investigation (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister but I am afraid he has not satisfactorily answered the question. If I could specifically readdress the question to him, it was how the appointments were made and how the individuals were selected. It is reasonable to ask the question about the arrival from Finland of a man to set up a 13-person commission and how he came to assemble it, particularly when one considers...

Commissions of Investigation (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Is it satisfactory to the Minister that a majority of those people who were advising the commission, chosen, apparently, by Mr. Peter Nyberg, should be either bankers or former officials of the Department of Finance? Is it not correct as a result that at the very least we should know how those people were chosen? What is so unsatisfactory in the response which the Minister has given - he...

Appointments to State Boards (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: What the Taoiseach spelled out in respect of his plans leaves one suspicious that the holes that are so apparent in it were dug by him and his Ministers. Given that the advertisements to which he refers and the recommendations and operations of the joint committee can be completely ignored by a Minister making an appointment, what is to stop Ministers who do not possess scruples or integrity...

Appointments to State Boards (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: Could they nominate one of their friends?

Appointments to State Boards (3 May 2011)

Shane Ross: I will give the Taoiseach their names again if he likes.

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 25: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if he will launch a full investigation into malpractices in CIE following the Baker Tilly Report on Iarnród Éireann; his views that the CIE non-executive directors refused to attend meetings of the Joint Oireachtas Transport Committee in the 30th Dáil and if he will instruct them to do so; if he will provide a full...

Written Answers — Airport Development Projects: Airport Development Projects (20 Apr 2011)

Shane Ross: Question 172: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the commercial success or failure of Terminal Two at Dublin Airport; in view of its performance to date, his plans to reduce the remuneration of the DAA chief executive (details supplied). [8846/11]

Commission of Inquiry into Banking Sector: Statements (20 Apr 2011)

Shane Ross: With the permission of the House, I wish to share time with Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett, Clare Daly and Thomas Pringle.

Commission of Inquiry into Banking Sector: Statements (20 Apr 2011)

Shane Ross: This report, in its essence, produces nothing new. There is no news in it and no new figures. Indeed, there are no new characters to blame in it, and no institutions. Mr. Nyberg spreads the blame in an even-handed way, which has prompted a large number of people to suggest that this was deliberate and that the report is a whitewash. I do not believe that but it is ineffective in its...