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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: Fianna Fáil has run rings around the Green Party from the beginning.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: I have one more question.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: I will be brief. Why is time not being allocated to debate the deal being discussed by Deputy Kenny and the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso? Why is the Government not grabbing this deal, given suggestions the penal interest rate could be renegotiated which shows the European Union feels guilty about what it imposed on us? The Government could-----

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: -----give the guarantees sought on debt if we were to secure a reduced interest rate. Let us debate that matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: I thank Senator Leyden for the compliments he extended to me. Unfortunately, I could not hear them over the noise.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: I understand Senator Leyden also endorsed Senator Alex White, so I am in good company.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: I have been a Member of this House a long time and have never seen government by pantomime but this is government by pure pantomime. I would expect Fianna Fáil in its worst hours to behave as it is doing, by asking, in effect, readying up Ministers to resign and filling those Ministries with others.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: Some years ago I would have expected a little more of the Green Party and I suppose it is no coincidence that the three Members of that party are not here this morning. I imagine they are in another cabal somewhere-----

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: -----in another part of Leinster House ready to come out and whitewash the Government once again. We were told this morning on the radio that the Green Party was unhappy with what the Government was doing. The Green Party has been unhappy about many things for a very long time but it seems to be able to take some sort of special magic mushroom happy-happy pills which keeps it-----

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: I am going to ask the Leader a question. The Green Party seems to stay on board. It was unhappy, so unhappy in November that it was going to force a general election in January. It was so unhappy last week that it was going to force a general election in March and so unhappy is it this morning that, presumably, it is going to come out and state it has examined its conscience and will allow...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: The Ministers must give a guarantee if they are coming into power that they will not use this very short period simply to appoint cronies to positions of power in semi-State bodies from their locality and from local Fianna Fáil positions.

Seanad: Export-led Growth: Motion (19 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: I am grateful for this opportunity to speak to this motion. I recognise, as should Members on all sides of the House, despite the amendment tabled, that there is great hope in the export figures we received recently. Whether they were delivered by fluke, design or clever Government measures I am not sure, but they have happened and they are certainly a crutch for the Government in its hour...

Seanad: Export-led Growth: Motion (19 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: Exactly the same happened in Geneva two weeks ago. Exactly the same.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: It must be very convenient for the Fianna Fáil element of the Government that its Members will happily discuss climate change today, a subject they have carefully avoided for three and a half years. Today it is a source of great relief for them because the rest of the nation is talking about Anglo Irish Bank and the relationship between the Taoiseach and people in the bank. That subject is...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: I am seeking a debate and wish to ask the Leader questions. Does he think it is significant that Mr. Drury, a director of Anglo Irish Bank, also happened to be patronised by the same Government, undoubtedly with the approval of the Taoiseach when he was made chairman of the RTE Authority? That is a powerful gift within the power of the Government. Does the Leader think it is significant...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: -----but the frequency and the pattern of these meetings.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: We must not have the Taoiseach simply-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: I support what Senator Fitzgerald has said. There is a large problem here, which is not so much about the detail of what happened between Seán FitzPatrick and Brian Cowen. It is about the fact that the chairman and former chief executive of a rogue bank should have such easy access to the Taoiseach. This happened not once or twice but three times and, as I believe Senator Fitzgerald...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: Yes, I have a fundamental question for the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Shane Ross: The Leader would not allow a debate on a subject such this although I asked many times for it, especially concerning CIE. When Members debated a Bill on cronyism, it was voted down. Funnily enough, it was voted down by the Green Party, which placed exactly the same Bill before the Dáil.