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Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: Talk of default-----

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: Talk of default-----

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: Yes. We are in a negative situation.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: I will ask the Senator to leave the House if he is not careful.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: The Government has led us into this crisis.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: It was the Government which allowed the banks to behave in the way they did, was close to the developers and let the regulator off the hook. Why did it do this? Today we are being told time and again not to worry and everything is fine because we are only going back as far as 2006. That is the spin that has been put on it. Social welfare payments are returning to what they were in 2006....

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: Alan Dukes is one, but what about Ray MacSharry?

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: What about-----

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: What about Joe Walsh?

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: What about Aidan Eames? Are they not Fianna Fáil people?

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: Are they not Fianna Fáil people? Yes, they are.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: The Government has never lost its knack of appointing its friends to State boards. When it nationalised Anglo Irish Bank, it appointed Mr. Aidan Eames, a fund-raiser, to the board. The situation was far too serious for such individuals to be appointed to boards and for Fianna Fáil to appoint ex-Ministers, able though they might have been. It should have appointed individuals without a...

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: Well read.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2011: Statements (8 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: As a veteran of many budget debates in this House, I am reasonably used to the pattern of such debates, namely, the Government spokespersons speak about the parts of the budget of which they approve and the Opposition spokespersons speak about the parts of it about which they can be critical and which hurt individual sectors. While this is not a difficult game to play, it is much more...

Seanad: EU-IMF Programme for Ireland: Statements (2 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: It is difficult to approach this subject. From an Independent's point of view it is even harder than it is from the Government's in some ways because the wish is that any package of this sort should be successful. Indeed, there is a reluctance on the part of Opposition Members even to oppose it in its entirety or to criticise it because it appears that one may be in danger - I do not...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: To some extent, I endorse what Senator Donohoe and others have said about the Central Bank report. However, I am amazed that they are amazed about it. It is somewhat difficult to believe they are shocked or surprised because that is the way bankers behave. The Central Bank report was relatively mild because the bank pulls its punches when it raises these issues. In effect, the report...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: We should not be because it was obvious they were going to do this all along.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: The fault lies with the Government which now owns the banks and makes the appointments. It has full control of all the banks, including Bank of Ireland.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Shane Ross: Let us attack the culture. We should not be surprised that the banks are regrouping because that is in their nature.