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Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Shane Ross: I ought to conclude with the one point I really want to make.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Shane Ross: I took rather a long time.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Shane Ross: The Minister addressed the Anglo Irish Bank issue in his interruptions of Senator Donohoe but perhaps he might expand on the issues regarding NAMA he raised at the meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service yesterday. NAMA's optimistic profit forecast has suddenly turned into a pessimistic loss forecast. Is he satisfied that the banks have been telling lies about the...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Shane Ross: Yesterday, when the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, spoke to the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service, he made a welcome concession on the banking inquiry. In response to a Labour Party amendment he said he would allow the inquiry to move beyond the September deadline, an issue that had been the source of legitimate contention in all parties for a long time. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Shane Ross: -----as a result of the bankers lying about the way the loans had been serviced. If they are to be allowed get away with this, what is the point in having an inquiry, for example, up to the date of nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank on 15 January 2009? If they continue to do exactly the same things, the inquiry will have no effect. I suggest, therefore, that we look more deeply into this...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Shane Ross: We should not tolerate this because, again, the bankers are misleading the politicians.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: I have a leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: I wish to address the issue raised by Senators Mullen and Ó Murchú in the past few minutes. It is important that those of us who do not necessarily agree with the views expressed by those in the hierarchy should defend their right to state them. It is difficult to maintain that they should keep their mouths shut because we do not like what they say and it is wrong do so. We should let...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: Like other Members of this House, it is welcome that the Minister for Finance is initiating an investigation into what happened in the Department of Finance in recent years. Further to what Senator Regan said, it is inconceivable that this could happen without the Taoiseach being a key witness and being investigated. Provided this is a genuine investigation into what happened - I believe it...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: For us to say we should not allow them is paternalistic and censorship. Where does one go from there? We would be taking the attitude that we knew better and we knew the issues on which people should vote.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: It is only one sentence.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: There is nothing wrong with people being influenced in their vote by opinion polls. If they want to get on a bandwagon, let them do so; it is up to them. I cannot understand what we are talking about.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: It is unusual to have a debate of this sort with a motion tabled in such blatant terms in this House. This always puts Independents in a difficult situation as they have to come off the fence on a motion as crude as this but it is my view and that of a large number of people in the country that, for various reasons, Fianna Fáil has been too long in office. The numbers will be more familiar...

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: The evidence for that is obvious not so much in the conduct of people in these Houses or the legislation they put forward but in the way semi-State companies are governed. One will find the infiltration of these companies by Fianna Fáil over that period has been quite devastating. Anybody who looks at the boards of the quangos in this country will realise it will take many years to...

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: There will be an election. I accept the democratic will of the people.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: I am entitled to a point of view.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: Does Senator O'Malley not understand that? When she joins Fianna Fáil, she will probably get some other form of patronage, as she has done already. She is one of the beneficiaries of this system. I worry about the Judiciary and the system of appointing judges. If one party is in power too long, there is a danger that judges of a particular political complexion will also be appointed....

Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: This is a different type of banking debate because of the publication of these reports, which I welcome. I also regret to some extent that the reports almost inevitably are used in a kind of blame game between the Government and the Opposition. I do not refer to the Minister of State's contribution, which was not so much like that. Inevitably, however, what happens here is that Members...

Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: It is what they call "scoping"; however, I do not know what that means.

Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)

Shane Ross: They were meant to be preliminary reports, blazing a trail for the next one. Professor Honohan said he was not sure there was an awful lot left to investigate. I would be interested in hearing the Minister of State's response to that remark. Professor Honohan was really saying we had got to the bottom of the problem by analysing it. I do not really agree with that because one of the...