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Seanad: Budget 2010: Statements (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I am sorry the senior Minister is not here. The Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, may raise his eyes to heaven, but I am sick and tired of having debates in a vacuum here, where the Minister for Finance and other Ministers do not come in.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Statements (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: We would be prepared, I believe, to fit into the Minister's timetable, in the event. It is a farce that continuously for debates on important subjects senior Ministers do not come here, and there is no point in pretending. I wish Deputy Mansergh was in the Cabinet. I am sure he would be a very fine Cabinet Minister, but he is not-----

Seanad: Budget 2010: Statements (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I do not give two hoots what happened during the Minister of State's years in the Seanad.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Statements (10 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: It was wrong then and it remains wrong. We want to see the senior Minister here to debate important matters of this sort. That is the reality and it is downgrading this debate to have a junior Minister in here, however able and ambitious.

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I would like to highlight the need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to ensure access to export credit insurance for exporters. I am sorry the Tánaiste, Deputy Coughlan, is not present for this debate. It is not unusual for a senior Minister to be absent in these circumstances. It is nice to see the Minister of State is here.

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: That is even better. I acknowledge that for the first time, a Minister of State represents an improvement on the senior Minister. The matter I am raising is very relevant in light of this afternoon's Budget Statement. If the economy is to come out of recession, it will be led by exports. It is important for the Government to recognise the need to help exports and exporters in any way...

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He does not expect me to accept it but-----

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I get to disappoint the Minister of State as well. I wish to ask him about the release of the report.

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I will be brief but I am entitled to ask a question. I do not accept that commercial sensitivities are a good enough reason for not issuing the report. Would the Minister of State consider releasing it with the commercially sensitive parts redacted? If there are commercially sensitive elements they could be removed, as happens with many other reports, and let the findings and the reasons...

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: Ignore that.

Seanad: Export Credit Insurance (9 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: Another report has been buried.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: He should resign.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: Yesterday, I raised an issue which will be dear to the Leader's heart, namely, the courage of the backbenchers in his party in raising the issues which were going on in the talks up the road. I would like his response to what I regard as a very serious remark by a leader of a public service trades union yesterday, when one of them - I believe I am not meant to mention his name - went on...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: If the Senator and the others want to dissociate themselves from him, let us hear them say so.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: It tells us a lot because a public service trade unionist has told Members of the Oireachtas to shut up on issues of national importance and to leave it to him and the others. That is a serious matter. Yesterday Moody's carried out a new credit rating review of Ireland. It stated it was looking at the Irish budget next week with a view to downgrading our credit rating again. I hope to God...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I congratulate the three members of Fianna Fáil - Deputies Mulcahy, Mattie McGrath and Chris Andrews - who stated on "Morning Ireland" that they were sick and tired of the trade unions dictating both how the country should be run and how the budget should be framed. There is a message in this for everyone. The House is once again in the dark about what is happening and what will be...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: I am sick and tired of people in this House paying tribute to the trade union movement, particularly at a time when the latter is bringing the country to the verge of bankruptcy. In view of the fact that next week's budget is vital, it is depressing to see the Government once again jumping to the tune called by the trade unions. Decisions relating to the budget should be made by those who...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Shane Ross: I endorse much of what has been said about the appointment in AIB, news of which has leaked out in the past ten days. As Senator Alex White noted, this issue concerns authority and who makes the decisions in this country. More than six months ago the Minister for Finance and the Government made it clear that the appointment would be external. This was announced in the wake of the stunt the...