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Adjournment Debate Matters (3 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: We have a former Taoiseach jumping out of cupboards and the Minister hiding behind doors. What a farce.

Issue of Writ: Donegal South-West By-election (4 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: How much time is left?

Issue of Writ: Donegal South-West By-election (4 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: I want to deal with the judgment and the Government's approach to it. It is worth putting formally on the record of the House what was said in the High Court yesterday. I notice that the Tánaiste studiously avoided doing so in her speech. The judgment stated that "the court will declare that section 39(2) of the Electoral Act 1992 is to be construed as requiring that the writ for a...

Issue of Writ: Donegal South-West By-election (4 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: I will conclude on this point. The Government is now trying to misuse the courts at taxpayers' expense and make what could only be described in legal terms as a frivolous, vexatious and unnecessary application to the Supreme Court. The issue in dispute in these proceedings was should there or should there not be a by-election in the Tánaiste's constituency in Donegal. The High Court held...

Issue of Writ: Donegal South-West By-election (4 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: -----to ensure that people are provided with the representation to which they are entitled in accordance with de Valera's Constitution. One could not get a more perverse application from a Fianna Fáil-led Government than the one they now intend to proceed to make to the Supreme Court. I hope the Supreme Court has the wisdom to tell them that there is no longer a justiciable issue and...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (4 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: I welcome the fact that this Bill is before the House and that we are discussing it. As the Minister correctly stated, the Bill addresses a broad range of different issues, some of which have been waiting in the wings for some time to be addressed. The Bill is a disappointment, however, because there is a broad range of other issues with regard to civil law that have been ignored for too...

Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (9 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: I welcome the fact that this Bill is now finally before the House. As with every action of the current Government, the stable door is being closed after the horse has bolted. It is interesting to return to the origins of this legislation. During the early years of the property boom, there was substantial public concern over the conduct of auctioneers and estate agents. Instead of...

Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (9 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: They are all advising NAMA.

Written Answers — Prison Visiting Committees: Prison Visiting Committees (9 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 286: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will provide details of the cost in each of the past three years in respect of each of the 15 prison visiting committees; the expenses paid to each member of each prison visiting committee; if he will detail all other costs in each of the past three years connected with each visiting committee's work and the drafting and...

Written Answers — Banking Charges: Banking Charges (10 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Finance his specific proposals to incentivise bank customers to more frequently use plastic cards and to reduce their use of ATM machines to access their own cash from their own bank accounts; to detail the exact additional charge he proposes the banks impose on bank customers accessing cash; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35526/10]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (11 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the co-location policy; her views that the Voluntary Health Insurance, VHI, will not cover its customers in co-located private hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41978/10]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (11 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the remaining sanction required to facilitate the construction of a new school (details supplied) to go to tender; when it is expected a decision will be made to sanction commencement of the tendering process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42100/10]

Written Answers — Payment of Fines: Payment of Fines (11 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 193: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 19 October 2010, if he yet has available to him the required information to provide the promised response; if he will provide the information in response to this question and if he does not have the relevant information to explain the nature of the difficulty that has arisen in this...

Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: For someone who destroyed the country, a little humility might be a good idea.

Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: We should just stay quiet.

Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: It created the crisis. It is responsible for it.

Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Now it wants praise for trying to tackle it incompetently.

Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is a farce.

Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: The insolvency of Anglo Irish Bank is why we are where we are.

Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages. (16 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, to delete lines 15 to 48, to delete pages 6 to 9 and substitute the following: "4.—The Act of 2001 is amended by inserting the following sections after section 8: 8A.—(1) In this Part, 'employee' and 'employer' have the same meaning as in the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1997-2007. (2) In this Part, 'penalise' includes any act or omission by an employer or a...