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

Alan Shatter: The difficulty with this Bill is that the things a whistleblower could do are constrained. The Government was wrong to have adopted a policy to provide legislation in regard to whistleblowers in, as the Minister puts it, a sectoral context rather than a global context. A global piece of legislation could have been drafted which contained within it, for example, specific exceptions that...

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

Alan Shatter: I have nothing to add.

Schools Building Projects (16 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise the issue. The need to build a new primary school in Knocklyon has been on the political agenda for at least 15 years. This is the largest primary school in the country; approximately 1,500 students attend it. For far too long a large portion of the classrooms have been prefabricated buildings, many of which have long passed their use-by...

Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: We should abolish democracy and have Fianna Fáil Government for the next 20 years.

Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: You were engaged in discussions and concealed that.

Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Taoiseach is engaging in semantics now.

Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Does the Taoiseach know what the four-year plan is?

Garda Operations (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he has received a report from the Garda Commissioner on the policing of the student demonstrations that took place outside Leinster House and in the vicinity of Leinster House on Wednesday 3 November 2010; the number of gardaí injured as a result of objects being thrown at them and the nature of the injuries sustained; if he...

Garda Operations (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Does the Minister agree the maintenance of peace and public order when demonstrations take place is of crucial importance? Does he agree that any person who injured a garda at a demonstration deserves condemnation? It is of particular importance that respect is shown to members of the Garda Síochána exercising their policing duties on behalf of the public. Does the Minister acknowledge...

Garda Operations (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Does the Minister agree that in demonstrations such as this, where there appears to be a minority intent on creating trouble, it is of enormous importance that the Garda Síochána is conscious of who these people are, that there is no overreaction and that innocent individuals behaving correctly do not find themselves confronted in an aggressive manner so that they feel threatened or are...

Garda Operations (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Will there be a report on this event?

Garda Investigations (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to an article (details supplied) relating to the death of Father Niall Molloy on 18 July 1985 regarding the investigation conducted into his death and the trial that followed; if in view of the revelations contained in the report he will ask the Garda Commissioner for the investigation into Father...

Garda Investigations (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Could the Minister indicate to the House when the meetings that are to take place as arranged through the Garda Commissioner will occur? Does the Minister agree that the recent revelations are disturbing and indicate the possibility that the integrity of the investigation into the death of Fr. Molloy was compromised, and second, that serious question marks arise about the manner in which the...

Garda Investigations (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Will the Minister assure the House that, in the context of the Garda re-examining the matter, the discussions and interviews to be conducted will go beyond the journalist and the second individual? The Garda should interview other individuals who are available and who may have information that could assist in determining whether a further criminal prosecution is warranted. If the Garda...

Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his views that pre-existing commercial leases which prescribe upwards only rent reviews pose a serious threat to the economic viability of many businesses and to the protection of employment and the action he proposes to take; if his attention has been drawn to any reports of landlords incentivising commercial tenants to agree...

Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Will the Minister acknowledge that there is a continuing problem in this area, in particular with institutional landlords in the context of retail outlets seeking to address issues of rent reviews? To maintain the capital value of their balance sheets, they are resisting any type of new arrangement, other than one that involves a rent increase, or at the very minimum rents remaining at...

Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: I am pleased the Minister has indicated he is going to make an amendment in the Bill when it comes before the House on Committee Stage. Will that database prescribe that the address of premises be included, as well as the rent and the date it was fixed, together with other arrangements relating to the organisation of a new rent for an existing lease, including those agreed before February...

Prison Committals (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: How many have absconded? Is it more or less than 400?

Prison Committals (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Minister does not care that people have absconded.

Prison Committals (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: I would have thought that is a basic question the Minister would know the answer to.