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Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: There are huge problems because they are not on a statutory basis.

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: The Government has been treading carefully for ten years on this. It has been treading so carefully it will drown under the weight of the issue.

Child Protection Issues. (17 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: I thank the Acting Chairman for the opportunity to raise this issue. In the brief time available, I will only be able to touch on some of the issues that arise out of the publication of what is known as the McElwee review report. It is a damning indictment of Departments and State agencies in respect of their abysmal failure to comply with the Children First guidelines, which were...

Child Protection Issues. (17 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Complete nonsense.

Child Protection Issues. (17 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Instead, the guidelines are entirely ignored.

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive will publish its formal guidance document on residential facilities for adults with a disability; when quality and safety measures will be included in contractual arrangements between the HSE and agencies that provide a disability service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14412/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (17 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 493: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the boards of management of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16 have been instructed by her Department not to proceed to apply for planning permission for the construction of the essential new primary school facilities following on from her Department in November 2007 giving what is known as stage three technical...

Order of Business (22 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Is the Taoiseach aware there is a statutory duty on the HSE to publish annual reports about its children's services? Can the Taoiseach explain the reason the 2005 report only became available approximately four weeks ago, as well as the lack of reports for 2006 and 2007? When will these reports be made available? Does the Taoiseach accept that neither the HSE nor the Minister of State with...

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (22 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the delay in producing the McCoy report into allegations of physical and sexual abuse in residential homes managed by an order (details supplied) has been investigated as was promised; if the outcome of the investigation has been furnished to her; and when it will be published. [15333/08]

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (22 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has completed its work on developing protocols for the management of all future inquiries such as the inquiry which resulted in the McCoy report. [15334/08]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Information and Quality Authority has completed its work on standards for designated residential centres for people with a disability; and if it has not done so, when this work will be completed and published. [15335/08]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (22 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 438: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the chairman of An Bord Pleanála has expressed concerns regarding the inadequacy of guidelines on the necessity for adequate spacing of septic tanks in particular conditions; if he will ensure that adequate guidelines are prescribed to include limitations on...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (22 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 439: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 638 of 27 November 2007, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a concern raised by the chairman of An Bord Pleanála in relation to effluent disposal results from the failure of some planning authorities to comply with the guidelines referred to...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (23 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: At the outset, I congratulate the Labour Party on the motion before the House this evening. I fully support it, as does the Fine Gael Party, although it is regrettable at this stage in the life of a Government in which some Ministers have been in office for 11 years. The Minister, Deputy Harney, who has served as Tánaiste and now is simply Minister for Health and Children, has been a...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (23 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Is the Deputy suggesting that the plight of individuals should be ignored?

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (23 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: We should ignore stroke victims.

Cancer Reports: Statements (24 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Today we discuss the findings of the Rebecca O'Malley report, the Barringtons Hospital report and the Fitzgerald, Doherty and O'Doherty reports into the Portlaoise cancer crisis. All these reports are a damning indictment of 11 years of Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats policy, now supported by the Green Party. In the past three years, we have had a health policy run by a Minister who...

Cancer Reports: Statements (24 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Articulate elegance.

Pension Provisions. (24 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 7: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the basis of the State's recalculation of public service pension provisions as published recently by his Department; and if a similar recalculation of the liability to social welfare pensions will take place. [15722/08]

Health Services. (24 Apr 2008)

Alan Shatter: For many years Leopardstown Park Hospital has provided respite care to facilitate carers at home looking after elderly spouses or other relatives to have at least one week a year off for the sake of their own health and psychological well-being. Leopardstown Park Hospital has a ward of 21 beds that, unexpectedly and arbitrarily, are to be closed from 5 May. A number of constituents in my...