Results 321-340 of 19,162 for speaker:Alan Shatter
- Health Services. (24 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: It is a pity the Minister of State did not have the presence of mind to exclude that sentence.
- Health Services. (24 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: It is a farce that Ministers and Ministers of State come into this House to make statements of this nature rather than treat the matter seriously.
- Health Services. (24 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: I have no idea why we have a Minister and Department for Health and Children as they obviously have no functions any more of any description.
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has submitted to her a report for the first quarter of 2008 pursuant to the HSE national service plan which requires the provision of performance indicators for each HSE region on the number of notifications of child abuse or neglect received, the number of assessments conducted following notifications,...
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: I am trying to digest all of this. I wish to ask the Minister of State an extraordinarily simple question. How many children reported to the HSE throughout the country's various sub-regions as being at risk of neglect or abuse are awaiting assessment at present?
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: Will the Minister of State confirm that the HSE has a statutory obligation under the Child Care Act 1991 to publish an annual report relating to child welfare services? Will he also confirm that the HSE is in breach of this in that it took until the end of February 2008 to produce a report for 2005? The Minister of State does not have a report for 2006 or 2007. Am I right in understanding...
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: It is a disgrace. The whole thing is a disgrace.
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: It was completed in February 2008.
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: It was not published until February 2008.
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: It languished in the Department from July 2007.
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: Did the Minister of State discover why it took it three years to publish it?
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: The Minister of State does not know how many children are not being investigated having been reported as being at risk.
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: There is no point having a constitutional referendum as window dressing if the Department does not have this basic information.
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: I appreciate what the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is saying but we have learned enough about children at risk who have been abused in this countryââ
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: It is an absolute disgrace that we have a Department that is masquerading as knowing what is going on in this area.
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: The Department does not have a clue what is going on.
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: That is true.
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: I have been since the beginning of January trying to get specific information. I am aggrieved it is not available.
- Child Abuse. (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: How can policy decisions be made without this information?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2008)
Alan Shatter: The Minister has failed abysmally.