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Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: A Cheann Comhairle——

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: I return to the legislation on the Children First guidelines. Would the Tánaiste agree that it is a national scandal that there are hundreds of children——

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——at risk of abuse whose cases are not being investigated?

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: I have before me the statement issued by the Minister of State with responsibility for children following the publication of the Ferns Report. He said the review of the guidelines would be complete by December 2007. Has that review been completed yet? Will it be published? When will it be put in the Oireachtas Library and be available for a debate in this House? Does the Government...

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——will be repeated in ten years' time. We must look back at what is happening now.

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: Will that review be published? Is there an outcome to the review? Is it a private chat between the Department with responsibility for children and the Health Service Executive?

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: You are the Tánaiste and this is an important issue.

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: Children have died in this country as a consequence of child abuse.

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: The Ferns Report made substantial recommendations. We are entitled to know five months later if those guidelines will be given statutory force and——

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——if the review will be published.

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: Is there any change to the review?

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000: Motion (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: I will start at the point at which my colleague, Deputy Brian Hayes, started by saying I agree entirely with everything he said and I hope to add to it. This commission of inquiry, which has been sitting for a long time, has the important task of looking to the past and reporting on what occurred in our residential institutions. In the context of the investigation committee, it will seek to...

Dublin Transport Authority Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: I congratulate the Government on finally bringing forward this Bill. I was a Member of this House when my former, sadly deceased, colleague, Jim Mitchell, brought forward legislation in 1986 to set up a Dublin transport authority to resolve the problem of the fragmentation of transport services in Dublin. Unfortunately, that legislation was scrapped by Fianna Fáil in 1987. The Fianna...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (27 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 346: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that, as a consequence of the Government failing to implement promises made on the pupil-teacher ratio, a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16 will lose a teacher for the academic year commencing in 2008 and instead of a reduction of the pupil-teacher ratio this will mean an increase in...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (27 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 347: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that as a consequence of the Government failing to implement promises made on the pupil-teacher ratio a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18, will lose a teacher for the academic year commencing in 2008 and instead of a reduction of the pupil teacher ratio this will mean an increase in...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (27 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 348: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that as a consequence of the Government failing to implement promises made on the pupil-teacher ratio a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18, will lose a teacher for the academic year commencing in 2008 and instead of a reduction of the pupil-teacher ratio this will mean an increase in...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: After 11 years in Government, is the Taoiseach responsible for anything?

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: It is just a bigger bureaucracy.

Legislative Programme. (28 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he proposes to introduce legislation to provide for the prosecution in domestic courts here of Irish nationals who commit offences abroad regarding sexual conduct with children; and his views on whether such legislation is necessary. [15332/08]

Legislative Programme. (28 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: This question specifically arose as a result of the final report of the review inquiry into what has become known as the McElwee case. In June 2004, it was alleged that an Irish citizen, employed by the Midland Health Board and engaged in work for the child and youth care learning centre in Athlone Institute of Technology, sexually assaulted an individual while on a visit to Amsterdam to...