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Seanad: Criminal Justice (Community Service) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jul 2011)

Alan Shatter: I thank Senators for their support and for taking the Bill today, allowing us to complete it. I share the hope of everyone here that it will make a significant difference to the manner in which sentencing is dealt with, particularly at District Court level.

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (27 Jul 2011)

Alan Shatter: I welcome the opportunity to return to the House to report on the further amendments made to the Bill in Dáil Éireann. A total of 33 amendments were proposed and approved during Committee and Report Stages. These were all Government amendments and were for the most part technical changes or text corrections. Two new Parts were added to the Bill, concerning the handling of documentation...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (27 Jul 2011)

Alan Shatter: I presume the first lot of amendments have been accepted.

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (27 Jul 2011)

Alan Shatter: Amendment No. 6 relates to amendments made to Part 4 and concerns the appeals procedures with regard to decisions of the Private Security Authority. Amendment No. 6 provides for a new section 16 to the Bill, in Part 4, the purpose of which is to make a number of amendments to the Second Schedule to the Private Security Services Act 2004 in order to simplify and streamline the procedures for...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (27 Jul 2011)

Alan Shatter: Will I go through all of it?

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (27 Jul 2011)

Alan Shatter: I did not want to prevent that. Amendments Nos. 7, 8, 10 and 11 are technical amendments to improve the text. They are amendments made to Part 6 with regard to the Employment Equality Act 1998 and the Equal Status Act 2000. Amendment No. 9 adds a subsection to section 20, the purpose of which is to remedy an omission in section 75(7) of the Act of 1998 to protect the independent functions...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (27 Jul 2011)

Alan Shatter: I thank everyone for their kind comments. As I said when I was appointed Minister, it came as a shock to the principal Opposition spokespersons in the Dáil when I took them aside and said that if they produced worthwhile amendments to legislation, I would take them on board. If they are worthwhile ideas that are not well put technically, I will examine how they can be reframed. In the...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Report into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (27 Jul 2011)

Alan Shatter: This is an important debate and although I was not in the House until half an hour ago, I followed the discussion on the monitor. I am aware of the speech delivered by my colleague, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald. There is nothing she said with which I disagree and since the Government was formed, she and I have been working together in the interests...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Report into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (27 Jul 2011)

Alan Shatter: The State did not introduce such legislation because it took in good faith what was stated in the framework document. That was the failing. We must ensure that we have a structure of laws in place which truly protects our children and imposes obligations on those who learn that children have been abused or are at risk of being abused to report this to the Garda Síochána to ensure...

Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2011)

Alan Shatter: The people are paying for the Deputy's abject failures as well.

Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2011)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy-----

Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2011)

Alan Shatter: It is the Deputy's legacy. It is a great example of brass neck.

Order of Business (14 Sep 2011)

Alan Shatter: We are too busy tidying up Fianna Fáil's mess.

Order of Business (14 Sep 2011)

Alan Shatter: At least we are being responsible.

Order of Business (14 Sep 2011)

Alan Shatter: I have done more in four months than Deputy O'Dea did in ten years.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (14 Sep 2011)

Alan Shatter: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 9 March 2011, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Defence, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for Education and Skills Minister for Children and Youth Affairs...

Supplementary Estimates 2011: Leave to Introduce (14 Sep 2011)

Alan Shatter: I move: That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimate for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2011:– Vote 42 — Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary Estimate)."

Supplementary Estimates 2011: Referral to Select Sub-Committee (14 Sep 2011)

Alan Shatter: I move: That, subject to leave being given to introduce the following Supplementary Estimate for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2011, the Supplementary Estimate be referred to the Select sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform, pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(c) and (6)(a) and 159(3), which shall report back to the Dáil by no later than 27 September:- Vote 42 —...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Tuarastal Breithiúna), 2011 — Ordú don Dara Céim / Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Judges' Remuneration) Bill 2011 — Order for Second Stage (14 Sep 2011)

Alan Shatter: Tairgim: "Go dtógfar an Dara Céim anois." I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Tuarastal Breithiúna), 2011 — An Dara Céim / Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Judges' Remuneration) Bill 2011 — Second Stage (14 Sep 2011)

Alan Shatter: Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille an Dara hUair anois." I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank colleagues for agreeing to consider this legislation at an early stage. Deputies will recall that when I published the Bill at the beginning of August it was with a view to everyone having adequate opportunity to consider it ahead of our debates in this House. This Bill honours a...