Results 541-560 of 19,162 for speaker:Alan Shatter
- Constitutional Amendments. (8 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: The Minister is prevaricating. The Government has done nothing since 2006.
- Juvenile Offenders. (8 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: Does the Minister of State agree it is unacceptable that legislation which was passed in 2001 should take six or seven years to be commenced by ministerial order? Does he accept that this makes a mockery of the rules of this House? Will the new campus at Oberstown be largely modelled on the Woodlands juvenile justice centre in Bangor, County Down? What types of facilities will be provided...
- Juvenile Offenders. (8 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: It makes a mockery of the Government's public relations exercise in 2001.
- Casino Regulation. (8 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: In the context of this urgent problem, which requires public discussion and consideration by Members of the Oireachtas, can the Minister explain why this report has been suppressed by the Government for a year? Can he explain why it was not published a long time ago? Would the Minister agree that gambling, and particularly Internet betting, is ravaging the lives of many young people in...
- Casino Regulation. (8 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: The Minister is looking for a fall guy to take decisions he is incapable of making.
- Casino Regulation. (8 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: Does the Minister have any view on any aspect of the report?
- Casino Regulation. (8 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: The Minister has not considered it either and he is afraid to do so.
- Casino Regulation. (8 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: The Minister is playing political games with this issue, as he is with the referendum.
- Casino Regulation. (8 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: The Government has had the report for a year. Does it have any view on it?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: The Government created this.
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: Question 326: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the parents of children suffering from intellectual disability whose children until the end of the 2007/2008 school year attended a school (details supplied) have been informed that the rehabilitative training programme in which the children were to participate from September 2008 in a...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: Question 733: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will sanction the construction of a school extension for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 6W; the consideration given by her Department to date regarding the required extension; the stage within his Department of the school's request; and if all further required sanctions will be given without delay. [27362/08]
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: It is not even on the web.
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: Do they know what governing means?
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: Zimbabwe.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: Apparently, the Government cannot legislate at all.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: I want to address the same theme as previously raised, in the context of promised legislation. This Government has essentially been castrating the House as a legislative Assembly. It seems intent on undermining our constitutional duty to hold the Government to account. In the context of that, will the Minister say when will the adoption Bill, which has been promised for eight years and is...
- Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: It should have been brought before the House.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: A commitment was given to the effect that three of those reports would be before this House by 8 July, published, completed and available.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Alan Shatter: Today is 10 July.