Results 601-620 of 19,162 for speaker:Alan Shatter

Irish Economy: Motion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2008)

Alan Shatter: The Minister of State could have gone through the entire litany.

Hospital Acquired Infections. (30 Sep 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the level of hospital infections such as MRSA and C. difficile; the action taken in the past three years to tackle this problem; and her further views on the need for a new programme to be put in place in order to eliminate the existence of such diseases within hospitals. [31909/08]

Hospital Acquired Infections. (30 Sep 2008)

Alan Shatter: Will the Minister accept that it was an act of unforgivable Government negligence that we did not until recently have a national surveillance system? Will she agree that the absence of such a system meant that her Department, for many years and certainly throughout the 11 years she has been a Minister in the recent Administrations, had no overall perspective on the level of hospital acquired...

Hospital Acquired Infections. (30 Sep 2008)

Alan Shatter: Would the Minister agree that 956 instances of C. difficile recorded between May and this date, is a frightening number? Does she have available to the House the number of persons so recorded who have died either as a consequence of having C. difficile or whose death has been related to it? Can she confirm that in September at least two patients in Beaumont Hospital died as a consequence of...

Hospital Acquired Infections. (30 Sep 2008)

Alan Shatter: What about C. difficile?

Hospital Acquired Infections. (30 Sep 2008)

Alan Shatter: People are dying in hospitals.

Hospital Acquired Infections. (30 Sep 2008)

Alan Shatter: They do not have to die. They have contracted C. difficile in hospital.

Business of Dáil: Motion (30 Sep 2008)

Alan Shatter: Hear, hear.

Business of Dáil: Motion (30 Sep 2008)

Alan Shatter: It will not be passed.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Sep 2008)

Alan Shatter: Is the Minister proud of Fianna Fáil's role in this debacle?

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: I will endeavour to stay within the parameters laid down by the Ceann Comhairle. I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this amendment. Some of what I will say is as relevant to amendment No. 1 as it is to other amendments tabled. What encapsulates the concern of Members of this House is that the Bill is essentially a skeleton that must be fleshed out. Other speakers have correctly...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——or at least delineates what might be better referred to as factors or principles that are applicable to the terms and conditions so that this House exercises some degree of control. In fairness to the Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan, he is a fairly rounded and sane individual. If, for example, this legislation must be extended and there is another Minister for Finance who loses his...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Effectively, the court, in referring to the Cityview Press Limited case of 1980, stated: [I]t was agreed by the parties that under the Constitution (in particular Article 6, s.2, and Article 15, s.2, sub-s.1) there is a limit upon the extent to which legislative power may be delegated to subordinate agencies by the Oireachtas, and that it is not competent for the Oireachtas by such delegation...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: I am addressing specifically the issue of the terms and conditions, no other issue.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: As you will see, Sir, it will not be when I get to the point I am about to make. I have a genuine concern and am not trying to make a point for the sake of it. This is far-reaching legislation. At present, we see ourselves addressing an immediate issue concerning the functioning of the banks in this State and their capacity to conduct business on a normal basis. We, in this House, need to...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: It can but, according to the Minister's announcement to date, it will not. If he intends to extend it, as he can, to subsidiaries of banks operating outside the State, there is an even greater reason that we should know what the terms and conditions of that should be to ensure the Irish taxpayer is not left at risk by lending outside this State by banks associated with subsidiaries. My point...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——on the basis that it has been substantially disadvantaged in the market, that it has been discriminated against, that Article 43 of the Constitution has been violated and, more particularly in this instance, that any scheme the Minister makes goes so far beyond the powers of delegated legislation as to render the legislation invalid or ultra vires. This is an important issue and it is...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: It was in 1999. I have a preference for doing what the Laurentiu ruling suggested we do, that is, set out specific guidelines and principles that to an extent direct and constrain, on a legislative basis, the manner in which the Minister might exercise his discretion. This is a very important issue and goes to the root of this legislation. This is legislation produced in haste. Such...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: It is the bulls that have caused some of the problem, it is the bears that are now taking over and we are all in difficulty because of it. In the context of the 1998 case, the scheme developed by the then Minister for Agriculture and Food by way of delegated legislation, that is, dividing the country into particular regions with regard to the artificial insemination of cows, an area in which...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: I wish to return to section 5(1) and the issues I previously raised with the Minister. It is an extremely odd section in terms of how it is phrased. It states: The Minister may, in respect of any difficulty that arises in the operation of this Act during the period of 2 years beginning on the relevant date, make regulations to do anything that appears necessary or expedient for bringing...