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Legislative Programme (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: The formula used in the House is that a Bill goes to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, but, as Members know, it is open to any Member to participate in a committee's deliberations on a Bill. The membership of a committee is only relevant in the case of a vote; this would not arise in the consideration of the heads of a Bill. It is completely open, for example, to the...

Organised Crime (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 69 and 398 to 400, inclusive, together. The Deputy will be aware from the replies I have provided for him in response to a number of recent parliamentary questions of my determination to ensure the necessary resources and measures will be in place to deal with organised crime, the fight against which is one of a number of priorities I have specifically set for...

Organised Crime (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: Obviously the Garda deploys a range of different strategies in targeting organised crime, those engaged in drug crime and those who use firearms, and the Deputy would not expect me to reveal those strategies in the House. However, I share the concern of every Member about the extent to which those engaged in organised crime are using firearms, their lack of respect for human life and their...

Organised Crime (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: I will take the questions in reverse order. There is substantial information available to the Garda on a broad range of individuals who might be engaged in criminality. I do not wish to say more than that. As to those who have not been brought before the courts on criminal prosecution, the Criminal Assets Bureau has performed a very important function in targeting assets that appear to...

Prisoner Releases (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: Part 10 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 provides for the introduction of electronic monitoring, or tagging as it is also known, in this jurisdiction. My predecessor made the relevant order in 2010 commencing the provisions in the context of a restriction of movement condition applying to the granting of temporary release. A project board was set up at the time to examine the area of...

Prisoner Releases (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: We are not looking at it in isolation. We have some pre-release programmes and there are a number of organisations, funded through the Department, that also look after prisoners following their release. The Probation Service engages with a considerable number of prisoners before they are released. Tagging is just one of a number of options available. It has proved useful in other...

Garda Stations (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: The names of the Garda stations which are scheduled to close in 2012 have been provided to the House in the policing plan for An Garda Síochána which I lodged with the House last December. For ease of reference for the Deputy I am circulating with this answer a table containing the names of those stations together with the names of the stations which will have reduced opening hours. This...

Garda Stations (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: This is a management issue for the Garda Commissioner. It is something that can be the subject of a conversation between us, but the Garda Commissioner has a statutory function in this regard. It would not be appropriate, therefore, for the Minister to designate or identify particular stations for closure. The Deputy has made the case for closure. He is talking about a Garda station that...

Coroners Service (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: Under the Coroners Act 1962, a coroner is an independent officeholder with responsibility under law for the medico-legal investigations of the circumstances of sudden, unexplained, violent and unnatural deaths. Regrettably, there is an increasing number of cases in society that involve suicide and fall to be investigated by coroners. In the conduct of that investigation I am mindful that...

Coroners Service (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy will appreciate that, because of the independence of coroners, it would not be appropriate for me to comment on the approach taken by an individual coroner. The duty of a coroner is to accurately record the cause of death and it is crucially important that he or she do so. In so far as reform is required in this area of the law, the Bill my predecessor published is being...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: That is the gold-plated version.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: Deputy McGrath has been deep in it-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: Deputy McGrath is the expert on desludging. He is a postgraduate and has a doctorate in desludging.

International Agreements: Motions (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the terms of the agreement between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United States of America on enhancing co-operation in preventing and combating serious crime which was signed at Dublin on 21 July 2011 and a copy of which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 10 January 2012. As Deputies will be aware, our citizens currently benefit from...

International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves Ireland's accession to the memorandum of understanding concerning the principles for the establishment and operation of a battle group to be made available to the European Union in the second half of the year 2012. In commending the motion to the House, I would like to briefly outline the background to Ireland's participation in the Austro-German battle...

International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy lives in an Alice in Wonderland world. It is extraordinary.

International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy is amazingly silent on the slaughter in Syria.

International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: He has had nothing to say about that for months.

International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: He is merely paranoid about Europe and America.

International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)

Alan Shatter: They are not mentioned on the Irish Anti-War Movement's website.