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Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: It would be specific to banks.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: This is the Taoiseach's fifth year presiding over a disastrous budget. He had four as Minister for Finance.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: The country is now committed to the Taoiseach's level.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: The Taoiseach scared the backbenchers as well as the elderly.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: The Taoiseach has never got any of his figures right in any budget he brought before this House.

Medical Cards: Motion (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: I rise in support of this motion. This was a callous and cold-hearted decision made by a totally incompetent Government. It was a decision applauded by every Member on the Government side of the House. They applauded the mugging of pensioners and the targeting of the elderly by the Government under the guise of saving funds.

Medical Cards: Motion (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: They applauded a decision that created panic and stress in many people throughout the country who were under the belief that they had a right to universal health care, protected by the Government.

Medical Cards: Motion (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: They understood and believed that when Fianna Fáil decided to provide universal health care to the over 70s it was based on some principle. What they did not realise is that the only principle to which Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats espoused in 2001 was how to get elected as rapidly as possible and how to fool as many people as possible. There was no principled commitment to...

Medical Cards: Motion (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Will we have real politics from the Green Party? Will it vote with Fine Gael to defeat this measure or will it continue to betray its commitment, so clearly announced in the last election, to universal health care by voting to deprive the over 70s of a provision already in force at the time when the Green Party entered Government?

Medical Cards: Motion (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Is the Deputy suggesting that those who apply for medical cards are not patriotic?

Medical Cards: Motion (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: It is extraordinary arrogance to refer to one's colleagues as throwing rattles out of their prams.

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the State agencies within her Department's remit under review; when same will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34836/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 272: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that waiting lists have escalated to over a year for male circumcisions in a number of hospitals, that the hospitals which currently have a waiting list of more than twelve months include the Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin, Waterford Regional Hospital, Kerry General...

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (21 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 273: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the investigation into the delay in publishing the McCoy Report (details supplied) has been completed; the reason for the delay in publishing the report relating to the investigation which was due to be completed and published by 8 July 2008; and when the report will be made available. [35607/08]

Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: I heard with a mixture of interest and dismay the speech delivered earlier today by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Dermot Ahern, on this important issue. My only conclusion is that the Minister is a political gurrier unfit to hold ministerial office. He used an important report, the final report published by Mr. Justice Morris——

Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: I will not. The speech delivered by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in the House this morning and the attack by him on a Member of this House and a former Member was a disgrace——

Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: To make that his main offering on the Morris report——

Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——shows the level of political stupidity to which the Minister can descend. It was an outrageous misuse of this House to attack, in particular, someone who is no longer a Member, which is, so far as I am aware, contrary to the rules of the House.

Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: In addressing the issues arising from the Morris tribunal report and in referring to earlier reports, the Minister made the centrepiece of his presentation an attack on my colleague, Mr. Jim Higgins, MEP, who was formerly a Member of this House and was not here to answer for himself, and on Deputy Howlin, who is well able to speak for himself but who deserves also to be defended. It was Mr....

Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: In my view, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Dermot Ahern, is not only unfit to hold the office he holds, but he should resign.