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Leaders' Questions (13 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: Let him explain what happened in the Kelly Fitzgerald report.

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: Can the Taoiseach identify any report that was published with recommendations blacked out, seven recommendations?

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: It is about the lives of children. How many more children are going to die due to the incompetence of this Government?

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: This is nonsense. What it is needed is not being provided-----

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that the life long monthly payments received by the 32 acknowledged thalidomide survivors will continue to be paid in full and that it will not be affected by the withdrawal of the Christmas bonus which has always formed part of the annual sum of compensation received; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (19 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 430: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in his sanctioning the construction of a permanent school to replace the prefabricated buildings out of which a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18 operates; if he will confirm that his Department received in January 2009 all required enrolment and local demographic data as requested by him; the reason no...

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: Fianna Fáil has been in government for more than 20 years.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Ahern, is the only man smart in costing the taxpayer money.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: I will deal with the Minister, Deputy Ahern, later.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: He is talking about finance and value for money.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: It threw away money it got from a local authority.

Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: The report that will be officially published at 2.30 p.m. by the Ryan commission, which started as the Laffoy commission, will pierce through the culture of secrecy which for decades has covered up the extent of abuse, both physical and sexual, of young people in institutions throughout the State. In this context, I join with other Deputies in asking for time to be set aside next week to...

Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: I will come to two reports that should be published.

Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: Hundreds of children are reported to be at risk whose cases have not been assigned to social workers and files are gathering dust on shelves in offices throughout the HSE about which nothing has been done for three years. What is the Government doing to obtain from the HSE the reports on our child protection services covering the years 2007 and 2008? The reports should have been published...

Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: -----not part of the solution.

Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Monageer report was with the Government for six months before it was published. It should have been possible to go back and check procedures. The procedure now proposed by Fine Gael is the procedure used in 1996 to publish the report into the tragic death of Kelly Fitzgerald. The legal advice obtained never addresses this issue. On the very day we are piercing the veil of secrecy over...

Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: -----to whom no social worker has been assigned.

Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: An apology given by a future Taoiseach in seven or eight years for the damage done to those children would be meaningless too.

Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: Let us not deal with hypocrisies on the day this report is published.

Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Alan Shatter: This Government is utterly failing in its charge of the child protection services. On the day this report is published, it should hang its head in shame.