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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: My Department is engaged on an ongoing building programme designed to modernise and enhance the training, operational and accommodation facilities available to members of the Defence Forces. Under the building programme there has been considerable capital investment at the Curragh Camp in recent years. Between 2008 and 2012 my Department has spend in excess of €10.7 million on major...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Travel (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The only body under the aegis of my Department is the Army Pensions Board. No overseas travel was undertaken by staff of this agency.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I thank the Senators for their contributions. We all agree that the repossession of any home should be a last resort. We have enacted the insolvency legislation which provides various mechanisms to assist people in financial difficulty, including the personal insolvency arrangement designed to resolve the debts of individuals or families with their creditors. These arrangements may involve...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: It has no concern about how light touch regulation helped to seduce tens of thousands of young couples into borrowing way beyond their means and the banks facilitated such borrowings. There was a complete and utter failure to maintain regulatory oversight of the banks. Then, when confronted with a banking disaster, it was paralysed and failed to address any of the issues the Government has...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The word “outrage” is becoming a seriously devalued currency in the hands of Fianna Fáil whose Members seem to be permanently outraged on a broad range of issues.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I did not interrupt either Senator. Instead, I listened quietly to their contributions.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: Senator Thomas Byrne said that before the Dunne judgment, the courts had no discretion not to order repossessions. That judgment was made in 2011. In 2009, when Fianna Fáil was in government, the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act was passed, but it contained no provision to prevent repossessions. The Senator has accepted that when Fianna Fáil introduced the legislation, it was...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: There was no provision such as is contained in this Bill that would allow the courts to adjourn proceedings where an application for repossession was made and to afford a period to an indebted individual at risk of losing his or her home to engage with a personal insolvency practitioner with the possibility of concluding a personal insolvency arrangement. Neither had Fianna Fáil enacted...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: This is not an issue that can be dealt with in isolation. It impacts on all taxpayers.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: It impacts on all individuals in financial difficulties and the functioning of the banking and financial system. Ultimately, these are issues that must be addressed in a comprehensive and coherent way, not simply by looking in isolation at one aspect of the problem which some speakers have sought to do. Like everyone else, I want to see as few people as possible confronted by repossession....

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I thank Senator Sean D. Barrett for raising an important issue. However, it is not one I can deal with in the Bill which deals with the issue of repossession and the protections which might be put in place to prevent it. There are certain circumstances in which the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 protects tenants where the ownership of a property changes. I want to reflect in this debate on...

An Bille um an Tríú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cúirt Achomhairc) 2013: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-third Amendment of the Constitution (Court of Appeal) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I thank the Deputies opposite for their support for this important Bill, which will effect the first major constitutional change to the structure of our courts system since 1937. If it is accepted by the people in the referendum, this proposal will improve our system of justice. It will ensure that appeals which are made after cases are determined, particularly in our High Court, can be...

Ráiteas faoi Eolas do Vótálaithe: Tairiscint - Statement for Information of Voters: Motion (17 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: Tairgim:GO ndéanfar an ráiteas atá leagtha amach sa Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Rún seo a fhorordú mar fhaisnéis do vótálaithe, de bhun alt 23 d'Acht an Reifrinn, 1994 (Uimh. 12 de 1994), i ndáil leis an togra chun an Bunreacht a leasú atá ar áireamh sa Bhille um an Tríú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I propose the House adjourns for five minutes to allow Deputy Mac Lochlainn an opportunity to get his papers.

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I think we have resolved the confusion at this stage. On Second Stage in this House last week, I explained that the provisions in Part 2 provide for a careful balancing of the need for privacy in child care and family law proceedings with the need for public access to important information on the operation of this very sensitive and difficult area of law. In that respect, Part 2 will retain...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: It is absolutely clear that the anonymity of individuals who are engaged in family law litigation, be it adoption, marital breakdown, civil partnership issues or issues relating to children, has to continue to be preserved. That remains part of our law. The provisions that will allow for members of the press to attend are designed and intended to ensure that individuals' anonymity is...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: No, it is the decision of the court. I refer the Deputy to section 5. There are various provisions in it. The new subsection (3A)(b) reads:Subject to paragraphs (c) and (d), where, in proceedings under a relevant enactment, a court is satisfied that it is necessary to do so--(i) in order to preserve the anonymity of a party to the proceedings or any child to whom the proceedings relate,...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: In the context of section 5 and the new subsection (3A), which will be inserted in section 40 of the Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004, I am satisfied that we have appropriately addressed all the issues to which Deputy Mac Lochlainn has referred. In particular, paragraph (c) fully and adequately addresses those issues.

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: When this important issue was raised in the Seanad, I lent my support to the view that this matter should be dealt with as speedily as possible. I pointed out, however, that the issue is complex and requires careful consideration to ensure any proposal in this regard correctly balances the constitutional right of the accused to due process with the privacy rights of the complainant. The...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 4:In page 26, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: "Interpretation (Part 7) 26. In this Part "Act of 1988" means the Bankruptcy Act 1988.".Amendment No. 4 is a drafting amendment recommended by the Office of the Attorney General. There is no requirement to include a reference to the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1961. Acceptance of the amendment will...