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Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (24 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedures that are in place to effect the removal of a parent and their children from the jurisdiction in situations where the children are in the care of the Health Service Executive and the parent is the subject of a Deportation Order and in cases where children have been removed from the jurisdiction in such...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (24 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 206: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the plans of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the redevelopment of an estate (details supplied) and the sanction required by the council and the moneys necessary to progress the proposal; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that due to the deteriorating condition of...

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the report relating to the abuse of children (details supplied) and the failure of our child protection services to intervene appropriately and promptly to protect the welfare of the children will be published; the action taken following the publication of the report into the death of Kelly Fitzgerald in 1996 to attempt to ensure...

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. As he is aware, the first part of the question relates to the barbaric abuse, both physical and sexual, perpetrated on children in County Roscommon, which resulted in the mother of children being convicted in the courts in January 2009. The father involved was convicted only recently and sentencing is due on Friday. Originally, it was promised...

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: Will the Minister of State confirm that in the context of this report's publication, the primary issue must be the best interests of children, to ensure that we learn from what went wrong, to ensure that whatever action that possibly can be taken is taken to prevent a recurrence of the failures of this health board, which now is known to have failed children abysmally twice? In addition,...

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: I am referring specifically to this publication.

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Minister of State had that report for 12 months. He is hiding behind the unwillingness of the HSE-----

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: -----and its incapacity to communicate with a mother who had failed her children.

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Minister headed into an issue-----

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: On a point of information-----

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: On a point of order, I specifically raised these issues only in the context of the Roscommon case that is the subject matter of this question. The Minister of State has now strayed into an entirely different case and has made an accusation that I am entitled to address.

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: I appreciate that. Is the Minister of State seriously suggesting, in the context of the issue he now has raised, that it was in the best interests of children generally in this State or in the interests of a functioning child care and protection service, that an eight-year old report should languish unpublished in his Department and on the shelves of the HSE for 12 months? It was a damning...

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: Covering up reports of this nature only suits the HSE or the health boards who are failing children or parents who have abused children.

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: However, the Government has not published any of these reports.

Written Answers — Legal Services: Legal Services (3 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details on Health Service Executive plans to set up its own law office while at the same time outsourcing its legal services needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10538/10]

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: -----into children who died in care.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: "Are being". We heard the HSE this morning. "Are being" could be in the next decade.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: We preserved their right to privacy. The Minister of State referred to the family's name on RTE's "News at One" yesterday and then had the gall to make accusations against me.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: At no stage did we mention names.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Minister of State stumbled onto the 1 o'clock news having concealed the report for a year.