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Order of Business (11 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Taoiseach should hang his head in shame at what is a total failure of political responsibility and accountability with regard to children at risk.

Order of Business (11 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: This report should be before the House next week for discussion.

Leaders' Questions. (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: You created the mess in the first place.

Leaders' Questions. (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: So much for the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, whining about-----

Leaders' Questions. (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: He is destroying-----

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: Would the Taoiseach accept that there is widespread concern that the Government is merely paying lip service to children's rights and child protection? Would he acknowledge that the concern is built on very solid foundations, given that not a single recommendation in the report of an all-party committee on child protection issues, which was published in autumn 2006, has been implemented?...

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is in the report.

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: If there was some substance to the second sentence, it would be interesting.

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: And the Minister's office, the Department of Health and Children and the Minister for Health and Children.

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: The statement is spin. Perhaps the Taoiseach will answer the question as opposed to just reading a prepared statement.

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: Can the Taoiseach answer the question?

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is about accountability to this House-----

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: -----and the failure of the Government consistently to protect children.

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: This is just spin.

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: This is just spin.

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: This is just spin.

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: I have a final supplementary question.

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: Will the Taoiseach not apologise to the House for the absolute incompetence and maladministration disclosed to have occurred at central Government level, not simply within the HSE, over a period of eight years with regard to child protection? Will he acknowledge that the promises now being made, to put in place arrangements to ensure that the Children First child protection guidelines are...

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: -----and what is stated - this is a question, Sir - in the Ombudsman for Children's report, that the high level group established to ensure the application uniformly across the country of the child protection guidelines did not meet on a single occasion in 2009? Perhaps the Taoiseach can tell the House if that group has yet met in 2010.

Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: If the Taoiseach had any concern about children, he would be asking these questions-----