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

Alan Shatter: Following on from the last General Service Recruitment campaign in 2012 a total of 539 General Service Recruits were enlisted in the Permanent Defence Force, of which 418 were enlisted in the Army, and 121 in the Naval Service. I am advised by the Military Authorities that the strength of the Permanent Defence Force, at 30 June 2013, the latest date for which details are available, was 9,093...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Legal Costs (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Chief State Solicitors Office, Attorney General’s Office and the State Claims Agency deal with all legal matters on behalf of the Department. As such it would seldom arise that the Department procures the services of external solicitors and barristers directly. The following table only includes costs incurred by the Department in obtaining legal advices directly and does not...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Ambulance Service Provision (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: There are no plans to expand the role of the Air Corps in the provision of Air Ambulance services. In 2005, the Department of Defence and the Department of Health completed a Service Level Agreement (SLA) which formalised arrangements for the provision of an inter hospital air ambulance service by the Air Corps. This SLA was renewed in October, 2011. In addition to the inter-hospital...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Ambulance Service Provision (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: From the commencement of the pilot Emergency Aeromedical Support (EAS) service on 4 June 2012 there were 299 EAS missions completed by the Air Corps up to 30 June 2013. These included cases of segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), trauma, medical, pediatric and other time-critical cases, as tasked by the HSE’s National Aero-Medical Coordination Centre. To date, STEMI and...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (16 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 953 to 955, inclusive, together. A contract was signed in October 2010, with Babcock Marine, part of the Babcock International Group, in the United Kingdom for the provision of two new offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) for the Naval Service. The cost of the two new ships is €108m, exclusive of VAT. In addition, the cost of providing a weapons system...

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.

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am very conscious that when a court closes in a constituency it is a cause of concern to Members of this House. I assure Members that I am informed by the Courts Service that it genuinely engages in consultation with all interests, both the legal profession, the Garda and other relevant bodies across the board in particular towns that might be affected by court closures and it looks at the...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I understand it will be next week.

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The suggestion was made that the increase in jurisdiction limits should await the enactment of the Legal Services Regulation Bill. The latter is only one of the measures being taken to ensure the modernisation of the legal professions and a more transparent and competitive legals costs regime. There is no justification for linking implementation of the new regulatory and legal costs...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: As I understand it I have not less than 15 minutes. It would not be possible to respond to all of the issues within 15 minutes. Deputies Collins, Mac Lochlainn and Murphy raised the possible effect on judges and court offices of the increased jurisdiction of the Circuit and District Courts. I am also aware similar statements have been made by bodies such as the Law Society, the chairman...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I thank all of the Deputies who contributed to the debate on this Bill today and the last day. This is an important Bill which provides for much needed reform across a number of different and important areas of the law. As regards the proposed changes to the in camera rule to which so many Deputies made reference, what I am providing for in this Bill is a careful balancing of the need for...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: Amendment No. 2 seeks to rewrite provisions in the Personal Insolvency Act, which is not the purpose of this Bill. The House should be aware that the protection to mortgage proposed by this Bill is to require the court to allow for a personal insolvency regime to be considered where, for example, none previously had been attempted, as with the requirement now in bankruptcy petitions, not...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: This is a technical amendment in which I seek to address a particular issue raised in submissions to the Department. It was submitted the possibility existed that proceedings against the estate of a deceased person, which had been issued prior to the Dunne judgment but had not been determined and were adjourned with liberty to re-enter pending the outcome of the appeal of that case would not...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: We dealt with this at length previously in the context of Second Stage. This is the section that allows the courts, where an application is made for repossession, to adjourn the proceedings so that the possibility of an individual entering into a personal insolvency arrangement can be looked at. This is a radical change to the law. There was no connectivity in the past between the court...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: If the Deputy, as he always does in this House, is after the usual predictable, easy headline, I cannot sit here while he maligns the members of the current Judiciary, speaks in a manner that makes his accusations readily identifiable with an individual member of the Judiciary, and uses this House to damage the reputation of any member of the Judiciary who cannot respond. The Deputy knows...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: That is outrageous.

An Bille um an Tríú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cúirt Achomhairc) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-third Amendment of the Constitution (Court of Appeal) Bill 2013: Second Stage (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: Next week.

An Bille um an Tríú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cúirt Achomhairc) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-third Amendment of the Constitution (Court of Appeal) Bill 2013: Second Stage (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I thank all Members who spoke on the Bill for their supportive comments. For many years it has been my view that we should have a court of appeal and that we need constitutional change. The work of the working group chaired by Chief Justice Denham substantially laid the foundations for the implementation of this change. It was a commitment in the programme for Government that we would hold...

An Bille um an Tríú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cúirt Achomhairc) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-third Amendment of the Constitution (Court of Appeal) Bill 2013: Second Stage (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille an Dara hUair anois." I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to present the Thirty-third Amendment of the Constitution (Court of Appeal) Bill 2013 to the House. This Bill brings us a further step along the road towards the establishment of a court of appeal which has long been called for and was explicitly provided for in the...