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Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Action plans to make savings in public expenditure and to reform the public service are being completed by Departments. These should not be secret documents.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Members of the House should have this information made available to them so that choices can be made as to the way forward.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: On the one side we have the Taoiseach and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government looking for consensus-----

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: -----but on the other side crucial information is not being made available or offered to Members of this House.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is a farce of a procedure.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: There is a pretence of seeking to bring about a consensus-----

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: -----in circumstances in which Members of this House are not being provided with the type of information-----

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: -----that should be provided in any parliament in any country.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is outrageous that we have this type of approach. Either the Government is serious in genuinely trying to make information available or it is not.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Sinn Féin is as economically illiterate as the Government-----

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Alan Shatter: ---- so they should both get together.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: They all live in an economic fantasy land.

Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (13 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the average waiting time for the processing of drug payment scheme refunds is approximately nine months; the reason the Dublin health board areas have one full-time member of staff or two part-time members of staff dealing with all applications for refunds; if her attention has been drawn to the consequential negative...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (13 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 193: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons deported from the State in each of the past five years; the dates on which each deportation took place and the number of persons deported on those dates; the flight arrangements in each case in the context of the airline involved; the travel agency, if any, that made arrangements for the flights; in respect of...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (13 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of occasions in each of the past five years in which his Department or the Garda Síochána placed an advertisement seeking tenders from travel agencies or other persons for making necessary arrangements for the deportation from this State of illegal migrants; and to detail the current arrangements in place with regard...

Written Answers — Prisoner Releases: Prisoner Releases (13 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 24 of 7 October 2010 (details supplied) if he will provide the date to which this figure relates [36831/10]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (12 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action he will take within the European Union and in the United Nations following publication by Amnesty International Ireland of its report From Protest to Prison: Iran One Year after the Election; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35744/10]

Written Answers — Middle East Peace Process: Middle East Peace Process (12 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs with regard to the speech delivered by him on Monday, 27 September 2010 at the 65th session of the UN General Assembly the reasons in his reference to the Middle East peace process and to Gaza no reference of any nature whatsoever is made by him to the strident opposition of Hamas and other Palestinian groups to continuing peace talks...

Written Answers — Institutional Child Abuse: Institutional Child Abuse (12 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the new provision to be made for the victims of institutional abuse as a consequence of the completion of the audit of the assets of religious orders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35801/10]

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (12 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 352: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applications for citizenship by naturalisation processed by his Department between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010; the number of applications that were approved; the number refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35940/10]