Results 17,461-17,480 of 19,162 for speaker:Alan Shatter
- Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: You can keep me in line, a Cheann Comhairle. In terms of dealing with issues of sexual offences and strict liability, on which Fine Gael disagreed with other members of the committee, we produced a proposal to reinstate the concept of strict liability to protect young people from sexual predators and sought constitutional change. The other members of the committee recommended some...
- Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: -----on the previous occasion when we addressed the issue there was not a Green Party Minister, neither a Minister of State nor a Minister, in the House. All we heard on the issue was the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley on the publication of the Murphy commission report, feeling the need to get to his name in The Irish Times, announcing some sort...
- Order of Business. (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: Let us have it then.
- Order of Business. (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: Let us have it this year.
- Order of Business. (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: They have not been employed yet.
- Order of Business. (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: Not a single additional social worker has been appointed.
- Order of Business. (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: Will we have the referendum this year?
- Order of Business. (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: On a point of order, how many more children must die because they have been failed by the child protection services?
- Order of Business. (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: The Minister of State told us the number was 23, but he now knows that it is more than 23 in the past decade. An additional young man should still be alive today. All we get is public relations comment.
- Child Care Services (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent report of the Ombudsman for Children based on an investigation on the implementation of Children First: National Guidelines for the Protection and Welfare of Children; if she will detail the actions that she has taken to protect children at risk; her future plans in this regard; and if she will make a statement...
- Child Care Services (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: Does the Minister of State not regard it as slightly odd, both in this House and in a statement he issued on the publication of the ombudsman's report, to welcome the publication of a report which makes two findings of maladministration or unsound administration against the Department in the area of child protection and nine findings of maladministration or unsound administration against the...
- Child Care Services (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: I would certainly like to hear the Minister of State's response to the two questions raised. Is he not ashamed of a report - which he describes as a good report - that documents total incompetence by the Health Service Executive and the Department in ensuring the application across the State of the Children First guidelines? Is he not ashamed that the lessons that were supposed to have been...
- Child Care Services (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: Is the Minister of State not ashamed that a failure of the Health Service Executive to provide proper care to this young man has contributed to his tragic death? Can he tell this House truthfully that everything possible has been done by the Government to ensure the application of the Children First guidelines since 1999? Will he acknowledge that his party in government has failed to a...
- Child Care Services (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: This is 2010. The guidelines introduced in 1999 have not yet been implemented.
- Child Care Services (18 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: Are the Minister of State and his colleagues not ashamed at the number of children who have died in the past ten years because of a failure to implement the Children First guidelines?
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (13 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is currently a waiting list at St James Hospital, Dublin, for funding in respect of a procedure to replace used batteries in neurostimlator systems implanted in patients to provide relief from chronic pain; if she will provide funding for the necessary procedure to be carried out...
- Written Answers — Prisoner Complaints Procedures: Prisoner Complaints Procedures (13 May 2010)
Alan Shatter: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will investigate the circumstances surrounding the arrest of a person (details supplied) and who, it is alleged, suffered injuries during their arrest on 18 April 2010; if he will ensure that this person is not deported from the State until such investigation is completed; and if he will make a statement on the...
- 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.