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Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is unacceptable.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is different from the issue that this House dealt with yesterday. It is unacceptable.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: Is this a further example of Green Party Dáil reform? They are muzzled.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: We need a political confession box.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Deputies can get the issues off their chest.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: On a point of order, perhaps the Tánaiste might explain to us the difference between Government bungling and Government plundering.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: If this is a circus, the Tánaiste is the ringmaster. We will not ask who the clowns are.

Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: I welcome the Bill published by Deputy Pat Rabbitte on behalf of the Labour Party, which confers express powers on the Houses of the Oireachtas to conduct inquiries. The Bill provides a foundation for very important discussion and debate on the function of this House, the standing of the constitutional powers conferred on it and issues of accountability which are of central concern to many...

Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: Indeed, the ethos in the British Parliament is that if one is a perjurer and a Minister, one does resign. It is different from the ethos we have in this House, which is to batten down the hatches, protect one's position and not to regard one's self as accountable. Is it any wonder this Government not only is opposed to the Labour Party Bill, but has no appetite for a constitutional...

Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy is in possession and the Minister is possessed.

Deportation Orders. (11 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: I raised the plight of the child in question in a parliamentary question to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on 10 December 2009. On 16 August 2009, the Nigerian mother of this child was arrested in Dublin Airport for evading a deportation order. She was deported on 1 September. Her four-year-old son, who was born in the State, was temporarily placed in care on 16 August,...

Deportation Orders. (11 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: That is what should not have happened, and the District Court reached that decision based on the child's welfare.

Deportation Orders. (11 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: The court obviously agreed with her that it was not in the child's interests.

Deportation Orders. (11 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: The court made that decision.

Deportation Orders. (11 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: The District Court will not allow the child go back to Nigeria.

Deportation Orders. (11 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: The District Court will not allow the child travel to Nigeria.

Deportation Orders. (11 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: The District Court judge does not either.

Deportation Orders. (11 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: The child is just a pawn in all of this.

Deportation Orders. (11 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Minister is pre-judging the consideration he alleges his officials are giving to this. The Minister's conclusion is that the child stays in care-----

Deportation Orders. (11 Feb 2010)

Alan Shatter: -----indefinitely because-----