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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 264: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding will be provided for an operation to be carried out in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16. [3102/10]

Written Answers — Refugee Status: Refugee Status (26 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 364: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of unaccompanied children who have come here, aged six years and under, aged between seven years and 12 years, and aged between 13 years and 18 years, who have been allowed to remain here upon reaching 18 years. [3105/10]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (26 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 365: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the establishment of a new children's mental health coalition; if he will act on its recommendation that there should be a national framework for mental health assessment of children in detention, and at community level post release, including monitoring that the necessary follow-up...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (26 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 366: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the establishment of a new children's mental health coalition; if he will act on its recommendation to establish a diversion system for a child with a mental health problem away from the criminal justice system into specialised mental health services; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (26 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 587: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the arrangements made to create an independent trust to support the needs of survivors of institutional abuse for general education and welfare purposes; the funds to be furnished by religious orders and congregations for such trust; if he will publish, in draft form, the documentation required for the establishment of such a trust;...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (26 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 588: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the additional financial contributions to be made by religious orders and congregations to the Redress Board funds contributed to date in 2010 and which may be utilised in the future to make compensation payments to victims of institutional abuse; the proposals made by each religious order and congregation regarding both moneys and...

Civil Partnership Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: Like other Deputies, I welcome the publication of this Bill and the opportunity for a serious and considered debate on its provisions. Although I broadly support its intentions, I propose to address some of the issues that have given rise to public debate and controversy outside the House and to outline my concerns with the Bill as drafted. There is a myriad of legal anomalies derived by...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: To ratify the convention.

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: Is the Minister of State in a position to indicate to the House the timeframe for taking Committee Stage? I appreciate that he wants to consider certain amendments to the Bill. I am sure his office, like my office, has been contacted by those who are interested in this question. We should give people who are concerned about the Bill some idea of where we stand in this context.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the processing time for each individual social welfare office to deal with a claim for jobseeker's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1709/10]

Adoption Services. (19 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Government should publicly apologise for the indefensible and incompetent manner in which it has dealt with the issue of Vietnamese adoptions. It has neither acted in the best interests of children nor in the interests of prospective Irish adopters. The Minister of State with responsibility for children has serious questions to answer. For five years there was a bilateral adoption...

Adoption Services. (19 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: There is nothing to prevent the Minister negotiating and completing an agreement with the Vietnamese that is compliant with the Hague Convention on intercountry adoption. France, Spain, Italy and Canada, who have all ratified the Hague Convention, are continuing to facilitate adoptions from Vietnam and to ensure the necessary standards to protect the welfare of children are properly applied....

Adoption Services. (19 Jan 2010)

Alan Shatter: I will conclude with two more sentences. Substantial HSE social work resources have been wasted in the assessment of adoption applicants with a focus solely on Vietnamese adoptions instead of a focus on foreign adoption generally. Many of those left in limbo are now confronted with the prospect of their declarations of suitability and eligibility expiring and will have to apply to the...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Alan Shatter: Does the Taoiseach intend to introduce legislation in the new year to amend the redress board legislation to extend it to those who suffered barbaric cruelty in the Magdalen laundries? The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform now has irrefutable evidence that this State and the courts colluded in sending young women to what were then known as the Magdalen asylums. They ended up in...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Minister is required to explain how this will work.

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Alan Shatter: That is the Taoiseach's problem. He does not listen too much.

Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (16 Dec 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the remuneration payable to an ordinary judge of the District Court, the Circuit Court, the High Court, and the Supreme Court; the salary payable to the Presidents of the District Court, the Circuit Court and the High Court; the salary payable to the Chief Justice; and the salary payable to the Master of the High Court....

Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (16 Dec 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 192: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the salary payable to the chief registrar of the High Court; to individual High Court registrars; and to county registrars of the Circuit Court. [47449/09]

Social Welfare Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Alan Shatter: I support the motion, which was tabled by Deputy Naughten on behalf of Fine Gael. We have had an interesting day in the House. This debate is not simply about the issues which are the subject of the motion. It also concerns our value system, how we perceive what political parties should do in Government, how they perceive society, what role political parties should play and what...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2009)

Alan Shatter: I shall be brief. I wish to return to what the Minister of State said about consultations. He said there were consultations between the Judiciary and the Revenue Commissioners. Were these between the Chief Justice and the Revenue Commissioners? Who was engaged in the consultations? Will the Minister of State say which Minister talked directly to the Judiciary about the pension levy?...