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Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: If need be, Members on this side of the House are quite prepared to sit into the small hours of the morning. We did so this day last week and, as a consequence of that discussion, the Minister, who was denying the need to make amendments on a number of issues, including with regard to special purpose vehicles, has now agreed that there is a need to address some of the issues raised on that...

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: This House is not a rubber stamp for the Government. We are elected to this House to take responsibility by the electorate. The Government is guillotining a measure that is seriously defective. It has had to be amended on every Stage of its passage.

National Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: On this amendment and the Minister's dealing with the social aspects, there is an issue to which many Members of the House may have given some thought. It has been dealt with or referred to earlier in some of the debates on the legislation but it is important to raise it here and to get a steer on how NAMA intends to approach it. What I have in mind is the vast number of unfinished housing...

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to require the Health Service Executive to publish the report of the investigation into the death of a person (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Minister of State with responsibility for children informed a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children on 6 October...

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to require the Health Service Executive to publish the report of the investigation into the death of a person (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Minister of State with responsibility for children informed a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children on 6 October...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in excess of 150 children are awaiting heart surgery at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin and the delay in such surgery is placing many of these children at serious risk and that many of these children are suffering a diminished quality of life; the action she...

Written Answers — Use of Sun Beds: Use of Sun Beds (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her policy regarding the use of sun beds; the legislation that she proposes to introduce with regard to the usage of sun beds; and the timeframe involved. [30753/09]

Written Answers — Child Protection: Child Protection (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will order an inquiry into the procedures followed by the Health Service Executive and the Gardaí in relation to a child (details supplied) in County Galway; if correspondence has been entered into by her with the HSE in respect of this matter; and if so, the replies received. [39229/09]

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reviews which were undertaken by the joint working group established under part V of the agreement on mutual co-operation concerning adoption between Ireland and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam regarding the provision of humanitarian financial assistance; the evaluation which was undertaken of such assistance provided; when such...

Health Services. (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: On that basis it will be another ten years until we see the legislation.

Inter-Country Adoptions. (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the contacts made with the Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam in the course of his visit to Ireland on 22 and 23 October 2009 to discuss the conclusion of a new bilateral agreement between Ireland and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with regard to inter-country adoptions; the position and the progress made during the course of such...

Inter-Country Adoptions. (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Is the Minster of State aware he originally told the House that the ISS report would be published before the end of October after which some form of public debate would be held? Will he explain why he is now giving a November date? How soon will it be published? What is the Minister of State's thinking with regard to a new bilateral agreement? He said there was an exchange between himself...

Inter-Country Adoptions. (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Minister said facts disclosed in the ISS report, which is in draft form, are a cause for concern. In so far as those facts relate to the Vietnamese adoption process, why were none of them identified by the Irish Government long ago? Under the bilateral agreement which concluded on 1 May 2009, joint working groups were to be established to monitor inter-country adoptions between Ireland...

Inter-Country Adoptions. (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Why did the joint working groups not function?

Inter-Country Adoptions. (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: On a point of order, I asked the Minister of State a question about why the joint working groups did not function.

Inter-Country Adoptions. (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: I presume the Minister of State would like to reply to that question.

Inter-Country Adoptions. (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: If the Minister of State does not reply to that question-----

Inter-Country Adoptions. (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: It was grossly negligent of the Government to enter into a bilateral agreement and not ensure that the joint working groups put in place to ensure no difficulties arose over a five year period-----

Inter-Country Adoptions. (4 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: -----did not function.