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Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: May I share time with Deputy Reilly this evening and Deputy Flanagan tomorrow?

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: Fine Gael fully supports the Labour Party Bill, which contains provisions that reflect issues detailed in the all-party motion passed by the Dáil on 12 June. Many of the issues addressed in the Bill are those that Fine Gael insisted be mentioned in the motion. They would not have been included had we not pursued the issue with the Government in the lead-in to the debate on the motion. As I...

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: It is an indictment of the Government and unacceptable that, despite promises made by the Taoiseach and Ministers following its publication, two all-party Dáil motions, the outpouring of hurt and anguish from victims of institutional child abuse and repetitive apologies from the church, State and religious organisations, nothing to date has visibly changed. Other than the Government meeting...

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Minister for Education and Science discussed the question of extending the age from 18 years to 21 years in respect of those who were victims in residential institutions, which is properly addressed in the Labour Party Bill. The Minister's defence for not addressing the issue is that there is a case on appeal awaited in the Supreme Court. The State lost this case in the High Court....

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: Deputy Quinn is right. There is no reason for the House to abdicate its role to the Supreme Court in this regard or for the Government to spend more taxpayers' money defending an issue that does not deserve defending. In the context of extra money being provided by religious organisations towards the overall compensation sum payable by the redress board, the Minister referred to discussions...

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (7 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the outcome of the visit of her Minister of State for Children to Vietnam to put in place a new agreement with regard to inter-country adoption; the arrangements agreed; when the licence of an agency (details supplied) will be renewed by the Vietnamese authorities; when new arrangements will come into operation; if she will clarify...

Written Answers — Civil Registrations: Civil Registrations (1 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive sought sanction from her to establish an on-line service to provide certificates of births, deaths and marriages; the position with regard to the HSE providing such service; the amount of expenditure incurred to date by it with regard to the provision of such service; the breakdown of such expenditure;...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (1 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the non-availability of a general practitioner service for medical holders in an area (details supplied) in County Dublin; if she will address the deficit of medical services in this area to patients by facilitating the doctor [i]in situ[/i] with their application to be approved on the general medical card...

Hospital Accommodation. (1 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether it is satisfactory that a patient suffering from cystic fibrosis, in need of medical care due to their condition, was admitted to St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, on 23 June 2009 and placed in a small room with five other patients all suffering chronic illness; if her attention has been drawn to the...

Hospital Accommodation. (1 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: Is the Minister aware that the young man who is the subject of this question and who is 23 years of old and suffering from cystic fibrosis was admitted to a ward with five chronically ill elderly patients? Will she acknowledge that, because of the risk of cross-infection, it is an entirely inappropriate way in which to treat any cystic fibrosis patient who comes into hospital? Will she...

Hospital Accommodation. (1 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: When will the long promised new facility at St. Vincent's hospital go to tender? When will construction start because the date has been a moveable feast? In January 2008, the Minister informed the House it would be open by 2010 but in the recent debate in this House in April, she said 2011. Will she clarify when it will go to tender and when construction will start? It is my information...

Hospital Accommodation. (1 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: Does "shortly" mean July or next October?

Hospital Accommodation. (1 Jul 2009)

Alan Shatter: For the Minister's information, it is St. Paul's ward and not St. Christopher's ward.

Commissions of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: I find it extraordinary, Sir, that the same battles have to be fought with regularity in this House and issues on which we should be able to agree across the Chamber become issues of conflict and debate, and which are avoided by double speak and ministerial tactics. If we learned nothing else from the Ryan commission report, the very least we should have learned was that those who were...

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: What does this have to do with the motion?

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: What does this have to do with the motion on the closure of that ward?

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: Outrageous nonsense.

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: The motion has nothing to do with that.

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: The here and now is very important to children in need of medical care.

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: I wish to share time with Deputy James Reilly.