Results 18,761-18,780 of 19,162 for speaker:Alan Shatter

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: I have before me the statement issued by the Minister of State with responsibility for children following the publication of the Ferns Report. He said the review of the guidelines would be complete by December 2007. Has that review been completed yet? Will it be published? When will it be put in the Oireachtas Library and be available for a debate in this House? Does the Government...

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——will be repeated in ten years' time. We must look back at what is happening now.

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: Will that review be published? Is there an outcome to the review? Is it a private chat between the Department with responsibility for children and the Health Service Executive?

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: You are the Tánaiste and this is an important issue.

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: Children have died in this country as a consequence of child abuse.

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: The Ferns Report made substantial recommendations. We are entitled to know five months later if those guidelines will be given statutory force and——

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——if the review will be published.

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: Is there any change to the review?

Order of Business (21 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: May I return to the issue I raised previously in a way that is in order? The poster campaign being run on older people is grossly offensive to a large number of people. If a similar campaign were run——

Order of Business (21 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: If the Ceann Comhairle bears with me, I promise I will be in order. If a similar campaign were run with regard to a racial or religious group, or individuals of a particular sexual orientation, there would be a national outcry. Has the Taoiseach had an opportunity to consider the poster campaign? If he does not realise its implications, he should request the Minister for Justice, Equality...

Order of Business (21 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: I ask the Taoiseach and the Minister to withdraw this campaign.

Order of Business (21 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: It is an entirely——

Order of Business (21 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: It is entirely unacceptable targeting of older people based——

Order of Business (21 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——on misconceived advice and very poor judgment. It should be withdrawn and——

Order of Business (21 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——taxpayers' money should not be wasted on it.

Order of Business (21 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: One will have seen major effects during a week designed to promote the elderly in a positive, rather than a negative, light among the people.

Order of Business (21 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: It is extraordinary that three State bodies——

Order of Business (21 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——are portraying older people in a grossly negative manner——

Order of Business (21 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——and in an insulting manner——

Order of Business (21 May 2008)

Alan Shatter: ——during the course of what is meant to be a week to promote older peoples' rights.