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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: I will not speak again at great length. I do not accept what the Minister stated about the Attorney General's advice. I accept the Attorney General would have told the Government that advice given was privileged. It is privileged in that the Government is the Attorney General's client. However, it is open to the Government to decide to make this advice available. No law states one cannot...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: My objection to co-location is that we are finally copper-fastening and institutionalising, by legislative sanction, a two-tier health service. The Minister is likely to respond by telling us that we have private beds within our public hospitals. That has been part of the tradition of this country for many years. However, we are now going to have a private hospital and a public hospital on...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: I wish to share time with Deputies Olivia Mitchell and Andrew Doyle. It is appropriate, if not ironic, that on this, the second last day of the Dáil session before Christmas, we are confronted with this Bill. It is a measure to tidy up some of the mess created by the Government in its former guise prior to the last election, as well as to tidy up a mess in terms of an issue for which the...

Written Answers — Court Procedures: Court Procedures (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the consideration given by him to revise family law to create an in-court mediation service to facilitate the early resolution of family law disputes and in particular disputes relating to the guardianship, custody, upbringing of and access to children. [34610/07]

Written Answers — Enforcement of Court Orders: Enforcement of Court Orders (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the consideration given to date to implementing arrangements between this State, the United Kingdom and other European Union member states for the reciprocal enforcement of pension adjustment orders made in matrimonial proceedings; if his attention had been drawn to the fact that considerable difficulties can arise as a...

Family Law. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: When will the proposed service begin? If it is to start in Dublin, will it only apply to the three Circuit Courts dealing with family law in Dublin? Guardianship and custody disputes relating to children are dealt with in the District Court to a greater extent than in the Circuit Court. Care proceedings relating to children are dealt with exclusively in the District Court. For years...

Family Law. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: They seem to be beyond the Government in general.

Family Law. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: This is the second pilot project.

Family Law. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: The last project that lasted for one year crashed in 2003. Will the Minister of State admit that the new proposal is a half-baked grossly inadequate scheme thrown together in desperation to make a pretence of a response to Carol Coulter's report? This area needs radical reform with the replacement of the current fragmented court structures with a dedicated system of family courts with proper...

Family Law. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: The Minister of State told us the previous scheme ran for a year and it collapsed.

Family Law. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: The welfare of children does not matter then.

Family Law. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: What about child psychiatrists?

Family Law. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: It is another half-baked and pathetic attempt to address the problem.

Family Law. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Why are the District Courts being left out?

Garda Operations. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: We all have that problem.

Garda Operations. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: It is unusual to see a Minister of State being disorderly while this side of the House is orderly. I am rapidly reaching the conclusion that the Government is employing more pilots than Ryanair.

Garda Operations. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: The Minister of State's assurances are somewhat less than comforting. The failure to implement these warrants indicates that the Government does not have its finger on the pulse and has lost its way in implementing court judgments. A radical change is required to prevent the waste of Garda time in serving such warrants. Apart from the pilot project the Minister of State mentioned, have any...

Garda Complaints Procedures. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Does the Minister of State know how many cases have been commenced and so must be completed by the Garda Complaints Board? Has he concerns about the capacity of the board to conduct investigations in view of the evidence given by the chairman of that board to the Morris tribunal and the inadequacies of the resources available to the board to investigate complaints in a thorough fashion?

Garda Complaints Procedures. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: It took ten years for the Government to realise that.

Garda Complaints Procedures. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: How many cases are there where investigations are under way or have taken place and will thus remain with the Garda Complaints Board?