Results 19,001-19,020 of 19,162 for speaker:Alan Shatter

Garda Complaints Procedures. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: How many were transferred from the Garda Complaints Board to the ombudsman commission?

Garda Complaints Procedures. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: I am sorry to interrupt the Minister of State but the question regarded two types of complaints. These include the complaints which went to the Garda Complaints Board in respect of which no investigations had been commenced and which are now transferred to the Garda Ombudsman Commission. I am asking how many such complaints have been so transferred. The second regards those retained by the...

Garda Complaints Procedures. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: This quango has had a very chequered and unfortunately incompetent history. What is to come of the staff currently attached to the Garda Complaints Board? When the board has completed its work, is there a plan as to what will happen to the staff?

Garda Complaints Procedures. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: It depends on the contractual terms.

Health Service Inquiries. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for affording me the opportunity to raise the matter. All children are vulnerable but particular safeguards are required for children with intellectual disability. The report I wish to raise is that of Dr. Kevin McCoy on the Western Health Board inquiry into the Brothers of Charity services in Galway, and it is disturbing for a whole series of reasons. One...

Health Service Inquiries. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Does the Minister of State know why the inquiry team resigned?

Crime Prevention. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Is the Minister seriously suggesting that farmers are responsible for gun drug crime in Dublin——

Family Law. (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the consideration given by him to revise family law to create a new court family and assessment service to assist the courts in determining family law proceedings and in particular issues relating to the guardianship, custody and upbringing of children and in determining care proceedings relating to children. [34646/07]

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether it is essential that the transition supports project funded by the European Social Fund and her Department continues to operate in 2008 to co-ordinate and intricate services to separated children seeking asylum and minors to enable them to participate in education to help prepare them for adult life here or in...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Will the Taoiseach acknowledge it is unacceptable for it to have taken eight years to produce a report on serious allegations, now established, of physical and sexual abuse of children with disabilities in the Galway area? Will he indicate whether he intends to implement the recommendations contained in the report? What additional legislation will be brought forward to ensure that children...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: This is an important issue.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Today I tabled a private notice question on the report which has taken eight years to come out of the system. It is outrageous it has taken this long.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Sir, unless additional legal protections are put in place——

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: ——both children and adults with disabilities——

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: ——and who are the victims of physical and sexual abuse will not be adequately protected in the criminal law. There is a urgent need for legislation. The report has highlighted the institutional failures——

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: ——and ultimately the HSE's abysmal failure to ensure it was published in reasonable time.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: I want to see the legislation before the House as a priority.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Has the Taoiseach nothing to offer?

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: It has taken eight years to produce the report.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: It regards substantial allegations that have been established.