Results 181-200 of 19,162 for speaker:Alan Shatter
- 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: 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...
- Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (18 Dec 2007)
Alan Shatter: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action the Government proposes taking to implement the recommendation contained in the report published on 11 December 2007 into services provided by the Brothers of Charity in Galway and the physical and sexual abuse of intellectually disabled children in the period 1965 to 1998 in institutions run by the Brothers; the reason...
- Written Answers — Inquiry into Child Abuse: Inquiry into Child Abuse (18 Dec 2007)
Alan Shatter: Question 441: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action the Government proposes taking to implement the recommendation contained in the report published on 11 December 2007 into services provided by the Brothers of Charity in Galway and the physical and sexual abuse of intellectually disabled children in the period 1965 to 1998 in institutions run by the Brothers; the reason...
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alan Shatter: He did not have much choice.
- Written Answers — Civil Registration Act: Civil Registration Act (19 Dec 2007)
Alan Shatter: Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Service Executive is obstructing implementation of the Civil Registration Act 2004 in so far as it has rendered it impossible for a couple to celebrate a civil marriage ceremony anywhere in Dublin, Kildare or Wicklow other than in a registry office in violation of the...
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: Does the Minister have any view on the capital funds spent on the tribunal?
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: Will the Minister for Defence, Deputy O'Dea, deliver the same speech or something qualitatively different?
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: Does the Minister have any concerns with regard to the different stories told to the tribunal?
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: What relevance has this to the Taoiseach's conduct or the conduct of members of the Cabinet attacking the tribunal for which the Minister is responsible?
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: The Green Party is emasculated.
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: This has to be the worst speech ever presented in the House.
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: The Minister, Deputy O'Dea, has driven the Minister, Deputy Gormley, from the House.
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: He is afraid to hear what Willie will say.
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: That is pathetic.
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: On a point of orderââ
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: On a point of orderââ
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: It is a tradition in this House that if someone has an interest in a matter, they should make a declaration of interest. Given that the newspaper to which the Minister is referring apparently pays him a regular wage for writing articles, the least he should do is identify it and make a declaration of interest.
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: Does the Minister get an extra bonus for advertising the newspaper in this House?
- Health Services. (31 Jan 2008)
Alan Shatter: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the new services she proposes to put in place to provide for adults and children suffering from cystic fibrosis; and if she will launch a public and ongoing advertising campaign to encourage the public to carry organ donor cards to facilitate the greater availability of organs for heart and lung transplant operations. [2890/08]