Results 61-80 of 19,162 for speaker:Alan Shatter

Order of Business (11 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: In the context of that, is the Tánaiste not aware that this report says there are over 100 children under 12 years of age inappropriately living in residential care due to the negligence and failure of the management within the HSE? That is a serious issue and discussion of the possible constitutional amendments relating to children's rights should not distract from the Government's basic...

Order of Business (11 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: A committee on foreign affairs has not yet been established. In the absence of such a forum, will the Tánaiste indicate if there is a possibility of a debate on the recent events in Myanmar and the failure of the UN to issue an appropriate declaration?

Order of Business (11 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: There are concerns that hundreds, if not thousands, of monks have either been massacred or tortured in Myanmar. The response from Europe has been grossly inadequate. There is a need for a united European response and far more effective action taken at UN level than what has happened to date.

Order of Business (11 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: It is an issue for which time in the House should be made available. There is no alternative forum as a committee on foreign affairs has not yet been established. It is a matter we cannot ignore.

Establishment of Committees (11 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: As someone who was absent from this House for five years, what I find most depressing is that nothing has changed. I listened and read with some interest the speech delivered by the Government Chief Whip. The proposals described as relating to Dáil reform do nothing other than tinker around the edges, dealing with mechanics and procedures as opposed to substance. I have reached the...

Child Care Services. (11 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: Two reports have been published in the past 24 hours that can only be described as damning indictments of the failure of the Government to provide essential services for children in need of care and for children at risk. The failure of services for children, as managed by the HSE, to provide for proper care management and long-term planning for children in care aged 12 years and under is...

Written Answers — Biofuels Industry: Biofuels Industry (11 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to require biofuels used in transport to comply with a new environmental certification system looking at their impacts on biodiversity and the amount of carbon reduction they achieve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23120/07]

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (16 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 435: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she has taken to implement the arrangements made with the Roman Catholic Church regarding the transfer of property to the State in return for the State accepting liability to discharge all payments due on foot of compensation claimed by victims of sexual abuse in residential institutions; the property so acquired; the...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (16 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 436: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the sum paid out by the State to date in respect of claims taken by victims of sexual abuse in residential institutions and in particular the sums paid out directly as a result of a decision by the redress board and the High Court on appeal from the redress board; and the number of such applications to the redress board and appeals...

Written Answers — Sexual Offences: Sexual Offences (16 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 491: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of convicted sex offenders currently in prison, on temporary release and the circumstances warranting such release, who have completed their sentence and are no longer imprisoned, whose addresses are presently known to An Garda Síochána pursuant to notification under the Sex Offenders Act 2001 and are not in...

Written Answers — Sex Offender Treatment Programme: Sex Offender Treatment Programme (16 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 492: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the prisons in which alleged sex offenders awaiting trial and not on bail are currently held and the numbers concerned; the prisons in which convicted sex offenders currently serving sentences are held and the numbers concerned; the numbers of convicted sex offenders currently undergoing treatment; the prisons in which...

Written Answers — Sex Offender Treatment Programme: Sex Offender Treatment Programme (16 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 493: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons currently employed full-time and part-time by the Prison Service to provide treatment to convicted sex offenders; the qualifications of same; the prisons to which they are attached; the number of said posts currently vacant; and his proposals to recruit additional personnel to provide such treatment....

Written Answers — Sex Offender Treatment Programme: Sex Offender Treatment Programme (16 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 494: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the type of treatment provided within the Prison Service to convicted sex offenders to attempt to ensure they do not re-offend upon release; and the action taken to implement the recommendations of the joint committee on child protection made in November 2006 that there be developed a comprehensive and fully funded...

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (17 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the review being undertaken by the Office of the Minister for Children of compliance by State bodies and NGOs with the children first guidelines has been completed; when it will be published; and the action he will take as a consequence of the review undertaken. [22836/07]

Written Answers — Control of Infectious Diseases: Control of Infectious Diseases (17 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she proposes to take to counteract the problem of MRSA in hospitals here; and the action taken to date. [22318/07]

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (17 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 257: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Adoption Board has, in determining a number of applications, rejected the opinion of Health Service Executive social workers that a couple or an individual are unsuitable for foreign adoption and made declarations of suitability, that substantial difficulties in effecting a foreign...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: On a point of order, when formerly in this House, it was my understanding that if a Minister deliberately or inadvertently misled the House on an issue, the tradition was a statement would be made by him or her to the House. That was the position until 2002. Am I to take it that in the context of the Minister, Deputy Dempsey, having given this House misleading information about the...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: The tradition that the Minister would come before the House and make a statement has been abandoned by this Cabinet.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: I suggest, Sir, that before any questions are answered the Minister——

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Alan Shatter: ——abide by the tradition of the House and make a statement, as previous Ministers have done in circumstances where they misled the House.