Results 161-180 of 19,162 for speaker:Alan Shatter

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?

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?

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...

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...