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Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: From the Seanad (9 Dec 2015)

Alan Shatter: ...of the legislation was to end anti-competitive practices that had built up over the years in the manner in which our legal professions on this island developed. The anti-competitive practices applied to both wings of the profession, but to a greater extent to the Bar than solicitors. The objective of the legislation was not, as some within the legal profession perceived it, to do anyone...

Referendum and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Alan Shatter: ...High Court challenging the outcome of that referendum, an unprecedented constitutional difficulty could have arisen. To resolve this difficulty, the Bill prescribes that a stay will automatically apply to any order made by the High Court for the days during which an appeal can be lodged with the Supreme Court or, where such appeal is lodged, until it is determined by the Supreme Court....

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2015)

Alan Shatter: ...concerned, and it might sound tough to say this, would not be born or exist in many instances without anonymous donation. It is a question of a balanced and rational approach that needs to be applied. I am aware of what the UN and other organisations have said. However, we now live in a remarkably different world. One reason for recording information about donors or knowing...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2015)

Alan Shatter: ...may already be adults or no longer living in this country? Issues with parentage could arise on the death of a parent where there is a succession dispute. Will the fact that a person did not apply create a difficulty and will there be some measures in the Bill to address the consequences of this? Perhaps I misunderstand the Bill but it does seem to me to envisage that where there...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2015)

Alan Shatter: May I respond? It is relevant because there is a connection between the children to whom the sections apply and the process whereby declarations of parentage are sought in the District Court. We sometimes think we have to invent wheels that have long since been invented in other countries. I do not know the exact statistics but as far as I am aware, there have been many thousands conceived...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2015)

Alan Shatter: ...referenced. It is section 24(5). It provides for a period of three years from the date on which that subsection comes into operation, a gamete to which paragraph (a) of that subsection does not apply may be used, basically, in an assisted human reproduction procedure. Then it goes through a whole series of issues. The three years is the problem. I am going to ask the Minister to...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2015)

Alan Shatter: ...contained in the objection be furnished to the now adult child? I do not know the answer to this. Will the child have an opportunity to respond? I am not clear on this. Will any fair procedures apply? I do not know. In the context of an appeal there should be an obligation that the court knows the exact basis on which the Minister has withheld information. Presumably whatever...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2015)

Alan Shatter: ...involves the other parent in fundamental issues relating to children. I made a point in the Dáil about what happens in a small number of instances when relationships break down. This does not apply to the majority of parents who behave responsibly when relationships break down by trying to protect their children from difficulties. Most custodial parents try to maintain a good...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Alan Shatter: ...framed, the legislation created certain presumptions. It certainly allowed for a court application where a dispute as to parentage arose. Where there is no dispute, the presumptions would have applied and the formula adopted was one that had worked successfully in a series of other common law jurisdictions. It was not unique; it was looking at what had worked in practice elsewhere. I...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (26 Nov 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...a threshold of €225,000, regardless of whether it is inheritance simpliciteror a mixture of inheritance and gifts. The 2014 threshold of €225,000 is actually more penal than the threshold that applied in 1995, when the threshold before inheritance tax arose was €226,267. Given that the value of money has substantially changed in the intervening 20 years, it is clear...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...Comhairle rules me out of order, I wish to deal specifically with the code of practice and code of conduct issues. There are, as the Minister properly said, different provisions in place that apply both to the solicitors' profession and the Bar in respect of codes of practice and codes of conduct, or whatever one may wish to refer to them as. It is clear from my work in this area that...

Cooke Report: Statements (19 Jun 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...for Justice and Equality, or from some others, "a different view of the facts could emerge" as to my dealing with Sergeant McCabe's allegations and my taking heed of his concerns. Of course, even if this had been expressly stated by him, it would have been no substitute for applying to me the ordinary rules of fair procedure instead of rushing to judgment with obvious consequences. I...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Recruitment (7 May 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...Forces leave on retirement with particular niche skills that make them readily employable. Even in a difficult jobs market, they are able to obtain employment, although I accept that does not apply to everybody and no one should pretend that it does. The process is meaningful, as it must be. However, the Deputy cannot have it every way. He cannot say, on the one hand, say we do not...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Recruitment (7 May 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...consultation with the Permanent Defence Force Other Ranks Representative Association, PDFORRA. In 1997 agreement was reached with PDFORRA on a new manpower policy for the Defence Forces. This policy, applying to personnel enlisted after 1 January 1994, provided that service for private soldiers would initially be for five years with the option to be extended to a maximum of 12 years,...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (7 May 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...and to develop a personal capacity to be more effective in conflict resolution. The aim of the course is to give students an understanding of mediation and negotiation. It will allow them to apply these techniques in common security and defence policy crisis management operations and missions. I assume that that is the type of activity that the Deputy has in mind.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures in the Public Interest (7 May 2014)

Alan Shatter: ..., internal, regulatory and external, which the worker can access to acquire important employment protections. Three specific forms of protection are provided for in the legislation which will also apply to all members of the Defence Forces. These protections are protection from the retributive actions of an employer; protection from civil liability; and protection from victimisation by...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reorganisation (7 May 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...service and pensionable pay at retirement date. They have a ‘minimum pension age’ of 50. For those joining the PDF from 1 January 2013onwards, the new Public Service Single Pension Scheme applies. The position in relation to promotional opportunities for enlisted personnel is that they are promoted to fill rank vacancies in the establishment as provided for in the Defence...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (7 May 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...August, 2013 in both cases. These renewal decision letters were both dated 4th August, 2010. The renewal decision letters referred to advised the persons concerned of the requirement that they apply for further renewal of their permission to remain one month before their existing permission expired. Given that there is no record of any such renewal applications having been lodged to...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (7 May 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...consultation with Permanent Defence Force Other Ranks Representative Association (PDFORRA). In 1997 agreement was reached with PDFORRA on a new manpower policy for the Defence Forces. This policy, applying to personnel enlisted after 1 January 1994, provided that service for Private Soldiers would initially be for five years with the option to be extended to a maximum of twelve years,...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...back for Report Stage where we can revisit the point. I am certainly happy to reflect on it but I think the approach we are taking accords with the appropriate intent and principles that should be applied by a human rights institution. The Deputy made the point that it might allow certain individuals to behave in a particular way a majority does not necessarily applaud or approve of or...