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

Alan Shatter: ...which seem to do exactly that. I said to him on a previous occasion that I find his continuing concerns for whistleblowers touching, given that some of his former colleagues in the Provisional IRA had little concern for such people. Their remedy was a bullet in the back of the neck.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Defence Forces: Motion (2 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...to some of the Deputy's queries. Of course, very particular skills have been developed within the Defence Forces to neutralise IEDs. This goes back to the time of the Troubles when the Provisional IRA and others used such devices. They occasionally manufactured them on this side of the island to be taken to the other side. The use of these devices has now transferred to criminal gangs....

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...í do." A substantial proportion of Garda time is and must be spent in preventing and investigating crime and in providing the necessary evidence to facilitate the prosecution of individuals before the courts. Gardaí daily engage in the fight against subversion by the self-styled new IRA and other criminal terrorists and investigate serious crime including homicide, rape, sexual...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: We have seen many thousands of individuals brought before the courts for a range of offences, including burglary. There has been a dramatic reduction in burglaries. There are the self-styled new IRA and other subversives or individuals the Garda has to deal with day in, day out, and the criminal gangs. Members of this House today protest about the impact on the Garda of some of these...

Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (27 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...of the report, I met with the Garda Commissioner. He has also publicly expressed his apology to the Breen and Buchanan families and his horror that any garda would have colluded with the Provisional IRA. It is notable that there has been no apology or expression of remorse from Sinn Féin for these murders so callously carried out by their erstwhile comrades. The tribunal made a...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2013)

Alan Shatter: ...on pension over the course of the year. Overall, the provision in subhead A2 will not be sufficient to meet projected costs. The number of surviving War of Independence spouses on pension is currently 157. The last Old IRA veteran in receipt of a pension died in 2006. A shortfall of €400,000 is also expected in appropriations-in-aid. This is also related to the much higher...

Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland Issues (5 Nov 2013)

Alan Shatter: ...or any political justification. Over the course of the conflict in Northern Ireland a number of people were murdered and buried secretly by paramilitary organisations, mainly the Provisional IRA. They have become known as the disappeared, as have others on other continents and in other countries who were treated similarly. This was a brutal practice, not alone the commission of kidnap...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (19 Jun 2013)

Alan Shatter: ...beginning on 30th June, 2013 and ending on 29th June, 2014.The House will be aware that the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was enacted in the wake of the murder of 29 people by the Real IRA in Omagh on 15 August that year. It was a necessary response to that terrible atrocity and the loss of 29 innocent lives. That bombing and those murders represented a direct attack...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jun 2013)

Alan Shatter: .... Who is to know whether some group of terrorists, home-grown or imported or a domestic representative of some foreign terrorist organisation, will see the summit as an opportunity for a "spectacular", to use the IRA phrase? Who is to know? I have no reason to believe it will happen but I believe in the precautionary approach. I believe our legislation should be as good as it can be to...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Reorganisation (7 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: ...in Northern Ireland. Conflict took place in Northern Ireland. It was a conflict of murder and mayhem in which many people lost their lives who should never have lost their lives and in which the Provisional IRA was fully engaged and saw the Defence Forces of this State as its enemy-----

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 35 – Army Pensions (Supplementary) (7 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: ...12,000 pensioners of all categories paid by the Department of Defence. This includes 10,047 retired members of the Permanent Defence Force, 1,666 spouses and children of deceased members and 212 spouses of deceased Old IRA veterans. Subhead A2 is the main subhead of the Army pensions Vote. It covers expenditure on all superannuation benefits for former members of the Defence Forces and...

Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (24 Oct 2012)

Alan Shatter: ...than 31 July, 2013’ for ‘not later than 31 October, 2012’.This motion proposes to amend the terms of reference of the tribunal of inquiry into suggestions of collusion by members of the Garda Síochána or other employees of the State in the murder by the Provisional IRA of RUC Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and RUC Superintendent Bob Buchanan in March 1989....

Seanad: Amendment to Terms of Reference of Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (24 Oct 2012)

Alan Shatter: ...proposes to amend the terms of reference of the tribunal of inquiry into suggestions of collusion by members of An Garda Síochána or other employees of the State in the murder by the Provisional IRA of RUC Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and RUC Superintendent Bob Buchanan in March 1989. The tribunal, as Members know, was established by the Oireachtas in 2005 and it is chaired by Judge...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gangland Killings (24 Oct 2012)

Alan Shatter: ...íochána. The way to ensure communities will not live in fear and that individuals will not be intimidated is to provide the Garda with the maximum amount of information. In the context of Alan Ryan's funeral, the Real IRA leader, reference was made to Operation Ambience which was launched by the Garda Commissioner. Nine men who had attended the funeral were arrested in...

Seanad: Amendment to Terms of Reference of Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (24 Oct 2012)

Alan Shatter: ...proposes to amend the terms of reference of the tribunal of inquiry into suggestions of collusion by members of An Garda Síochána or other employees of the State in the murder by the Provisional IRA of RUC Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and RUC Superintendent Bob Buchanan in March 1989. The tribunal, as Members know, was established by the Oireachtas in 2005 and it is chaired by Judge...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Oct 2012)

Alan Shatter: ...of Inquiry was established by the Oireachtas in 2005 to inquire into suggestions of collusion by Members of the Garda Síochána or other employees of the State in the murder by the Provisional IRA of RUC Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and RUC Superintendent Bob Buchanan in March 1989. The Tribunal is chaired by Judge Peter Smithwick, former President of the District Court. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Oct 2012)

Alan Shatter: ...of Inquiry was established by the Oireachtas in 2005 to inquire into suggestions of collusion by Members of the Garda Síochána or other employees of the State in the murder by the Provisional IRA of RUC Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and RUC Superintendent Bob Buchanan in March 1989. The Tribunal is chaired by Judge Peter Smithwick, former President of the District Court. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Oct 2012)

Alan Shatter: ...of Inquiry was established by the Oireachtas in 2005 to inquire into suggestions of collusion by Members of the Garda Síochána or other employees of the State in the murder by the Provisional IRA of RUC Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and RUC Superintendent Bob Buchanan in March 1989. The Tribunal is chaired by Judge Peter Smithwick, former President of the District Court. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Oct 2012)

Alan Shatter: ...of Inquiry was established by the Oireachtas in 2005 to inquire into suggestions of collusion by Members of the Garda Síochána or other employees of the State in the murder by the Provisional IRA of RUC Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and RUC Superintendent Bob Buchanan in March 1989. The Tribunal is chaired by Judge Peter Smithwick, former President of the District Court. The...

Topical Issue Debate: Gangland Killings (4 Oct 2012)

Alan Shatter: ..., we are not on a slippery slope. The rule of law in the State will be upheld and we will surrender no part of this country to any criminal gang of any description, nor will we do so to the criminal gang made up by the so-called Real IRA.