Results 181-200 of 4,129 for in 'Dáil debates' speaker:Alan Shatter

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: The Tánaiste should confront reality. He does not realise the damage he is doing to politics and to his credibility.

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: Fianna Fáil has no principles or standards and its members are not prepared to stand up for anything. It is disgraceful.

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: Fianna Fáil is a party of no courage. Not a single one of them would stand up and say it is wrong to steal party funds.

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: He must have been the exception. He seems to be the only person in the country who did not.

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: The Tánaiste is pathetic.

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: Former Deputy Pádraig Flynn, former Taoiseach Mr. Charles Haughey — nothing has changed.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: She is being damned by faint praise.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: A new form of seduction of the Labour Party is spreading through the Fianna Fáil ranks.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: I propose to share time with Deputy Crawford. I find myself in the unusual position, although it has happened in the past, of agreeing with most of Deputy Flynn's contribution. I even find myself in the astonishing position of agreeing with the departing Deputy Finian McGrath. I can well understand the reason the Deputy expressed such enthusiasm for his local pharmacist. It is because he...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: Obviously in the preparation stage you were speaking constructively and after that you were sabotaged. You should have the courage to admit it.

Courts Service. (28 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: What has this got to do with the matter on the Adjournment?

Citizenship Applications. (28 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: I want to raise the general issue of citizenship applications and to illustrate the difficulties by referring to a specific case. It is my information that at this stage there are more than 17,000 applications for citizenship awaiting decision within the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The citizenship section of that Department is overwhelmed by the number of applications...

Citizenship Applications. (28 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: The same undertaking was made last September. Obviously, nothing has been done in the intervening period.

Citizenship Applications. (28 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: Ministers do not reply to e-mails.

Citizenship Applications. (28 Feb 2008)

Alan Shatter: I referred to 2004.

Park and Ride Facilities. (6 Mar 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Transport his Department's policy on the provision of park and ride facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9746/08]

Constitutional Amendments. (11 Mar 2008)

Alan Shatter: What is the intended date for the European referendum? The Taoiseach indicated that a date for sometime in the second week of June would be agreed. Is the Taoiseach aware that the leaving certificate examinations will take place at that time? A large number of teenagers who are eligible to vote in the second week of June will be very focused on their examinations. Has the Taoiseach given...

Constitutional Amendments. (11 Mar 2008)

Alan Shatter: Many arguments have been dreamed up in some of the referendums held.

Constitutional Amendments. (11 Mar 2008)

Alan Shatter: And the leaving certificate question.

Programmes for Government. (12 Mar 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 24: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of An Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10729/08]