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Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Alan Shatter: The Minister can do that, but she should admit responsibility for creating the HSE.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Alan Shatter: The Minister has been in Government for almost 11 years. It is laughable.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Alan Shatter: The policy the Government promised at the time of the last election was the one it promised for the preceding six years and has not delivered.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Alan Shatter: The Minister has in reality retained those 11 boards.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Alan Shatter: The Minister has superimposed the HSE on the health boards.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Alan Shatter: Unless the bureaucracy is radically improved there will be more situations like the one in Portlaoise.

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2007)

Alan Shatter: She said she was not entitled to see it.

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2007)

Alan Shatter: The HSE will then censor the report the Minister receives.

Sports Funding. (29 Nov 2007)

Alan Shatter: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the plans he has to extend the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31519/07]

Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: A number of the statutory instruments being laid before the House on today's Order of Business were made under the Civil Registration Act 2004. That particularly good Act was passed three years and ten months ago. Does the Taoiseach intend providing time to discuss any of these statutory instruments? In the context of the legislation, is he aware that, despite the announcement on the...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Will the Taoiseach acknowledge it is unacceptable for it to have taken eight years to produce a report on serious allegations, now established, of physical and sexual abuse of children with disabilities in the Galway area? Will he indicate whether he intends to implement the recommendations contained in the report? What additional legislation will be brought forward to ensure that children...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: This is an important issue.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Today I tabled a private notice question on the report which has taken eight years to come out of the system. It is outrageous it has taken this long.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Sir, unless additional legal protections are put in place——

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: ——both children and adults with disabilities——

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: ——and who are the victims of physical and sexual abuse will not be adequately protected in the criminal law. There is a urgent need for legislation. The report has highlighted the institutional failures——

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: ——and ultimately the HSE's abysmal failure to ensure it was published in reasonable time.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: I want to see the legislation before the House as a priority.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: Has the Taoiseach nothing to offer?

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Alan Shatter: It has taken eight years to produce the report.