Results 421-440 of 4,808 for speaker:Alan Shatter in 'Dáil debates'
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: I do not want to say anything further about them but they are the subject of reports in today's newspapers.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: The arrests in question relate to individuals who, it is alleged, committed a number burglaries across the country. Perhaps the Deputy might, for once, acknowledge-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: -----that, regardless of procedural and other difficulties that arose on this issue-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: -----we have a police force-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: -----of which we can be proud. The members of that force are doing their duty and in the past 24 hours many of them have been out in the floods helping to ensure the safety of members of the public.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: On every occasion on which he has something to say about An Garda Síochána, Deputy Wallace appears to be engaged in a campaign to undermine public confidence in the force.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: The Deputy is incapable of acknowledging in any shape for form the good work done across a broad range of matters-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: -----and the substantial reduction in crime rates across the vast majority of areas. This is an issue in respect of which he is also incapable of acknowledging that even some of the allegations made have been established to be incorrect.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: As the Deputy knows, Assistant Commissioner O'Mahony's report only became available in May 2013. It was then referred to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: The Deputy is at it again. Is there any aspect of that report he accepts to be true or accurate?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: The Deputy is at it again.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: Deputy Wallace is making a career out of blackguarding the Garda Síochána.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: That is exactly what the Deputy is at.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: I remind the Deputy that he is a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. The two reports to which I referred were referred to that committee and it was open to that committee to hold hearings, call in An Garda Síochána and raise any questions it sought to raise arising out of those reports with other individuals. What the committee did was send...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: I have the transcript of what took place when the Garda Ombudsman appeared before the Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions. In response to a question raised, Carmel Foley of the GSOC addressed the matter and made references that correspond with what I said. She said that they were conscious that the whistleblower was a serving Garda and, therefore, they could not under the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)
Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, together. I begin by apologising to Deputies if my voice is not very clear. I seem to have some type of bug, but I will try my best. Before giving my reply to these questions, I take the opportunity to pay tribute to the work done by An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces and Civil Defence in recent days in helping people...
- Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Second Stage (21 Jan 2014)
Alan Shatter: For two years Fianna Fáil did nothing in government to implement it.
- Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Second Stage (21 Jan 2014)
Alan Shatter: Nothing happened between 2009 and 2011.
- Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Second Stage (21 Jan 2014)
Alan Shatter: I am sharing time with Deputies Keating, Barry, O'Donovan, Connaughton and Spring. I am pleased to address the House on this Private Members' Bill. We are all concerned at recent disclosures regarding certain charitable organisations. We are all concerned at the impact these disclosures are having on Ireland's charities, many of which are excellently run and have nothing to fear from...
- Topical Issue Debate: Prison Committals (21 Jan 2014)
Alan Shatter: -----endangering the lives of passengers-----