Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Errors in HSE pharmacist list bodes ill for needs of medical card patients
Taoiseach Brian Cowen must intervene in the pharmacy dispute and appoint a mediator in order to ensure that patients continue to have access to supplies of medication, Fine Gael TD Alan Shatter said today (Tuesday). Continue reading »
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Fine Gael Spokesperson on Children, Alan Shatter TD today (Saturday) said the apologies given and contrition shown by religious orders and congregations, following publications of the Ryan Commission Report in May last, ring hollow in the context of their continuing reported failure to furnish to Government full details of their assets and finances. Continue reading »
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Fine Gael TD Alan Shatter today (Monday) called for an immediate stop to be put to plans to dig up a car park at Leinster House during the Dail summer recess in order to reinstate a lawn. The project will cost the taxpayer €230,000 plus an additional annual expense for the rental of car parking spaces to replace those that will be lost. Continue reading »
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Deputy Alan Shatter: I am very conscious that making any public comment is like walking on glass in dealing with this legislation, whether from the Minister or any other Member. I have followed the debate from my office this morning and noted the careful contributions of all Deputies who have spoken thus far. Continue reading »
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Dail Transcript
9th July 2009
Deputy Alan Shatter: My colleagues have voiced many valid criticisms of this Bill which I believe has been prepared with undue haste. It is being guillotined in circumstances which are highly inappropriate and which is laying the foundation for attacks on which I expect the Government to further build in the next budget. Continue reading »
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
* To ask the Minister for Health and Children the outcome of the visit of her Minister of State for Children to Vietnam to put in place a new agreement with regard to inter-country adoption; the arrangements agreed; when the licence of an agency (details supplied) will be renewed by the Vietnamese authorities; Continue reading »
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Dail Transcript
7th July 2009
Deputy Alan Shatter: Fine Gael fully supports the Labour Party Bill, which contains provisions that reflect issues detailed in the all-party motion passed by the Dáil on 12 June. Many of the issues addressed in the Bill are those that Fine Gael insisted be mentioned in the motion. They would not have been included had we not pursued the issue with the Government in the lead-in to the debate on the motion.
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
“The HSE’s practice of investigating itself must end.”
Commenting on a report in today’s (Monday) Irish Times on the establishment of a review group to inquire into the deaths of 20 children in care, Alan Shatter TD, Fine Gael Spokesperson on Children, said: Continue reading »
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Speech delivered by Alan Shatter TD at the launch of “Irish Family Law Precedents Service” by Ciara Matthews on Wednesday 1st July 2009 at 6 pm at the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
There has been much criticism in recent weeks of the “undue deference” shown to Roman Catholic clergy and members of religious orders in the context of the appalling revelations of sexual abuse and physical brutality of young children. Continue reading »
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Question No 27. Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether it is satisfactory that a patient suffering from cystic fibrosis, in need of medical care due to their condition, Continue reading »
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