February 15th, 2010
Letter circulated by Chairman of the Committee is below statement
Alan Shatter TD is Fine Gael Front Bench Spokesperson on Children and a member of the Joint Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee
At a time when it is acknowledged in Rome that members of the clergy in Ireland are guilty of abominable sexual abuse of children, the refusal of the Papal Nuncio to attend a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee is not only deeply regrettable but incomprehensible. Continue reading »
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February 11th, 2010
5. Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to ensure the Health Service Executive engages in discussions with the Jack and Jill Foundation to provide the estimated €1,970,000 per annum additional financing required to enable the expansion of its home care services for severely disabled children to children under the age of six years; Continue reading »
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February 11th, 2010
35. Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if the review of Services for Children and Families 2008 published by the Health Service Executive discloses a failure by the State to properly protect children at risk; her views on whether it is acceptable that of 24,668 reports regarding children at risk, only 15,364 resulted in an initial assessment; and the action she is taking to ensure all reports are properly investigated and assessed. [6948/10] Continue reading »
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February 10th, 2010
168. Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps he will take to address the failures in our child protection services disclosed in the Health Information and Quality Authority national children in care inspection report of 2008; the steps he will take to ensure that the Health Service Executive vets all foster carers and to ensure there is a care plan in place in respect of every child in foster care and allocated social worker. [7129/10] Continue reading »
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February 10th, 2010
167. Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the action the Minister of State with responsibility for children has taken since meeting with persons (details supplied) on 6 October 2009 in respect of the tragic death of their nephew, having advised them that he would contact them within a period of three weeks; Continue reading »
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February 9th, 2010
352. Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the consideration given to designating the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the European Court of Justice sitting in Luxembourg as prescribed bodies to which section 40(7)(b) of the Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004 apply and to ask that the aforesaid courts be so prescribed by an order of the Minister pursuant to the 2004 Act to ensure that no difficulty arises in the giving of information or evidence given in proceedings to which section 40 of the 2004 Act applies which result in a related hearing taking place in either of the aforementioned European courts. [6711/10] Continue reading »
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February 3rd, 2010
99. Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Finance the salaries which would be payable to members of the Judiciary if the legislation enacted to provide for the public sector pension deductions and the public sector wage deductions implemented pursuant to budgetary measures adopted in 2009, applied to judicial remuneration in the same manner as it applies to public sector workers in receipt of comparable salaries; and the specific reductions which would have been effected in judicial remuneration in respect of judges appointed to the District, Circuit, High and Supreme Court. [5346/10] Continue reading »
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February 2nd, 2010
689. Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in sanctioning the funding for the construction of a new permanent school building at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the fact that original permission had already been given; if his attention has been drawn to the conditions at the school which both students and teachers have to tolerate; and when he will sanction the commencement of the school building project. [5284/10] Continue reading »
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January 29th, 2010
Shatter says they are being given a free pass on defiance of court orders
The Government and the courts are presently giving a free pass to many husbands and fathers ignoring District Court maintenance orders made for the support of wives and children, according to Fine Gael Children’s Spokesperson, Alan Shatter TD.
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January 26th, 2010
587.strong> Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Education and Science the arrangements made to create an independent trust to support the needs of survivors of institutional abuse for general education and welfare purposes; Continue reading »
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