Alan Shatter
Politician
They can't be namedThe High Court signed off on the sections to be redacted last Friday. Fine Gael spokesman on children Alan Shatter called for the immediate publication of the report. "The report's release to the media should not be given a priority over... In this article: Dublin, Desmond Connell, Fine Gael, John Charles McQuaid, Kevin McNamara, and Dermot Ryan |
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Scotland on Sunday | April 23, 2009
Kenny begins Middle East visit
...1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. Billy Timmins, Fine Gael's foreign affairs spokesman, Alan Shatter, children's spokesman, and human rights spokesman Pat Breen join Mr Kenny in the delegation. They will visit Jerusalem, Gaza and the...
In this article: Enda Kenny, Middle East, Fine Gael, All rights reserved, Hamas, Pat Breen, and Billy Timmins
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TD compares senior Jews to Goebbels
...on the pair during a parliamentary committee hearing into the conflict in Gaza in which he accused Ambassador Zion Evrony and Fine Gael's Alan Shatter of indefensible attempts to justify the Israeli bombing campaign. He likened their defence...
In this article: Joseph Goebbels, Sinn Fein, Gaza, All rights reserved, Fine Gael, and Adolf Hitler
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Independent.ie | October 30, 2009
Greens criticised over silence during four-day NAMA debate
...defend that either." Throughout the last four days, TDs who are not members of the Oireachtas Finance Committee, such as Labour's Pat Rabbitte and Fine Gael's Alan Shatter and George Lee, contributed to the debate. However, they did not...
In this article: Joan Burton, Labour Party, Green Party, Eamon Ryan, Sustainable development, Balance sheet, and Tax
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Times Online | January 22, 2009
Call for change of law as Irish mother of six jailed for incest
...treatment was first reported to the authorities. Alan Shatter of the opposition Fine Gael party said:"There are serious questions to be answered as to why there wasn't earlier intervention. "What did the education authorities know? These...
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boston.com - Latest world news | September 03, 2009
Poll: Irish gov't at historic low amid recession
...said there was a 40 percent chance that the government wouldn't survive past January. Fine Gael lawmaker Alan Shatter said the country "wants an election. This government does not have a mandate to govern." But Fianna Fail chief whip Pat...
In this article: Fianna Fail, Brian Cowen, Recession, Green Party, Fine Gael, Pat Carey, Ireland, and All rights reserved
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Brian's made up, but Joan gets lippy
...and Labour's Joan Burton to grill the Tanaiste. No sooner had Mary Coughlan finished reading out the agenda, when Alan shot out of his (or rather Enda's) seat and began complaining. Fine Gael's legal eagle was objecting to the proposal...
In this article: Joan Burton, Fine Gael, Fianna Fail, RTE, Paul Kehoe, and Timmy Dooley
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Shatter wants probe into HSE handling of abuse case
...cases of child sex abuse in recent years. The demand was made yesterday by Fine Gael spokesman for children Alan Shatter following a report on the child's case in the Irish Independent. The nine-year-old child was repeatedly raped by...
In this article: Allegation, Irish Independent, Fine Gael, Barry Andrews, Galway, and Dublin
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FG future looks brighter in boring old grey
...victory in 1982. Building Fine Gael meant encouraging the liberal agenda and promoting recruits like Alan Duke, Alan Shatter, Nuala Fennell and Monica Barnes, while traditionalists such as Joe Doyle were sidelined. But the party paid a...
In this article: Fine Gael, Garret FitzGerald, Leo Varadkar, Joe Doyle, Nuala Fennell, Benchmarking, Socialism, Progressive Democrats, and Labour Party
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Coughlan makes humiliating u-turn over legal advice
...was "window dressing". Fine Gael frontbencher Alan Shatter said the lack of legal advice in the first place was beyond comprehension if the protection of the taxpayer was really the first instinct of Ms Coughlan. "Minister Coughlan...
In this article: Legal advice, Allegation, Department of Finance, Waste, and Terms of reference
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Alan Joseph Shatter (born 14 February 1951) is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He is a TD, representing the Dublin South constituency. He was first elected as a TD at the 1981 general election, he lost his seat at the 2002 general election, and was re-elected at the 2007 general election. Shatter is also a former member of Dublin County Council. Shatter was born in Dublin to a Jewish family. He was educated at The High School, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin.
Having a legal background, Shatter has proposed much legislation during his time as a TD. While in opposition, he published more Private Members Bills than any other TD had done previously. His bills were successful in making change in areas such as health, sport and justice. Very often, Shatter tends to claim that the government amended bills that he brought forward and adopted them as their own, though has yet to actually bring forward an example.
During the 1980s Shatter successfully lobbied for the establishment of an Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the Committee from its foundation in 1992, apart from a brief period in 1993 to 1994, and its Chairman from December 1996 to June 1997.
During a period in 1993 to 1994 he was removed by party leader John Bruton as a disciplinary measure for breaking the party whip. This was occasioned by his voting in the Dáil in favour of a Bill to ban live hare coursing. Shatter is a former President of the Irish Council against Blood Sports.
He is known as an outspoken defender of Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip.
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