# alan-shatter - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
Justice Minister Alan Shatter was speaking as the government prepares to respond to the expert group on abortion’s report before the end of the year. TDs will also debate and vote on abortion legislation tonight.
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# alan-shatter - Tuesday 27 November, 2012
The Justice Minister also said he is unable to say when recruitment will recommence despite the high numbers expected to retire this year.
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# alan-shatter - Wednesday 21 November, 2012
The Justice Minister said he was “acutely aware” of the need to reform family law in Ireland to ensure equality for gay and lesbian parents.
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# alan-shatter - Sunday 18 November, 2012
Alan Shatter is hoping to use Ireland’s term leading the Council of the EU to encourage a pan-continental network of criminal asset bureaux.
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# alan-shatter - Tuesday 13 November, 2012
The call from Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin was in response to the Supreme Court ruling last Friday regarding the Children’s Referendum.
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# alan-shatter - Monday 12 November, 2012
The Justice Minister says that remains found at sea are particularly difficult to identify using DNA testing.
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# alan-shatter - Friday 9 November, 2012
At the start of this winter 210,000 tonnes of salt will be available and are strategically located across the country.
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# alan-shatter - Wednesday 7 November, 2012
Minister Shatter has said that “no court venue has been singled out or indeed exempted from the review process”.
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# alan-shatter - Saturday 3 November, 2012
Breaking via The Mire wire: Making it easier to get an Irish Heritage certificate; criminals too busy wetting themselves at Garda Segways to commit crimes; Richie Boucher catches Bond producers’ eye.
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# alan-shatter - Friday 2 November, 2012
New legislation will amend the in camera rule in courts, but will not allow the identification of the people involved.
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Minister Alan Shatter said that “all ordinary, normal, sane people do not want to see us return” to the time of the Troubles.
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# alan-shatter - Thursday 1 November, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# alan-shatter - Wednesday 31 October, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# alan-shatter - Sunday 28 October, 2012
Amid a growing row over a story on the front page of today’s Sunday Independent we publish both versions of a letter the Justice Minister sent Enda Kenny – one from the newspaper and one from the Minister.
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The Justice Minister responds to an earlier Sunday Independent statement regarding a frontpage story about correspondence between himself and the Taoiseach and says the paper needs to apologise.
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The justice minister says the Sunday Independent “corrupted the content” of correspondence with Enda Kenny.
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The government’s shelved any investigation into whether we should change – so we wonder what you think.
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Britain has put proposals to keep its clocks an hour forward on ice – and Alan Shatter says he’s doing so too.
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Good morning! Here’s nine things to know before your (belated) brekkie…
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# alan-shatter - Tuesday 23 October, 2012
Our early release system badly needs an overhaul, writes Liam Herrick of the Irish Penal Reform Trust.
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# alan-shatter - Monday 22 October, 2012
A new scheme approved by ministers could see unpaid fines deducted from a person’s wages if they remain unpaid.
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# alan-shatter - Friday 19 October, 2012
Supreme Court judges believe the current robes, which date from pre-independence, are inappropriate for a modern republic.
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# alan-shatter - Wednesday 17 October, 2012
The Inspector of Prisons has reported incidents of forced stripping of prisoners, excessive punishment, and bullying and intimidation of young and vulnerable inmates by staff at the facility.
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# alan-shatter - Tuesday 16 October, 2012
The tribunal – which is looking into whether there was Garda collusion in the deaths of two RUC officers – had an original deadline of 1 June 2012, before it was extended again to the end of October.
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# alan-shatter - Monday 15 October, 2012
Around €3 million will be spend on the new vehicles, which will include patrol cars, unmarked cars and vans.
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Fine Gael today launched their yes campaign for the children’s rights referendum in Dublin, which is set to take place on 10 November.
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# alan-shatter - Sunday 14 October, 2012
There has been a lot of interest in the new property price register website since it launched two weeks ago.
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The deaths took place over the past ten years. One quarter of the asylum seekers who died were under five years of age.
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# alan-shatter - Friday 12 October, 2012
The tribunal investigating Garda collusion in the murder of two RUC officers says an ill witness needs time to recover.
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# alan-shatter - Friday 5 October, 2012
The Justice Minister said protesters who forced the car carrying Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald to leave an event in Ballyfermot this morning showed a “callous disregard” for children.
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The Minister for Justice says the Gardaí can’t devote resources to protecting gangs who in turn are devoted to avoiding Gardaí.
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# alan-shatter - Friday 28 September, 2012
The single biggest drop came in the category of weapons and explosives offences, which fell by more than 15 per cent.
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The Justice Minister has been urged to make a speech on what Fianna Fáil has said was a “serious breach of a citizen’s fundamental rights” after Phil Hogan wrote a letter to constituents regarding a Traveller family.
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# alan-shatter - Tuesday 25 September, 2012
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The Justice Minister has said the “evil perpetrators have absolute no respect for human life” following the death of two men in Laois and Dublin. Both were shot in front of their children.
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# alan-shatter - Thursday 20 September, 2012
The Minister for Justice is concerned about the error in Apple Maps, which he says could mislead pilots not familiar with the area.
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# alan-shatter - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
The Department of Justice has taken the unusual step of commenting on the case of convicted murderer Catherine Nevin insisting that there has been no decision on her proposed temporary release.
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MacArthur was jailed in 1982 after he killed a nurse in the Phoenix Park and shot dead a farmer.
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The non-profit sector generates €6billion a year but goes virtually unregulated, writes Michael Moriarty. Isn’t it time this changed?
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