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MINISTER FOR JUSTICE Alan Shatter has been called on to resign over the ongoing row about allegations concerning Deputy Mick Wallace and penalty points.
On Thursday night, the Minister alleged on RTÉ’s Prime Time that Wallace had been cautioned for driving while using a mobile phone, but benefited from garda discretion and avoided penalty points.
Wallace said that he had no idea what Shatter was referring to, which was rubbished by Shatter in a statement. Wallace later said he would lodge a complaint against the minister.
However, in a statement yesterday, Shatter said that Wallace was “making a pretence, for political purposes” in saying he did not know what incident the minister was referring to.
In a statement today, Wallace described Shatter’s statement as being “a further attempt to deflect attention from the grave issues of Garda malpractice”. He accused Shatter’s statement of deliberately misrepresenting his position and said that he is unaware of the incident.
Wallace intends to continue to pursue this issue and will be calling a press conference along with his colleagues Clare Daly TD, Joan Collins TD and Luke Ming Flanagan TD next week.
Call to resign
Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins told TheJournal.ie that in an interview with RTÉ earlier this evening he called on Minister Shatter to resign.
He asked:
How can the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste expect people to have confidence in the Minister when he has clearly crossed the line and he has blatantly abused his position to clinically smear another individual with privileged information?
Collins said that questions have arisen as to how Shatter is in possession of the information, and why he decided to use it in this manner.
Collins’ party are also asking has Shatter used similar information against other people “that we are not aware of and we are calling into question his judgement and we are calling on him to resign”, continued Collins.
When asked by TheJournal.ie what reaction he anticipates from this call, Collins said “you would expect the Taoiseach and Tánaiste to… be very concerned and take an interest in it”.
How do they expect people to have confidence in the Minister for Justice and by extension the Government when a government minister is abusing his position?
Sinn Féin’s justice spokesperson, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD, said that Minister Shatter must explain how he came by the alleged information about Wallace.
Deputy MacLochlainn described it as “very worrying” that a Minister for Justice can go on Prime Time “and use information which he says comes from An Garda Síochána, to score a political point against a Dáil colleague”.
The Minister must explain how he came by this information and clarify that it is not hearsay.
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The Man has lost the plot. He was given a position in the cabinet and as minister for justice he should seem intelligent and productive. As it stands now he is like a school playground bully. How can he continue???
Time to step down and retire to your massive pension
And they wanted us to vote for more powers for these politicians to investigate and judge people? No thanks.
This minister should resign. He cries crocodile tears over the grsves of heroes while cutting Garda and Army to shreds. Two guarantors of democracy destroyed by this man.
ffbt74, Yes, it’s in everyone’s interest that he should resign now but his pension should be cut by at least 50%. He should not be allowed a full pension when he has been incompetent at his job.
John
I have a pension with the Company I have worked with for over forty years and I never once saw a contract that was dependent on performance and if such a condition was imposed retrospectively it would be in breach of the Constitution. So you want to behave illegally against the Minister for Justice because somehow you have convinced yourself that he has somehow behaved illegally? John John John do you want to reconsider your silliness and have another go.
Just as a by the way……….you have considered the possibility that the Minister has been found to be in breach of some law or regulation etc and …………… John you haven’t just decided that regardless he’s just guilty?
Oh dear!
Wallace should resign for stealing from the Irish people. ie. his taxes that he said he would pay back and isn’t.
That man upsets me by just looking at him.
Rick, I understand that Shatter broke the law, by abusing his ministerial position.
If you broke the law ion your company and were sent to prison, i am not sure if you would get a pension if you had only held the position for 2 years. Thats in a normal job. However, FF/FG/Labour have written their own job contracts and I am sure they have every base covered for this type of eventuality (based on their histories of corruption) to ensure that they get as much money as possible for themselves, no matter what they have done illegally.
Shatter might be a prig but Wallace if was cautioned seems a bigger prig !
At the end of the day, Shatter did not make this up and Wallace and Ming both are a waste of public money and an embarrassment to this country. If Sinn Fein condemn the Minister then
“I rest my case milord “
Cathal you have no basis in law for making that outrageous statement against the Minister. You also should assume innocence until guilt is proven. Try to fe decent.
Rick, trust me, i have been trying to ignore what i heard Shatter say on prime time. Please quote one law that allowed him to make that comment (whether right or wrong in terms of content) as an official minister for justice, considering all the regulations he is worn to uphold….?
If he is incompetent in his job then he deserves no pension
Well he is the guy that said when the Government lost a Supreme Court case, “we won the case in the High Court”. That’s the level we’re at, here.
Cathal’s points are based in law. Ones relating to SIPO and use of information.
Scenario A: Shatter, THE MINISTER FOR JUSTICE, disclosed information protected under the data protection act to score political points against an opponent on national television. In which case he should resign.
Scenario B: Wallace was never stopped and Shatter, THE MINISTER FOR JUSTICE, lied on national television to score poitical points against an opponent. In which case he should resign.
We know what should happen. What will probably happen will be the following….
FF mention it in the Dail, Kenny brings up the economic collapse
SF mention it in the Dail, Kenny makes some smarmy remark about Jean Mc Conville
Shatter climbs into Thunderbird 2 and flies off to survive another day and further bring his position into disrepute with the next calamity.
On what planet do you live?
Yoda? Is that you?
I think it just goes to show why we should not give the Govt extra powers.
There is currently no transparency or accountability within the Govt for the powers the Govt are currently abusing.
I would be totally against in giving corrupt men and corrupt women any more of a strangle hold over the Irish People.
Whats the bets that kenny and gilmore will stand up and say they have full confidence in shatter (like they did with reilly) and shatter will be left alone.
Seriously folks,it shows just how cancerous and rotten to the very roots this shower of paracitic has beens really are.
I love this different brand of politics we’re getting, don’t you?
mike Clinton @ you can join the gang think in the gardai just look back over you pages herein as for shatter he put his foot in it by trying like you to stand with the so called guardians of the peace and the very people see it for what it is after all who told him or did he lie. One or the other it cant be a part of our democracy
Surprised with that comment Harry, you being such a big Garda supporter.
Mike
Leaving alone the absence of titles such as Mister or Minister in your little diatribe I was just wondering why your spell check or predictive text facility is continuously letting you down. It must be so embarrassing for you as you recheck your contributions when counting the number of green thumbs you garner. Take my advice and triple check every single time as you really need to avoid readers questioning either your education or lack of it.
lower case tweets are fine by me. SNOBBERY is not.
If you don’t agree with his comment, then why not argue your point, rather than focus on petty grammatical mistakes?
And you forgot a couple of commas in your post yourself Rick, ya sad bastard.
* Correction, that should be capital ‘S’, capital ‘B’.
Very petty Rick!
People are entitled to judge a man who will lie & obfuscate the truth to save his own skin. Shatter has so little respect for the electorate that he still refuses to explain his serious abuse of his position. In the US or the UK he would be gone by now.
What happened to the last three Gardaí who showed no confidence in him? THEY were held to account & bullied into submission with the threat of losing their jobs & pension.
Banana-Republic politics.
Oh, and Rory? Stick to the issues & leave the personal attacks to the primary school kids. Good lad!
Oh $hatter is lashing out in all directions. He has to be investigated for abusing his power. Who in the gardai is he getting to compile the information on his politcal rivals. Its like a mini watergate. I hope it has the same conclusion only a lot quicker.
Zzzzzzz
It is in neither FG or FF’s interest that a full and proper investigation in to this takes place. So it will not happen.
Another tragedy in the shamocracy.
@Richie …I agree. If $hatter was an MP his resignation papers would already be in Cameron’s back pocket. But he’s so confident that the dirt he probably has compiled on the rest of the cabinet and daul members, he’s able to laugh it off when people say his blatant abuse of power leaves him with no option but to resign.
We now have a Stasi type justice minister who has shown if anyone speaks out against him, he’ll be on the phone wanting dirt on the individual.
If we tolerate this…………..
Shatter, Wallace, Collins and MacLochlainn I wouldn’t piss on any of them if they were on fire
Takes you again to lower the tone
I aim to please
Surely Gerry Adams should resign if that’s the case…wasn’t he on the army council of the IRA
Gerry was never in the IRA *wink wink
@Finglas For Tans…You would have been an exemplary Tan during the burning of Cork!!
Wrong type of Tan Colm, how did this turn into an SF bash-at-thon?
Finglas, its called deflection.
Deflection my eye…SF are great spouting populist rubbish from the opposition benches…if try ever get into government they’ll be talking from the other side if their mouths!
Stephen, prove it, prove SF are exactly the same as FG/FF/Labour….
What i can say is that FG/FF/Labour have all proven to be brilliant at talking out the other side of their mouths. I can definitely prove that.
In this case, its definitely not better ‘the devil you know’ … in this case, its better going with the best alternative. I and many many others will show that at the next election.
Well tbh Cathal for SF to be electable they have to appeal to the electorate by saying things that are popular like no household tax, cuts ect. But when they get into government and see the the reality of actually governing this country and the pressure it’s under to balance the budget and make savings
It’s a totally different matter…
I do think SF’s vote will surge in the next election at the expense of labour btw
You’re completely right Stephen, SF are masters of populism.
Cathal, you do realise that as a far left party SF would have you paying even more taxes, driving structural and frictional unemployment through the roof and ensuring that FDI is a thing of the past for Ireland, these are economic facts.
You’re completely right Stephen, SF are masters of populism.
Cathal, you do realise that as a far left party SF would have you paying even more taxes, driving structural and frictional unemployment through the roof and ensuring that FDI is a thing of the past for the country.
Stephen, i appreciate the honest reply, but i think we have been indoctrinised into believing there is no alternative into believing ‘there is no alternative to austerity taxes’, and that those taxes must come from the lower income families to be sustainable.
I do believe in a fair an equitable tax regime, that supports ensuring disposable incomes at a level that supports GNP growth, rather than focusing tax regimes that focus on GDP growth driven regimes.
Without home growth, we end up becoming overly reliant on corporations delivering all the jobs growth that is required.
We need a balance on both!
Unfortunately, with FG/FF/Labour efforts, they have and are, overly burdening the middle & lower income families with taxes are regressive in their nature (sucking disposable money out of the economy), and thus, starving the natural growth required to make our economy sustainable.
Adam,
Go onto the BBC website and select the Northern Ireland Tab (Under UK) and just read all the articles there, in relation to new job announcements (North of the Border). The North is generating thousands of new jobs every year, their unemployment levels are falling. Compare that to our state of affairs and say which efforts are better.
Thanks Cathal I enjoy a reasonable and civil debate on this for a change :-)
I agree in a tax regime that’s fair to all and that’s low enough…. People work hard enough for their money without being drained in tax.
And I’m far from an affluent background btw.
Bit I think people see SF as a different alternative government party that will bring real change which i think they won’t as they will be dragged sharply back to the centre when they enter a government coalition and will be making hard and unpopular decisions as they are in the North
I think they will be a coalition partner in government in the near future.
Northern Ireland is heavily reliant on state assistance, in fact, I believe the Secretary of State recently referred to their level of public spending as ‘unsustainable’.
In relation to your point on austerity Ireland has not properly implemented savings, in fact our government spending in relation toGDP has increased. Keynesian economic policy’s do not work, they never have and one can point to a multitude of states to prove that you cannot spend your way to prosperity.
It’s also interesting to note that aggressive government spending policies have failed in both France and Portugal to stop negative economic growth.
High taxes on earners, without spending restraint by our government is not austerity.
The facts presented in the article below will probably just be ignored but it is worth reading even if just to dismiss it.
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/krugmans-still-wrong
Interesting article…I don’t want to assume that you lean more right than left but I think we’re in a minority on this site.
Adam, in the last 6 years, the percentage of people being employed by the state sector versus private sector has dropped at a faster rate in the North, than at any time since prior to the Northern Government taking control taking control. That simply flies in the face of what you are trying to infer. I like to deal in facts and not innuendo and spin.
Yes, i think they were coming from a very bad place, but the fact that they are increasing private sector job rates, at the rate they are doing, very strongly suggests they are doing a much better job than the south is and have a much more effective strategy than we are following.
I didnt mean to get side-tracked …. Shatter is a traitor to the Irish in my opinion, who used and abused an office given to him, by the electorate to score Political points on a live National Television Service. He should resign and he should face the full rigor of the law, and be imprisoned of his dirty Fascist efforts.
Don’t get me wrong Cathal I’m not defending the governments approach here at all, I am strongly opposed to taxation, I am also opposed to government spending, both of which our current policy-makers do in excess.
And yes, we have gotten sidetracked, Agreed on the Shatter comment.
Stephen, you assume right, if I had to describe myself with an ‘ism’ it would be Libertarianism, when it comes to Economics, Milton Friedman is god.
I’m a member of FG and I’m not ashamed to say that….but I have to agree with you Cathal I’m not Alan shatters biggest fan which doesn’t go down to well at Branch meetings as you can imagine!
Ha good man Ron Paul for pres :-P
if you have that info…give it to guards…..or are you just going on what someone read out to you in a newspaper
Collins reckons the deputy leader should be concerned.
The man who admitted lieing himself on live tv, I’d say he’s relived!
Seriously, these men are an affront to the office they hold.
They need to leave, now
What’s pretty obvious to me reading these comments is that there are a lot of profiles clearly being paid to give the impression that there are people in this country supporting the current government.
There isn’t.
In the States the same pr push is happening in an effort to get Bush junior into the White House.
There is no Democracy.
There is PR, money, lies and spin.
Big business supporting inept greedy pretend politicians. The degrading of language to slogans and mistruths.
Democracy is dead.
Have to agree that a member of Fianna Fáil going on about the need to respect the rule of law is sickening. Shatter is also sickening though.
shalom hatichat harah!!!!!
He’s continually compromising his position. Issues with Guards, Judges, now this. And this is just as a minister, imagine what he’d be like as Taoiseach? It would be like having Vladimir Putin or someone.
Look back at some of the inept fools that have been in this job in previous years and how even they’ve managed not to compromise it.
Shatter, Hogan and Reilly were the three main backers of Enda during the heave, he rewarded them with the three most powerful jobs outside of finance, and they are by far the three most inept at their jobs. And we thought we were getting something different….
Well at least Vladamir Putin is sound
Kevin–you must be very young or else have a very poor memory–CJHaughey Sean Doherty ,Ray Burke and Pee Flynn were former Ministers for Justice.A good Minister for Justice must,of necessity ,have issues with Gardai and Judges–it is part of the job.Nothwithstanding that,his comment on Prime Time was ill advised.
If Mr,Shatter has any dignity he should resign now after his breach of trust towards the Irish people.
I think this latest episode shows he really has no dignity.
I think the Dail would be a better place without both Shatter and Wallace!
i think the dail wouldbe a better place without t.d’s full stop.
He shouldn’t have access to confidential Garda on an individual and definitely shouldn’t make it public, would you be happy to let the minister of health having access to your medical records or the minister of social protection access to your bank account? he showed a clear lack of judgement and showed his true colour is trying to discredit wallace with confidential information, especially as there is enough in the public sphere already to do that.
I don’t think there is an issue with him having access to this information, the issue is abuse of his position as Justice Minister by using that information for political gain. Like him or not that is irrelevant, he has to resign due to his actions on the disclosure of that confidential information.
The most serious issue is how he has access to this information. He has no legal right to that information, none at all.
The use of it is also very serious and breaks several laws. However the fact that he has it implies that the Guards are used as a dirty tricks investigation firm but the state against the Govt. of the days friends or fellow travellers.
Its hardly new. FF Ministers for Justice have long track records of abusing the law and their power.
It’s not acceptable.
Nixon resigned because he used members of the CIA to tap the phones of the democratic HQ in order to gather dirt. Here we have justice minister doing tne exact same thing minus the wire tapping.
Give the man another shovel, he can’t dig deep enough
Time for Shatter to go. Is he not meant to be bringing in a new bill that will require a referendum to increase Dail powers to investigate the banks etc., How can anyone trust him now.
I’m also sure he’ll be asked to stand down/resign also after this coming Mondays primetime investigates as I believe it’s going to feature the issuing of poisonous anti-malaria drugs to our troops which has resulted in double figured suicides, depression, anxiety, and a whole load more..
The reason I believe he’ll be targeted is because he has decided to continue the issuing of the drug!
This is real and it’s happening. Sad really!
A misguided decision!
For the love of God!
They should all be ashamed of themselves.
This recession is biting hard and affecting every friend and business person I know.
The people of Ireland are broke, stressed, upset and it’s getting worse. Meanwhile, all these idiots can go is sling mud at each other in the most childish manner imaginable.
It’s a crying shame that a cent of my taxes and your taxes I’d being used to pay for this muppet show.
I agree it’s about time they all stopped acting like children, and grew up and started working together to get this country back on track.
Well said Philip worse than the muppet show.
so agree with you,, there is not one of them lads that should even be allowed on prime time,, they come off as arguing over stupid stuff, nothing about this countrys condition,, and recession not even hit yet,, everything going up and no jobs that should be their concern , to help the home owners going homeless,,, they are out for people that work and get paid from tax payers,, ie police, nurses, teachers,, they should start at the top, thats where our money is wasted on their high salarys and pensions, and pensions of ex partiers,,, and then want to tax smart phones for suicide,, hello they are going to tax them with new media licence how much more can they do,, tax smart phones on the shelf and leave the poor alone,, none of them have them,, eejits
Well said
Look at what happened to the MP and his wife in England serving a stretch for fiddling points. What a shower of turds. Wallace, Jesus Christ, in a decent state he’d b slopping out. Actually, in a decent country he wouldn’t, but its a kip, so there u go! As for Shatter, he’s a shit. His arrogance this time round is appalling. FG have lost the run of themselves completely. What the fk are we gonna do!
This country is a kip all right where we worry about ministers pensions. I have said it on here many times that when they are incompetent at their work we shouldn’t have to even think about their pensions. They should go without it or at least cut it by 50%. This government saw fit to cut peoples household help allowance of E62 a month down to E44 and they saw no problem at all with that. I think it would be a decent thing for the people of Ireland that this shower of crooks should all leave office as quickly as possible.
Substantiate please the accusation of the Government being “crooks”. Not opinion, one instance where this Government has been exposed as crooked as per Ray Burke, Liam Lawlor, Ivor Callely etc.
Vincent. Crooked; as in dishonest, untruthful, deceitful.?
@ Vincent Dolan, “Michael Lowry”. I am very hay to go into detail, if you are unfamiliar with the detail.
ummm lied to get in,, no home tax,, no cuts on child benefit,, that is where it started,, and cant say they are corrupt as they dont do anything ,, more jobs being lost than made,, more people made homeless than banks paying out after all they got in and still in trouble,, they have made no impact on this country only austerity and turning everyone against each other,, they go on about cops, nurses, firemens wages,, nothing about the billions we have to borrow to pay their wages, pensions, expenses,, oh 98 thousand for enda for weekend in ny,,, bullshit,, would have paid a few more cops to walk our streets,,, they do not see reality and whats going on inside peoples home, going hungry, going cold and threats of losing their homes,, that is the crime they will be remembered for,,, but they keep spending,, think if you live in dublin its not as affected,,, but come down to kerry,, tralee main st has no jobs only if you are on a scheme,, and schemes are what they are,,,, get off dole line and work in second hand shops,, we could sell some of them,, about 20 in our main st,,, and businesses and shops closing every day,,, they are doing nothing to keep what we have ,, nothing,, and joan burton,, someone shoot her and get her out of my misery,, she is the most pathetic person i have ever heard making excuses for a pay check,,, her new scheme is everyone lose a job and get in staff at cheaper rates,, once again at tax payers expense,, as previous staff have to be paid 2 weeks for every year they worked,, oh such a joke,,,
It would be a wonderful day for ireland if shatter and the other mupoets resign. I would take one resignation as a start.
Itswhatitis
My dear fellow I think your either overdue some spelling lessons or are you just upstairs on a bus to Bray?
@Rick A misspelling AND a missing comma!!……??
It’s you’re Rick. I hate correcting people except the Grammar Nazis who left school early.
@Rick you get my point. I am not in a spelling compo. Pretty sad if you can only comment on spelling.
@Rick what word is spelt wrong. Just to correct you I think you mean grammar fool.
@Rick what word is spelt wrong. Just to correct you I think you mean grammar clown boy.
Itswhatitis
Muppets mupots mepoets muppppppoeisa.
Rick, you spelt “you’re” wrong. You also left out two commas. Just saying.
Wish they would both resign. Pair of w*nkers
he should resign anyway, its been one cock up after another
FF members should be more worried about their own party instead of spending their time calling on people to resign and contracting this, that and everything else!
They’re risings in the pols all the time unfortunately, but I’m sure they would thank you for your concern. That be some poooor obfuscation.
FF being more concerned with their own party isn’t something they’ve ever had a problem with.
What a shower of bastards we have pretending to be politicians in this country. As if Shatter would ever considering resigning! The very idea of any of that lot doing the honourable thing is complete fallacy. As for that other piece of work, Wallace. He should be locked up for years to come. Let’s be honest. Ireland, (as Eamon Dunphy so eloquently put it) is a KIP.
Think you will find FG like FF before them are quite happy to encourage people to leave Vincent there is no need to further encourage it.
Why should I have to leave Vincent? Of course I know that that’s what you and the gangsters at the helm are striving to achieve. The bastard politicians want everyone who criticises them to leave.
Rodrigo- I had your best interest at heart. I was referring to you calling Ireland a kip. While I disagree with you, I’d hate for you to be under misapprehension that you were in some way trapped her. I simply wanted to make you aware that there are alternatives. You shouldn’t have to live with other people who are actually proud of the country.
Hey Vincent. I used to be proud of my country, then I woke up and realised that the ordinary decent people,who make up over 90% of the population were being taken for a ride by a crowd who are no more than a self serving, criminal gang. I’m assuming by the very fact that you come on here and vehemently defend them on a daily basis that you are part of that criminal gang.
Rodrigo- substantiate your accusation of “criminal” conduct by this Government or just admit you’re talking through your backside. I’m waiting…
Vincent , many of our children have had to leave the airports you refer to – exported by the ineptness of the present and previous Government Parties – obviously your circumstances hove not had to suffer the loss of a son, daughter , friend, or sibling, to the curse of having to emigrate.
Not a single Politician or Banker jailed nearly five years into the meltdown of our economy through fraud and collusion ?
It begs an answer and a buffoon like Shatter is one of the main reasons why.
Mr dolan do you know the song matchstick men matchstick cats and dogs sounds good on old tapes
Surely one of the greatest crimes ever committed by a so- called government was to force the debt of a gambling casino, i.e. Anglo Irish Bank, on to the shoulders of ordinary Irish people for generations. The same government who promised to burn bond holders in order to gain power.
Phil Hogan and Michael Lowry. The defence of Michael Lowry by Fine Gael.
When your pals decided to make future generations responsible for a private gambling casinos debt, I.e Anglo Irish Bank. It committed an unforgivable crime against the ordinary people of Ireland. Vincent, this is from your gang that promised to burn bond holders in order to gain power.
Eddie- I suggest you direct your concerns to Fianna Fáil head office. If you thought the mess they made could be fixed in two years you were deluded.
Rodrigo -be a good chap and find a dictionary and look up the terms “crime” and “criminal”, would you? Maybe somebody else in the house can explain it to you. As was obvious- talking through your arse.
Vincent – might I suggest that your Party’s mess in a couple of years in recent power – reflected in the incompetence across the Ministerial board , already well exceeds the gross incompetence, even of the cowboy FF Organisation of their gross term!
Vincent Vincent Vincent, fine gael must be dishing out the overtime to keep you here on a Saturday night.
Isn’t ‘Corruption’ a ‘Criminal’ act Vincent?
Dolan I wish we could stick you on a plane and tell you to f*ck off out of here.
Insufferable moron.
Alan- be careful now. You might hurt my feelings. Must be awful to have been brought up so common, was it?
Most of FF’s past Justice Ministers have shown to be utterly corrupt, consistently abused the position for self gain and to protect their party and its members from being held accountable by law.
No one doubts that.
It still does not change the fact that Shatter is also wrong in this regard.
I am struggling for something to say without coming across as Anti Semitic.
You probably just did !
FG will circle the wagons and send out fellow TD’S in support of shatter
The FG Pr machine will kick in via RTE
The story will never gather enough momentum for anything to happen
resign resign resign
what a clown!
“a press conference along with his colleagues Clare Daly TD, Joan Collins TD and Luke Ming Flanagan TD”
That should be the gig of the year, will it be out on dvd ?
the truth should have a meaning and not the cartels gangs PR push overs .THIS republic is of the people for the people and not for the gang that bully from the secrete society gang cartel. Let the truth be told and stop the gagging
Classic Willie :D
The ULA is a clown act that’s preventing a real alternative to FG/Labour coming up from the grassroots. Is it too much to ask for a proper opposition to the government with proper policies? This trio only serve to do the almost impossible and actually make the government look good.
Some country.
Privacy policies data protection all wiped out by the Minister for Justice
Wait till monday folks…. He will be out he door by friday… Primetime investigates exposė on the Lariam debacle in the Defence Forces.
It would be good if the truth were told on all in the Dail.
It should be up public information whether its Wallac’s tax or Shatters tax, whether its penalty points for either of them. All should be transparent.
It would also be good if the people who seek truth had the courage to be honest about their own identities. It has to start somewhere. Your point is valid.
This man has embarrassed the government for long enough..can not believe they are giving this man so much free reign..he is a disaster and a disgrace and should never be allowed speak in public again….
Yesterday Alan Shatter, with his usual swagger, said he would do everything to defend the good name of the Gadai. Could he have done anymore more by his words to damage the reputation of the force and make them look totally unprofessional?
I’d put a few bob in if Mick wants to sue!!
TAKE A FOCKING HINT SHATTER,
GO!!!!
Shatter, in the news everyday and for all the wrong reasons!
..take them jack boots off minister, give your pointed hooves a rest, it must be hot down there with all those poor souls..
Of course Sinn Fein jump straight at another opportunity to criticise without offering anything of note or substance to the issue.
How can people actually fall for their blatant opportunism and populist rhetoric?!
Plenty of people have laid out quiet clearly the laws and procedures that Shatter needs to be investigated regarding.
Your tribal drum beating just damages FG’s integrity and shows the electorate that FG members are like FF’ers. Loyal to a party man over the country and electorate.
Wait a second now Richie, I’m certainly not pro FF or FG, and I too believe Shatter should resign for this action.
What I was saying was that SF are political exploitationists who have zero shame and will never let an opportunity to advance their cause go. I’m not FF or FG, but I’m anything before I’ll support that despicable lot.
I don’t like shatter in the least…but what a shower of lying c€&(ts to day they havnt benefitted from the Garda points systems. Wallace, Flanagan eyc. Shudnt be considered in the dáil except as a shower of w&@!2:rs who are wasting tax-payer money
Every week some pokitican is called on to resign for one reason or another. If they were all to resign when called on to do so can you imagine how much more money would need to be put into their pension pot.
Every week? Are you on drugs?
I don’t think Shatter should resign, he should however be investigated and if shown to have broken the law he should be sentenced.
He has given no statement on how he did not break the law in this.
Minister Shatter has circumvented the Justice System. His position is untenable now. But in Irish politics it seems slander and corruption are acceptable.
WHY because he might let loose what some of the other dirty corrupt bastards are doing no wonder we are the laughing joke of the world
This Shatter fellow is upsetting the whole country. I’m beginning to like him.
I’m no fan of shatter, but in fairness mick Wallace sitting there feeling mortified over shatters comments was brilliant. Why does ‘classified’ information only count when it’s embarrassing another political party or candidate. If fianna fail come out defending it, you know its bullshit. Cowan was infamous for not wanting it and everyone hated him so….
Shatter isn’t a fan of the law or its impartiality.
While that is not that unusual in an Irish Justice Minister it is still not tolerable.
Yes this is exactly what we should be concentrating on !! The country has no other issues !!
The country can multitask and having a Minister for Justice that possibly acts outside of the Law is a very big concern for most people.
Shatter has given no statement to restore people’s faith in him. I therefore cannot trust him or feel that the Justice Dept. is led by a fit person.
Shatter……..someone quoted a few years back “our man in the dail” enough said…kick him out !!!
You probably just did.
Let us hope Mr.Shatter does the right thing.
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