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FIANNA FÁIL has tabled a Dáil motion of no confidence in the Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter.
The motion will be debated by TDs next Tuesday and Wednesday, with a final vote on Wednesday evening.
Fianna Fáil’s justice spokesman Niall Collins said Shatter’s position had become untenable following his disclosure of a Garda incident involving Mick Wallace.
“The Minister has shown extremely poor judgement of late. In particular, he used private information he received from the Garda Commissioner to undermine an opposition TD on Prime Time last week,” Collins charged this afternoon.
“Minister Shatter’s behaviour last week was frankly a disgrace.
“It was made even worse yesterday when it was confirmed that Minister Shatter decided to keep his own encounter at a Garda checkpoint under cover.”
Shatter is facing separate investigations by the Data Protection Commissioner and the Standards in Public Office Commission over whether it was appropriate for him to be given information about a Garda encounter involving another TD, and whether it was ethical to disclose those details in public.
Collins said all of this had come while Shatter had overseen the closure of 100 Garda stations, forcing morale in the police force to an all-time low, and while the government’s relationship with Ireland’s judges had become so poor that a new forum was needed to mediate between the two.
“All of these actions indicate that the Minster is no longer suitable to be Minister for Justice and Defence,” Collins said.
The motion is unlikely to be passed – Dáil rules are designed to allow the government table a counter-motion, likely to be complementary to Shatter and supporting his performance to date, which will be voted on instead.
This means that Fine Gael and Labour backbenchers, who may have been tempted to back Fianna Fáil’s motion, will not get the opportunity – and will instead be asked to affirm a much more palatable alternative.
Interestingly, the motion affirms no confidence in Shatter in either of his ministerial roles – he holds two, one for Defence and the other for Justice and Equality – and the Dublin South TD would be expected to leave both positions if the motion was passed.
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“We wont leave the euro ” the biggest mistake Cyprus will ever make…….we are all involved in the biggest scam the world has ever seen. People are still sucking it up, we are in dark times and alot worse to come , it is too late for talking all this will end in very bad violence i am afraid. Sorry to burst some fluffy bubbles but this is going to happen.
Get out Cypress – escape the EuroChoke!
Another fire put out…..just waiting for the next one.
they would not accept the harsh terms and got a better offer, so sf were right
What better offer? It’s worse
It’s considerably worse. I think the increase in their corporate tax rate that they agreed ti would work particularly well here. Intel, the Pharamceuticals…basically all the multi-nationals would just love that.
There are not better offers, this EU project is a scam and history will tell the tale when we are all long gone !!!
Let alone the loss of over a weeks economic activity, approximately a 2% drop in GDP automatically compounded by a declining economy where the banking system is seen as being unsafe.
did they take the bailout in june when they were offered? no, did they tax the savings under 100k? no, they got a better offer, keep up the delusion lads
Peasant you’re absolutely delusional yourself. Keep drinking the coolade prescribed by your miseducated mates at the school of conspiracy and woe is me.
They’re stuck in the scam.
They did the right thing and got a good deal for the vast majority.
Trust funds and shares will suffer but who cares really.
Anastiades himself proposed taxing deposits under 100k – not Germany, not France, not Brussels not the Troika. He wanted to keep his buddies in Moscow happy at the expense of his own people.
This is a typical case of a politician backing something in Brussels only to blame it on “Merkel and the Brussels Bureaucrats” once he gets off the plane back home.
Peasant. Please. Educate yourself before posting. I cringe when I read your uniformed nonsense. It was the Cypriot Govt that wanted to tax deposits below the €100k mark- they wanted to protect their Russian friends.
Sorry Fiachra. Should have read your comment!
The only reason we are in a better position is because we aren’t still in free-fall. This has nothing whatsoever to do with fg or eurozone policy. There was always going to be a halt once the critical number of businesses had shut and economic migrants had emigrated. If we were back in the position we were in in 2010 I wonder would you be saying the same thing. Cyprus did not take the deal in June because of the punitive terms, try reading the thread with the blinkers off for once shaw. At least they have the cojones to refuse something because they judge the terms too harsh, not like our grovelling lapdogs.
Peasant, I have a book for you if you want to read it, we used it in first year in college.
“Economics 6th Edition, by Parkin, Powell & Matthews”
“Reflecting the changing world around us, ‘Economics’ brings the subject to life, helping the student separate the wood from the trees in the economic landscape”.
I agree with the foreword, it really would help you separate the wood from the trees and perhaps help you add factual credence to your misinformed, populist and quite frankly untrue rants?
I am always amused when the FG forces of righteousness play the “populist” card.
Do you know what that word means?
I think it’s funny how the keyboard warriors of miseducation, claim logic and reason based in empirical fact as having an agenda tied to a political agenda.
Just because it doesn’t suit your agenda doesn’t mean it’s not true. I have no allegiance to any political party, they’re all a shower of w@nkers FYI.
. A recent publication from two German finance experts Matthias Weik & Mark Friedrich “Der Gröste raubzug der Geschichte” ( The biggest robbery in history ) describes the ongoing rapid transference of wealth from the bottom up to a small elite, in chilling detail. All based on facts. I dont know if its available in English yet
ISBN 978-3-8288-2949-7
382 Seiten, Paperback
Tectum Verlag Amazon 19 Eur.
Of course those who could, withdrew their money in the branches that were open in London & Birmingham
and Moscow and the Cypriots on the Island were left to carry the can. Thats EU justice.
If only Sinn Fein were in Government. We too could be like Cyprus!!!
And i got paid a lot of money to put my country through this…Im merkels new lapdog
They state among other things that Frankfurt has now surpased London with regards to Casino banking. Perhaps Cyprus was offering too much competition ?
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