He was also for many years a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Law Reform and Defence. 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. Amongst his targets was a provision which required a medical prescription to purchase condoms with the prescription designating the monthly number of condoms that could be lawfully purchased.ĭuring the 1980s, Shatter successfully lobbied for the establishment of an Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs. Prior to becoming a member of the Oireachtas, Shatter satirised some of the bizarre measures contained in a government sponsored 1979 Family Planning Bill in a short best seller book, "Family Planning – Irish Style" which contained cartoons by Chaim Factor, a well known artist and sculptor. Whilst it was opposed by the then Fianna Fáil government it laid the foundation for subsequent government legislation. His bill embraced the precautionary principle prioritizing environmental protection principles in government decision making. As Fine Gael’s Spokesperson on the Environment, he published in 1989 Ireland’s first ever legislation to establish an Environment Protection Agency. His Adoption Act 1991 provided for the recognition for the first time of foreign adoptions in Ireland. His Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act 1989, radically reforming Irish family law, was the first piece of legislation enacted by an opposition TD for 35 years. While in opposition, he published more private member's bills than any other TD had done previously. Shatter was a member of Dublin County Council from 1979 to 1999 for the Rathfarnham local electoral area. He was re-elected at the 2007 general election. Shatter was first elected to the Dáil at the 1981 general election, and was re-elected at each subsequent election until he lost his seat at the 2002 general election. The latter is the story of controversies that occurred in the period immediately preceding his resignation from government in May 2014, and the reports into these events. The former is a biography of the years prior to his election as a member of the Irish parliament and their relationship to later events. In 2017, his Life is a Funny Business was published by Poolbeg Press and in 2019 Frenzy and Betrayal: The Anatomy of a Political Assassination was published by Merrion Press. He is also the author of the satirical book Family Planning Irish Style (1979), and the novel Laura (1989).
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Among his professional affiliations, he is a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
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He is a former chairperson of FLAC (the Free Legal Advice Centres), a former chairperson of CARE, an organisation that campaigned for child care and children's legislation reform in the 1970s and a former President of the Irish Council Against Blood Sports. As a politician he played a lead role in effecting much of the constitutional and legislative change he advocated. He is the author of one of the major academic works on Irish family law (1977, 1981, 19) which advocated substantial constitutional and family law reform. As a solicitor he acted as advocate in many seminal and leading cases determined both by the High Court and Supreme Court. Shatter was a partner in the Dublin law firm Gallagher Shatter (1977-2011).
With interests in fifteen properties, Shatter had the largest property portfolio of any member of Ireland's cabinet while a cabinet minister (2011-2014). Shatter has lived most of his life in Dublin he grew up in Rathgar and Rathfarnham and lives now in Ballinteer with his wife, Carol Ann (Danker) Shatter.
In his late teens he worked for two months in Israel on a kibbutz. He was educated at The High School, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and the Europa Institute of the University of Amsterdam.
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