Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

How can the Taoiseach boast about the merits of it to the disabled when the fact is that the pool is not equipped to cope with many people with disabilities? Along with many of my colleagues, I had to make representations on behalf of a special needs school in my constituency. This is another case of gross incompetence, tax avoidance and waste of taxpayers' money. Ever since this project was embarked upon it proved to be haunted by bad judgment, bad decision making, bad building and bad decisions as regards the operation and its administration. Tremendous tax advantages have been conferred on a businessman whosever tent he is going into. How can the Taoiseach justify that? The Taoiseach, the Minister for hanging pictures and the Minister for Finance are now seeking retrospective justification in legislation currently before the House that asks the House to treat them as having the powers as if they had them at the time.

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