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Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: There are serious issues surrounding this resignation. The former Minister of State referred to them as bizarre and sinister.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: There are implications that involve other members of the Cabinet, specifically the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Martin.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: No, the House will not sit tomorrow.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: All I am looking for is Government time today——

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——to discuss the issue. That is the only thing I am looking for.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That is the whole point.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The matter has not been dealt with.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The matter has not been dealt with.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I see no point in this House continuing.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I see no point in the House continuing.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I agree with the Taoiseach that no Deputy would want to force another Member of the House to make a personal statement if he or she does not want to do so. I accept that there is a contradiction in a Member being quite happy to make several statements outside the House but not being willing to address the House at all for whatever reason. There is no compulsion on Deputy Callely or any other...

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We know that he had been briefed and that he had the documents. The former Minister of State, Deputy Callely, personally briefed him and briefed the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The issue that arises, which could be resolved outside this Chamber, is the proposal of my colleague, Deputy Broughan, that a 15-minute opportunity be provided to enable the Whips to meet. Provision will have to be made to allow this matter to be debated in so far as it relates to the leadership of the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not calling on Deputy Callely to make a personal statement if he does not wish to make one. Adequate provision will have to be made to allow Members to discuss the issues which arise from this resignation. That is all we ask of the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Do we have an opportunity to reply to the Taoiseach's statement on Deputy Callely?

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Why?

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We sought a debate, a Cheann Comhairle.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I join Deputy Kenny in regretting that the debate on the budget was delayed by the efforts of the House to have the issues surrounding the resignation of the former Minister of State, Deputy Callely, debated.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not see it that way. We did not block the debate but the Taoiseach blocked Deputy Callely from speaking. He was blocked and silenced and that is an important issue. Adversarial politics aside, nobody on this side of the House takes any pleasure from the resignation of an office holder. In this case it is clear the Minister of State resisted resignation because he felt he took the rap on...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister was fully aware of the nursing homes issue and was quite prepared to clock up another hundred million euro of taxpayers' money without acting. When Mr. Pat McLoughlin's legal advice was brought to his attention, he had no argument after that. He should have known about the issue from the extension of the medical card to the over-70s but could not have failed to realise it from...