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Leaders' Questions. (13 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Mr. Ahern is the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions. (13 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am asking the Taoiseach the question.

Leaders' Questions. (13 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is the Head of Government, but he refuses to answer the central question. The Minister has based his justification for what he did on his belief there was a threat to our democratic system and institutions. I and Deputy Kenny asked the Taoiseach what was that threat, but he evaded the answer. The Tánaiste is on the record as saying that the Centre for Public Inquiry was...

Leaders' Questions. (13 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: There must be quite a few such bogus applications. People have done many things with passports. There is no connection.

Leaders' Questions. (13 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: What did the Taoiseach do about that? We still know as little about it as we did then.

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: If a doubt now exists whether the Morning Star hostel was subject to State inspection, surely there must be some way for the Government to intervene——

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am grateful to the Ceann Comhairle. There must, however, be some way to end the punishment being inflicted on the woman outside the gates of Leinster House at this time of year.

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Government intend to proceed with legislation to establish a statutory press council?

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (13 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am introducing this Bill because of particular concerns about a pending inquest but there are far wider implications. I am grateful to the Government, especially the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, for agreeing to facilitate its speedy passage before Christmas, for reasons with which we are both familiar. It says something...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (13 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions that have taken place between his Department, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and FÁS regarding the proposed acquisition by FÁS of a new premises in Birr, County Offaly, as part of the Government's decentralisation programme; the conditions that have been attached by his Department to the provision of finance to...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (13 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 122: To ask the Minister for Finance further to his proposals to decentralise sections of his Department to Tullamore and Kildare, the staff numbers proposed to be decentralised to each location; the number of existing staff within his Department who have indicated their willingness to move to the new locations with the current jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I join with Deputy Kenny and the Taoiseach in paying tribute to the patient and diligent work of the Labour Relations Commission in apparently securing a settlement of the Irish Ferries dispute. However, I would be very cautious about claiming this as a great achievement for social partnership. The minimum wage, we are told, will now apply on the vessels and 97% of the workers will be made...

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: If the Taoiseach does not want 23 questions, I will ask him one. Will anybody be held accountable for this mess or will it follow the long line of examples where nobody in the Government is held responsible for anything? A junior Minister might go for a few cans of Dulux paint but he was working for Ministers who have spent and wasted so much money that one cannot add enough noughts to it....

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: This was not another vanity project like those proposed by the Ministers, Deputy Cullen and Deputy Noel Dempsey, or the Taoiseach's own intimations of grandeur at Abbotstown. It happened because of the absence, as the Comptroller and Auditor General's report stated, of any clear goals being set down. The report stated: "Business transformation projects demand a clear and consistent...

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Did he read anything to do with this project? Is anybody ministerially accountable for the loss of €195 million? It is a disgrace but the Taoiseach shows no appreciation that taxpayers do not want their hard earned euro spent and wasted in this fashion by the Government.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Did the Taoiseach not hear the Minister on radio this morning?

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I sometimes think the Taoiseach operates in a different reality. Trying to spread the blame as if somebody on this side of the House is responsible beggars belief.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Paragraph 3.33 of the report states: "The Health Boards Executive was established in February 2002 and, from that point on, the project's overall policy direction, resourcing and monitoring was overseen by HeBE and the Department". Where was the Minister?

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: A sum of €195 million was spent. This was the setting down of goals, the lack of clarity which the report discusses. The Taoiseach talks now of a shoestring. Deputy John Brady should take it easy. He can make his maiden speech in a moment.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach talks of a shoestring. A sum of €37 million was paid to Deloitte & Touche, with the State taking the risk. The company has the brass neck to issue a statement today. How many of the Government Members have read it? The company took us for a ride for €37 million and it has issued a patronising condescending statement today about what a good job it has done, and how it could...