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Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has answered so comprehensively that I cannot think of another question.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: On my behalf and on behalf of the Labour Party, I join Deputy Kenny and the Taoiseach in paying tribute to our late colleague, former Deputy Larry McMahon, and in offering sincere condolences to his family. I agree with everything Deputy Kenny and the Taoiseach have said about Larry McMahon's qualities, his commitment to public life and the fervency with which he held his views and argued his...

Order of Business. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will arrangements for discussion of the Neary report be announced this week? Did the Taoiseach see the report in The Sunday Tribune last weekend claiming that the register of electors is inaccurate by up to 860,000 people? Since I previously raised the matter, has the Taoiseach given any consideration to when proposals should be made by the Minister and whether these will include legislation?...

Written Answers — Proposed Soccer Stadium: Proposed Soccer Stadium (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will expand on recent comments that he views the development of a stadium for soccer exclusively as a preferable option for the new stadium for Shamrock Rovers in Tallaght; if he will withhold funding for the new stadium if it is also to be used for hosting Gaelic games; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8188/06]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (2 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 35: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the recently published NESF report on care for the elderly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8560/06]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (2 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she intends to bring forward the promised medical practitioners Bill in view of the decision of the Medical Council to proceed with competence assurance measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8562/06]

EU Summits. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received the agenda for the forthcoming March EU summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5497/06]

EU Summits. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach his priorities for the forthcoming March EU summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5498/06]

EU Summits. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the outcome of his meeting with the Prime Minister of Croatia on 3 March 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9019/06]

EU Summits. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach aware of an initiative among the member states under the umbrella of the Party of European Socialists culminating in a petition to President Barroso about the trafficking of women into Germany in advance of the World Cup for the purposes of prostitution, degradation and so on? Will the Taoiseach lend the support of the Government to the initiative to cause member states to...

EU Summits. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: In addition to the description given by the Taoiseach, I have encountered workers willing to work excessive overtime hours without being paid or without being paid overtime rates.

EU Summits. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That is also a factor and some colleagues in the media may be interested in examining this. I refer to a report received yesterday which I presume is an assessment of progress on the Lisbon Agenda by the Taoiseach's Department. Will he indicate whether any unique Irish proposals on the question of the Lisbon Agenda will be advanced at the summit?

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is it not the case that there has been complacency at the heart of this Government, and so long as gangsters were killing each other it did not matter? I warned several times on these benches that the day would come when such gangsters would turn their weapons on innocent citizens. That is what has occurred. Thugs refused admission to a private party came back and casually discharged a...

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Apparently the Judiciary is to blame.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That is a travesty of the truth and the Taoiseach knows it. There is a mandatory life sentence for murder currently. When the Taoiseach states, in replying to Deputy Kenny, that a life sentence is for life and should be so, who changes this? The Taoiseach does, not members of the Judiciary. It is an administrative and political decision for early release. It is not a decision of the Bench.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach knows this is a complete misrepresentation. The Taoiseach is coming along as a sort of casual observer. It is as if he was coming along O'Connell Street, hearing that there were barrels down the back containing petrol bombs. The word was going around the Taoiseach's constituency that hooligans were going to mount an assault the next day. This was if he was an ordinary man on the...

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There were some 75 murders with guns between 1998 and 2004. Proceedings were initiated in just 26 cases, or 35% of these. Convictions were recorded in 12 cases, or 16%. That is the performance. The Taoiseach should not give figures for arrests over drug abuse or other crimes. The figures I have mentioned are prosecutions and convictions. Some 12 of 75 murders with weapons between 1998 and...

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Newspaper headlines from 2003 state that "McDowell will double prison term for killers". Another from 2003 states that "McDowell says gardaí have not enough powers," while others state "McDowell says victory despite gang murders" and "McDowell says last sting of the dying wasp". This is the record. What occurred in Coolock, where an innocent civilian lost her life, is the responsibility of...

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I cannot believe that within 24 hours the Taoiseach has denied the spin he put on events yesterday.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Let me quote from RTE today.