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Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: No. The Taoiseach sought to give the impression that the matter would be dealt with in the House.

Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That is the impression the Taoiseach sought to convey.

Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Where is the question?

Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What is the Taoiseach asking me for? I am the Opposition.

Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has a licence none of his predecessors ever had to get away with conveying the impression to this House that he is doing one thing when in fact he is doing or did the opposite. I do not know how he manages it.

Criminal Prosecutions. (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for calling this matter. Yesterday and this morning I raised questions with the Taoiseach about the collapse of the case against Dermot Laide in the Circuit Criminal Court and the responsibility of Government for the State pathology service. The Taoiseach's replies were his characteristic mixture of evasion and obfuscation. He pleaded that he had not been briefed,...

Criminal Prosecutions. (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: He was not asked any questions of that regard.

Criminal Prosecutions. (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Why was it reported otherwise?

Criminal Prosecutions. (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It was the first item on the news last night and repeated in the broadsheets.

Criminal Prosecutions. (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: They could not all make it up.

Criminal Prosecutions. (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister should not blame us.

Criminal Prosecutions. (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Never mind the wealth tax, can we believe anything from the Department?

Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that 92,000 medicinal products were seized as a result of Irish Medicines Board investigation in 2006; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that the board's enforcement section seized the products following investigations into the illegal sale, importation of...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the ongoing failure to fill the post of chief pharmacist in her Department; her views on the fact that the failure to fill this post leaves a serious vacuum at the heart of decision making on health policy, including public health protection and patient safety; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I note that in the legislative programme for September 2003, the judicial conduct and ethics Bill was promised and the Taoiseach undertook that it would be enacted in 2004. I do not think anybody inside this House or outside it reading this morning's newspapers or listening to the news headlines can be in any doubt about the real urgency that attaches to this Bill. The Minister has said he...

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Surely the evolving jurisprudence is one issue, the question of this Chamber legislating to provide for judicial misbehaviour or misconduct is a separate thing. By all means we should have an eye to the emerging jurisprudence but a Bill promised to be enacted in 2004——

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——is now promised only for publication in 2007.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Minister for Finance inform the House of the whereabouts of the Dalton report?

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I thought the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy O'Donoghue, was bringing it last week.

Written Answers — Refugee Appeals Tribunal: Refugee Appeals Tribunal (27 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 9: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to review the organisation or operation of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15660/06]