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Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Why is the Minister sitting on the Tim Dalton report, so to speak, and when will it become public? As a result of the report, does he envisage changes to the board of Bord na gCon? On promised legislation and against the background of the indolent reply from the Minister for Finance on "Questions and Answers" and the Taoiseach's confused response yesterday, will the Government introduce...

Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am delighted to see the Minister disports himself so frequently on the greyhound tracks of Ireland. It is plain to see that he has not got a great deal else to do, but——

Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: On a very serious matter, will the legislation to prevent the trafficking or women come before the House this session or this year?

Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will let the Minister go on a high note and ask him an easy question. When will he get the Shamrock Rovers stadium up and running in Tallaght?

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the implementation to date of An Agreed Programme for Government. [17141/06]

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Has An Agreed Programme for Government been renegotiated at any stage since it was promulgated? Can the Taoiseach be satisfied with the progress of implementation of the programme for Government given the spectacle on view last night in an excellent "Prime Time Investigates" television programme? Is he satisfied to be the Head of a Government which has stood idly by for nine years while the...

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am trying to establish whether the agreed programme we thought we had is still valid.

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach not the head of Government? After five years in Government, did he not decide with great fanfare that 3,000 additional beds would be put into the system? Was this not the cornerstone of the health programme? He now states he is not an expert and does not know the answers and that people are carrying out studies. The previous Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin,...

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Were the scenes of acute distress that we saw on television last night and the statement by a senior citizen that he would rather die than go back into——

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is a general question.

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am merely illustrating the accident and emergency department situation via the experience of the man who said he would rather die than return to it.

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is it not the case that there is no point in confusing day care patients with people who present at accident and emergency units?

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Yes. The question all Deputies sought to ask today is whether the core commitment to provide additional bed capacity is still Government policy. To anyone listening to the Tánaiste last night and various public statements on behalf of the HSE, it would seem perfectly clear that it is no longer Government policy to provide those beds. While there was a commitment to provide community care or...

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Did it mean anything? Was promising 3,000 additional beds a con on the Irish people? Nine years later——

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: If anything is repetitive, it is the failure year after year to correct the accident and emergency situation.

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The failure of the Government to deal with the accident and emergency situation is repetitive.

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am trying to establish whether there is a commitment to honouring the pledge of 3,000 more beds in the system given to the Irish people.

Leaders' Questions. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Last week I asked the Taoiseach if it was not the case that the decentralisation programme announced by the then Minister, former Deputy McCreevy, had run aground and the Taoiseach denied it. Three days later he contrived an interview in which he announced the climb-down. This programme was to be the major plank of this Government's term of office and involved the biggest relocation of civil...

Leaders' Questions. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There were so many.

Leaders' Questions. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: At the weekend, I saw the Taoiseach paying tribute to his predecessor, Mr. Haughey. If Mr. Haughey had uttered the misleading statements to the House that the Taoiseach habitually utters, people would have been marching on the streets. I wrote down what the Taoiseach just said. He said, "All the civil servants in the various areas are moving". In what kind of parallel universe is the...