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Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (17 Jun 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 13: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number of new jobs announced during 2003 from new investments or expansion of IDA backed plants; the expected level of announcements during 2004; and the steps being taken to promote job creation. [18085/04]

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department, broken down by grade, who have applied to the central applications facility for transfer to locations outside Dublin under the Government's decentralisation proposals; the likely impact of these transfers on his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21339/04]

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the Taoiseach's Department, as a consequence of the programme generally, taken account of the expert evidence given to the Select Committee on Finance and the Public Service to the effect that this was not a decentralisation programme but is about the dispersal of civil servants, that it has nothing to do with decentralisation which involves devolution of real power? Is he now resiling...

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach agree that Dr. Ed Walsh and Professor Bannon will not take kindly to being described as gombeen men and old-fashioned thinkers?

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not sure there are too many assistant secretaries who want to get out of Dublin to develop their careers. Dr. Walsh and Professor Bannon are experts on the subject and that is the testimony they gave to the committee. It cannot be dismissed with a wave of the hand and a remark about gombeen men because whatever else one might think about Dr. Walsh and Professor Bannon who have spent a...

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is not accustomed to getting help from the Minister for Finance who used to stay in his office.

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister for Finance should let the Taoiseach answer for himself.

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I am glad that Deputy Cowen is back. I missed him.

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I thought the staff in Iveagh House had finessed Deputy Cowen a bit but they obviously have not. When the Taoiseach says there is no departure from the programme as announced is he sticking to the 2007 date? Is he saying there has been no quantification of the cost in his Department of the implications of dispersing civil servants in eight other Departments to 53 locations? Has that aspect...

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: He came from America, not from Dublin.

Leaders' Questions. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach say what the poor people of Ireland did to deserve Deputy Brennan as Minister for Social and Family Affairs? He does not want the job. Clearly he has no interest in it. He got it by accident and poor people who are marginalised and unemployed are now going to have as their advocate and champion at the Cabinet table a man who would prefer to be doing anything else. Did...

Leaders' Questions. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: ——and Deputy McDowell in charge of equality? How can any of that be reconciled? If the Taoiseach believes these Ministers were not performing in their existing Departments, why should anyone believe they will perform in their new Departments? These are the same tired, failed old faces — no change — and the Taoiseach says that by shuffling them around we can somehow expect a better...

Leaders' Questions. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Where does that leave Deputy Conor Lenihan? Is his appointment regularised?

Leaders' Questions. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: If it had not been a constituency colleague of mine I would have raised earlier the improper appointment of Deputy Conor Lenihan. I am glad the appointment has been regularised now and I hope it will not be an impediment to him in any way.

Leaders' Questions. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach not accept that the people behind him, and his colleagues watching on the monitors, are as confused as those of us on this side of the House about the point of the whole exercise? There is neither purpose nor pattern to the reshuffle. It is like a farmer at the cattle mart who goes into the bullpen with the cattle and prods them to move them around. One bullock gets out the...

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: If the Taoiseach cannot give a commitment that he will roster No. 18 for discussion here, I oppose its being taken now without debate. This concerns the ring-fencing of betting tax for the horse and greyhound racing industry, although the tax was reduced from 5% to 2% in 2002. The result is that we have been paying out €56 million each year since then and the Taoiseach intends to provide an...

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not debating the content. I am explaining why I am opposing the taking of it without debate. It is a matter of the most profound significance. It is virtually the only earmarked tax in the country and we are pouring out hundreds of millions to support this industry, not from betting tax, as was intended, but from the Exchequer at a time when 101,000 people are losing their entitlement to...

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Committee of Public Accounts established that there are 11,000 and not 25,000 people involved in the industry.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: When will the Bill to give effect to the referendum on citizenship be brought before the House?

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Will it come before the House as a matter of priority?