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Written Answers — Defence Forces Deployment: Defence Forces Deployment (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Defence if Irish troops are deployed on the border with Northern Ireland; if so, the number of troops deployed; if it is intended to discontinue the deployment of such troops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23730/06]

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent meeting of the cross-departmental team on housing, infrastructure and public private partnership; when the next meeting is due; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23349/06]

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Like many motorists, I am intrigued by the question Deputy Kenny raised. Is it not the case that the penalty points system will exacerbate this because the trucks emerging from the tunnel have to cross to the left lane. Will the effect of this not be that the traffic will be backed up to Whitehall? Is it true that, due to the absence of provision of certain safety mechanisms for the release...

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The tunnel's traffic could come out on the inside lane.

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The two tunnels come out on the middle of the road——

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——and one must cross the lanes to get into the left lane.

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is easily known that the Ceann Comhairle takes the new route to Monaghan.

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What is the Taoiseach's reply on whether the tunnel will function at 20% of its capacity?

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: At what percentage does the committee consider the tunnel will work?

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Do we know what will be the number of vehicles per hour as a percentage of capacity?

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: A Cheann Comhairle——

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the apparent disintegration of the Government and what signal that sends out to those hard-working families who are on the road at 6.30 a.m. How can those people expect a divided, dysfunctional and out of touch——

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——Government in which Ministers, even in the same party, will not talk to each other and whose backbenchers are in revolt, to address the issues of concern to them?

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Ahern, want to make his maiden speech at this juncture? If he wants to make an intervention, he should make it properly and I will give way to him.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: People are interested in whether their children will get a place in school this autumn. They are concerned about class sizes or their mother being left on a hospital trolley. They are concerned about the drugs misuse epidemic, now worse than it was when Veronica Guerin was murdered. They are concerned about energy resources, spiralling house prices, inflation, interest rates, neighbourhood...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach will now be a member of the back bench committee in revolt. Just because we have enjoyed more than a dozen years of economic growth, the Taoiseach is of the view no problems need be attended to. Of course, we have enjoyed a dozen years of growth, but we have serious problems that must be confronted. Judging from the Taoiseach's response to Deputy Kenny, his view of the authors...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Half of what the Taoiseach told Deputy Kenny about medical cards and other issues is not in accordance with the facts. To dismiss the authors of a report that claims the health service is second only to Lithuania and argue they are talking through their hats shows the Government is simply out of touch, especially when one considers the large amounts of money pumped into the system after nine...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach needs a rest. He instanced decisions taken when I was at the Cabinet table, but I remind him that last week he eulogised a man with whom he shared the Cabinet table, who shut 22 hospitals between 1987 and 1989. I am not sure what a stroll down memory lane does to address the issues confronting people today. The Taoiseach is fearful about what will happen to the country when I...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: We will leave the hyena laughs out of it for the moment. I will return to the issues about which the backbenchers are concerned. It is clear that they are the same issues I have been raising in this House, which, according to their spokesman, they bring to parliamentary party meetings and, to quote him: "they never get any further". Now the Taoiseach is trying to tell us he welcomes this...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Everybody knows that the outsourcing of such a job must be certified by the European Commission. Now the Government finds it cannot make the payments and it must go back to the drawing board. The Government appears unable to make any simple decision or do any of the simple things well. When that happens to a Government, the best thing the Taoiseach can do if he is really concerned about the...