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Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach referred to people who pay taxes. There are many tax compliant citizens who pay more tax than was bargained for in the budget, but what about the abuse of tax avoidance schemes by super-earners? We have been told for the past five or six years that these loopholes would be shut off. They have not been shut off and the situation is worsening. Ordinary people earning ordinary...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: They are working longer and harder than they ever did before and they want the Government to sort out the hospitals, deal with criminals, drug abuse, anti-social behaviour and the everyday problems they encounter in their communities. Instead of that we get a squabbling Government where in its deepest crisis the Taoiseach fled the country and left them at sixes and sevens. He talks to me...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——and on Wednesday, said it should be 17. The Government is at sixes and sevens on every issue of significance that arises. How can the Taoiseach tell me he is not out of touch?

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The people know he is out of touch and he will find out that sooner or later.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is rattled. It is getting to him.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I hope the Government does. That is the best news I have heard today.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Where? There is no new school in Laytown.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: They do not have a new school.

Order of Business. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I once again ask the Taoiseach why the Government is contriving to wait until the Houses are in recess before publication of long-awaited reports. In particular, what in heaven's name is the reason for the Barr report not being made available? It is not credible to say as the Taoiseach did, presumably in good faith, that it is ready to go to the printers. In 2006, that makes no sense. I...

Written Answers — World Trade Negotiations: World Trade Negotiations (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the content of her recent discussions with the EU Trade Commissioner in relation to the World Trade Organisation arrangements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24614/06]

Written Answers — European Council Meetings: European Council Meetings (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the next Council of European Agriculture Ministers will be meeting; what is on the agenda; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24618/06]

Written Answers — Legal Proceedings: Legal Proceedings (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 154: To ask the Taoiseach the number of extant legal proceedings to which the Attorney General is a party or a notice party in which the constitutional validity or consistency of an enactment has been challenged, indicating the enactments involved and the present stage of those proceedings; the number of those cases in which a Minister of the Government is not also a party,...

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 310: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of meetings of the EU 133 Committee which have discussed issues relating to the ACP-EU Economic Partnership agreements since negotiations were launched on 27 September 2002; the number of those meetings a member of the staff of Irish Aid attended; the grade of those Irish Aid officials who attended; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 314: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the call made by the Irish Commission for Justice and Social Affairs of the Irish Bishops Conference for the Government to pressure the EU and the UN to apply sanctions against the perpetrators of the Darfur conflict; if he will use his offices as a member of the EU and the UN to ensure an increase in the...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: In some of this morning's newspapers, the Government has floated the notion of a constitutional referendum on the issue of child rape. Can the Taoiseach confirm that it is the Government's intention to hold such a referendum? Will the proposed amendment differ from the suggestion made after the recent crisis by the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, that the Constitution would be amended to...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is admitted that the latter legislation is deeply flawed. I would like to ask the Taoiseach about the proposal to introduce a constitutional amendment and about the all-party committee that will examine these matters on the basis of terms of reference which are the subject of a large measure of agreement on all sides of the House. We do not understand how the issues of child rape and the...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach claimed he did not want to go back over the events and then he did just that. He knows well the events are not just disputed by me but by persons outside of the House. He also knows the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform had possession of this information going back to 2002. I am not interested in tracing the history of it. What happened, happened and we are looking...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I know a Cheann Comhairle. You let the Taoiseach go on for about ten minutes. Do you have to interrupt me in mid-sentence?

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: This is a matter of parliamentary accountability. Ideally I would like the matter to be examined by parliamentary committee. However, the Government has steadfastly refused to refurbish the law since the Abbeylara judgment, which was a narrow enough area. Inquiry by parliamentary committee has worked effectively in the past but that option is now unavailable until the Government refurbishes...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Government introduced the law that could allow such a scenario.