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Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am telling the Ceann Comhairle why I oppose taking these two items.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: We did it for the Taoiseach in January 1999.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It would be a mistake for us to nod through No. 10, referral to joint committee, or indeed the referral to select committee on the Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War when there are explosive remnants lying around that ought properly be debated in the national Parliament.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am delighted to see the Ceann Comhairle back with us, safe and well but one ought to be permitted to explain why——

Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am speaking to it. I am saying why it is not appropriate that we should proceed to dispose of these matters as is proposed.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The necessary procedural order to implement the precedent of 1997 and 1999 ought to be afforded the House so we have an opportunity to discuss the very serious issues to which the Taoiseach's interview yesterday give rise.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: A brief period of questions and answers after the end of a round of statements would be appropriate in the circumstances.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: When there is a resignation from high office but the Minister continues to serve in the Department of Health and Children, it is not easy to respond to it. I thank the former Tánaiste for her courtesy during her time there and for her service. The new Tánaiste has an eye to history and he has an opportunity to be the shortest lived Tánaiste in the history of the State. Is it proposed to...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (27 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason no new hospital consultants have been appointed in 2006; if this is the result of her failure to deal with the ongoing dispute over the hospital consultants contract; the steps she intends to take to provide the hospital consultants that are needed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29551/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1012: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 will be awarded the respite care grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28884/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1034: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if there are any circumstances where a person who does not have the required number of days on a relevant social welfare payment will qualify for the back to education allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29818/06]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (27 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1295: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 745 of 4 July 2006, if she will provide the information previously sought as to whether her attention has been drawn to the accommodation problems in this school and the consequences for children as young as four years of age; if she is in effect instructing the school not to enrol pupils while...

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will take my turn if that is acceptable to the Ceann Comhairle.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not accustomed to the Ceann Comhairle berating me into speaking, but in the circumstances and now that the Chair has called me I will try to think of something to say. I certainly do not know under what Standing Order the Chair has made this decision. I take this opportunity to extend my congratulations to the Tánaiste on his appointment and to wish him well. Any morning one wakes...

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What arrangements does the Tánaiste proposes to permit the House to discuss the issues about which we have all been talking outside the House? He did not answer any questions, including Deputy Gormley's. What arrangements does he offer the House to debate these issues?

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I asked what arrangements have been made for a debate. I cannot believe this is the same Deputy McDowell who came into the House on the Opposition side and called for accountability and standards for many years.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is almost beyond belief that we are forced to listen to a patronising explanation of the normal business of the House, telling us what time questions are taken, how to table them etc. It is contemptuous of this House.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will ask the Tánaiste again, because he is taking the Order of Business.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: We want to know when there will be an adequate ventilation in this House of the issues that are in the public domain.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste is in charge. He said his party would be radical or redundant. It is manifestly redundant now.