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Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Ceann Comhairle may as well tell me that I may discuss the issues under No. 26, the Regulation of Charities Bill. Is that what he is going to tell me?

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: We seek a debate, which is why I asked the man sitting at the head of the Cabinet row what arrangements there are for one.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: We may as well deal with it. If we do not, there will be no ploughing championship today. Let us hear the answers. What are the answers?

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste promised a debate.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank the Government Whip for his intervention and accept his word that provision will be made in the schedule next week for an adequate statement and question and answer session on this issue. It is a time-honoured precedent in the House that the Government proposes through the Government Whip the order of the business for the House. The Tánaiste could have done that in the past half...

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Tánaiste be available next week to advise us?

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to introduce a statutory requirement for novice drivers to continue supervised practice and training after they have passed the practical driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30059/06]

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Transport the projected demand for driving tests in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and the basis for his calculation; the projected supply of driving tests in the same period with a breakdown by source; and the way in which he proposes to reduce average waiting periods to below six weeks. [30058/06]

Freedom of Information. (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the number of applications received by his Department to date in 2006 under the Freedom of Information Acts; the number of applications acceded to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30870/06]

Social Partnership Agreements. (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if it is intended to hold quarterly meetings with the social partners to review progress in implementing the ten year programme for social partnership, as was the practice with previous agreements; if so, when the first meeting is likely to be held; the likely agenda for such a meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28240/06]

Allocation of Time: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What did the Taoiseach say to the question raised?

Allocation of Time: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The order before us is only 45 minutes old. We asked the Government last week for time to debate these matters and it refused. The Government came around to a position of offering a paltry 35 minutes in its entirety. The haggling has gone on for the week and 45 minutes before we come into the House, we find the order provides for the Taoiseach to make a statement for 15 minutes but that...

Allocation of Time: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: No, he was not.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is fair to state that the Opposition has shown restraint in the matter of the Taoiseach accepting money for private use while a Minister. However, since Mr. Ahern had created a context that sought to explain the Drumcondra moneys in terms of his private family affairs, common decency required that Opposition politicians should have demonstrated a certain restraint. Today, for the first...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste had better grow accustomed to sitting in silence because after this debacle for the Progressive Democrats, the only question he will be permitted to ask in Cabinet is "An bhfuil cead agam dul amach?". The Tánaiste, Deputy McDowell, sought and got a mandate as moral watchdog on Fianna Fáil in government. He has comprehensively failed his first test and, as he stated, a party...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is on record as saying that he did nothing wrong and he repeated this assertion today. The Progressive Democrats are still happy with the excuse of "if he had the benefit of hindsight" and "it was an error", yet the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, is the only Minister to say that what took place in Manchester was unthinkable. All the other Ministers — Deputies...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: If anything demonstrates why this country needs a change of Government, it is the media parade of the Taoiseach's Ministers blind to standards and defending the indefensible.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: How can the Taoiseach say with a straight face that he could have accepted the money last week and put it into his political account? This is the whole point. If he put it into his political account, he could only use it for political purposes. He did not put it into his political account; he put it into his personal account. Is that not the whole point? Why does the Taoiseach drag this...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——when he said: What happened was that some of my own friends were over there. I think some of them were there. On the one night they collected it. Needless to say, it was not something I asked for. It was totally a surprise to me. It appears the lads collected it, not Mr. Kilroe. I am only quoting the Taoiseach's own words to him. Does the Taoiseach still maintain that The Irish...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has advice now. How can he say it was "off the wall"? I wish to ask a question about the NCB cheque. The Taoiseach informed the House several times that this was a group of friends helping him out at a time of distress. This cheque was a corporate cheque. Has the Taoiseach made any inquiries with NCB about the status of the cheque, about the tax liability attaching to it or...