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Official Engagements. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Recently in my home village, €15 million in——

Official Engagements. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not.

Official Engagements. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will put the question another way. Does the Taoiseach agree that the Cabinet sub-committee on drugs and social inclusion should meet earlier than 15 November having regard to the seizure of drugs——

Official Engagements. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——with a value of €15 million in Clondalkin and to the alarming fact that the seizure seems to have had no impact on the availability of heroin and other drugs in this city?

Official Engagements. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: In the context of the CSO figures on the worsening drug situation, does the Taoiseach consider that there is a compelling case to bring forward the date of the meeting?

Official Engagements. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Regarding the social inclusion dimension of the matter, have specific proposals relating to money lenders been made by the Minister for Social and Family Affairs?

Official Engagements. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: If we could——

Official Engagements. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Ceann Comhairle must accept that if we are to live within the strictures as he interprets them, there is no point in attending the House.

Official Engagements. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Ceann Comhairle seems to be ruling that the answer to the question is that the Cabinet sub-committee met on 11 October and will next meet on 15 November and no more. We can all go home.

Official Engagements. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Ceann Comhairle must accept that he must leave the Opposition with some little prerogative to table whatever question we believe——

Official Engagements. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That we cannot raise a generic question and hang it on the peg of the question as phrased is absurd and overly restrictive, and makes a nonsense of Taoiseach's questions.

Commissions of Inquiry. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the action he intends to take arising from the Report of Mr. Justice Barron into the Dundalk bombing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28248/06]

Commissions of Inquiry. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I pay tribute to the quality of the work of Mr. Justice Barron. He deserves enormous credit for the detailed report he has published on this occasion. It is in keeping with the painstaking manner in which he has discharged his obligations in terms of the prior reports referred to by the Taoiseach. We ought to consider some way we could appropriately mark his contribution. It has attracted...

Commissions of Inquiry. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I ask the Taoiseach——

Leaders' Questions. (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Mighty Mouse.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: This is Anti-Racist Workplace Week and it is appropriate that the Dáil should mark that. It coincides with the publication of the first major survey, conducted by the ESRI, on the incidence of racism in our society. The survey concludes that the incidence of racism in Ireland is lower than in other European countries, particularly in southern Europe, but the ESRI says there is no reason to...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: In particular, can I ask the Taoiseach about the recommendations in the national consultative committee report, the ESRI report or his own report, where he refers to enhancing the ability of the Garda to combat racist crime? What are the results in that regard? With regard to new recruits, is the intake of non-nationals into the Garda statistically significant? What does the Government...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: In conclusion, the Taoiseach will be aware from the Minister for Education and Science who is sitting beside him that, for example, no matter how many non-national children are in a school, the resource teacher-pupil ratio is 1:14 and a cap of two additional teachers or 28 children is in place. After that the school must make an arbitrary case in the hope it might obtain more specialist...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The additional support for the school is capped at three teachers. Is that not inadequate? Can I ask the Taoiseach——

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (7 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: If the Taoiseach states that 800 teachers are involved in this area, I accept his word, but there is one teacher for every 14 children and two teachers for every 28 pupils, but no more thereafter unless a special case is made. Many schools in different parts of the country, particularly this city, have immensely more than 28 children. In terms of workplace harassment and language training,...