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Departmental Expenditure. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach should not be too hard on himself.

Departmental Staff. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff broken down by grade in private offices and constituency offices in respect of himself and each Minister of State within his Department; the annual costs in terms of salaries and expenses of each such office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38686/06]

Departmental Staff. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will repeat my question. While I accept the Taoiseach has a huge constituency workload, is it not the case that he has an extravagant array of staff to back him up? Such a facility is not afforded to the rest of us in any fashion. I note the Taoiseach said he has cut back on his level of staffing. The Taoiseach referred to the appointment of a personal tipstaff. Was that always there?...

Departmental Staff. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not think eight people in the Taoiseach's constituency office is enough with other candidates coming to him for help. I do not know how he does it.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: This low tax Government will tax us from beyond the grave. I want to raise the issue of an innocent young plumber's assistant who was murdered today in broad daylight. This case follows a situation when, four days ago, a post office worker was shot dead on the streets of Kilkenny during an armed robbery. Three weeks ago a young, separated mother was shot on her own doorstep. A few months...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach may well say we have plenty of laws but the average, law abiding citizen is concerned that we have plenty of deaths as well, plenty of killings, a huge increase in the crime wave, falling detection rates and communities ravaged by drugs and drug pushers. That is the reality. When we think about the cliché uttered by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform wanders from one radio studio to another——

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ----advising on anything that happens to come up and not attending to his primary duty to protect the safety of citizens in their places of work and homes.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Last week the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children put through the Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006, which permits nursing homes to cause clients to sell their family home. He said he had no flexibility on this and he was doing so on the instruction of the Cabinet and on the advice of the Attorney General. There is now statutory underpinning to force the...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach says it is wrong that, at present, people may be forced to remortgage or sell the family home. That is exactly what the Government is providing for with the action it has taken. If the Taoiseach wants to say it went through the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party and that Members were fully aware of what they were doing, so be it.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The situation is clear in terms of the price that will now be paid for the scheme, so I will only summarise it. With regard to the Taoiseach's remark about the regulations introduced by Deputy Howlin when he was a Minister in 1993 in the aftermath of the gutting of the health services by the outgoing Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government, the regulations introduced were consistent...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Age Action Ireland states: Older people, many of whom have paid their taxes for 40 years, did so in the belief they had a social contract with the State which included provision for their basic health needs. That contract cannot now be torn up. In many cases, older people have spent their entire savings to pay their nursing home bills and their home is their last asset. Age Action Ireland...

Northern Ireland Issues. (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a copy of the report of the sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights into the Barron report on the bombing of Kay's Tavern and other incidents; the action he has taken arising from the report; if he has plans to raise the report with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair; and if he will...

Northern Ireland Issues. (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his meeting on 30 November 2006 with relatives of those who died in the Miami Showband massacre. [41615/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a request from Mr. Paddy MacEntee for a further extension of the deadline for the completion of his investigations into aspects of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; if it is intended to grant the request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42516/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not wish to go back over this territory, but does the Taoiseach have an accord with Mr. MacEntee? This is the seventh deferral. I am sure he has very good reasons for asking for a deferral, but is the February deadline likely to be met on this occasion? No member of the loyalist paramilitaries has ever been charged with atrocities committed south of the Border. Given that an...

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I agree with Deputy Kenny that the notion of a window dressing week in January is entirely unacceptable. At the last count, I understand that 11 guillotines will have operated this week. This is against the background in which the House was suspended three times in this term. It is now proposed that the House should return without an Order of Business, parliamentary questions, Adjournment...

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Let me join the Taoiseach and Deputy Kenny in thanking the Ceann Comhairle and all the staff across the Houses for their unfailing courtesy and contribution throughout the year. I wish them and their families a very happy Christmas. That wish is also extended to all my colleagues. The spirit of Christmas has clearly already descended on the Taoiseach — he has been so inclusive that there...

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Whatever the outcome of the election, I hope we are all well and alive to see it.

Community Development. (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on whether the RAPID programme has received sufficient resources to allow it to fulfil its mandate towards Ireland's most disadvantaged communities; his further views on whether a new programme is required to target the small number of areas here where deep-seated poverty remains a serious problem; if he is...