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Legislative Programme. (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The question refers to the Taoiseach's legislative priorities as Head of Government. The Ceann Comhairle always takes the narrowest possible interpretation.

Legislative Programme. (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: With all due respect, Sir, it was a very important question and nobody on this side complained about the duration of the discussion. The least the House can do if we are to amend the Constitution is to spend adequate time——

Legislative Programme. (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: It is not a question of a good innings. I resent that language.

Legislative Programme. (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputies are trying to tease out an important issue. The Ceann Comhairle appears to believe he is conferring some latitude on us because we want to query an important question on the Constitution.

Legislative Programme. (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Time and again the Ceann Comhairle's interpretation is as narrow as he can possibly make it.

Food Industry. (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The word processor is a great thing.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: He launched more programmes than Cleopatra.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Let the record show that I meant Helen of Troy. I was always beguiled by Liz Taylor. Will the Taoiseach respond to recent newspaper statements to the effect that estate agents and auctioneers propose to increase their fees by 33% as a result of the apparent slowdown of price acceleration in the housing market? Specifically on behalf of the auctioneers, a gentleman called Mr. Fintan McNamara...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Of all the rambling, meandering, irrelevant answers that the Taoiseach has ever given in the House, that is the worst of them.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Bill to deal with management companies, which we have raised on these benches so many times, has got absolutely nothing to do with the Taoiseach's friends in the auctioneering business. A Bill has been promised by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform for five years to deal with the regulation and licensing of auctioneers. There is no sign of it and no prospect of it coming...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: A very eminent Member of the other House wrote an article recently about how to become a member of the auctioneers' association. He is now trading, although I do not know if he is doing any business. He says that as long as one pays a bond of €12,700 and one does not have a police record, one can start out as an auctioneer. In his article, he states: Today I can advertise as an...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: That is the actual situation. There is no regulation and there is no licensing. Judging from what the Taoiseach has said, he has no intention of sending the Competition Authority after these guys. This is a disgrace. After all the money that has been creamed off in the last 15 years, they are threatening to put up fees by 33% because the price of houses will not rise at the same rate as...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Where is the Bill on the list?

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I raised this matter with the Tánaiste last Thursday, when two Bills were to be withdrawn, the Comhairle (Amendment) Bill and the Money Advice and Budgeting Service Bill, which would assist very poor people in getting access to credit and money advice. There is now only one Bill to be withdrawn, although there were two on Thursday. Why is that? Overworked journalists have not had an...

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: It will be there for the next five.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: He is certainly concerned about it.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach say whether the Minister for Health and Children was aware of the loophole that has been revealed regarding health insurance and new entrants?

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: When will the promised amending legislation be brought before the House? The matter we have just discussed, the regulation and licensing of auctioneers and estate agents, is not on the schedule of promised legislation for the current session. Will that legislation be brought before the House before the Government goes on pension? My third question is about the referendum. The Taoiseach...

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: That is an important matter. The Taoiseach certainly left the impression that the Government had dealt with this matter today——

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Is it the position now that the Government is contemplating running an omnibus referendum in all probability before the general election, but the text is not yet agreed or approved by Government?