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Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 541: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in County Dublin which have 30 or more children; the number of classes in the school which have 28 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4842/07]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 542: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in County Dublin which have 30 or more children; the number of classes in the school which have 28 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4843/07]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 543: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in County Dublin which have 30 or more children; the number of classes in the school which have 28 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4844/07]

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach or any member of his Government have any appreciation of the impact of rising prices at the moment? Did the Taoiseach look at the CSO figures quoted in the Irish Examiner today, which show that food prices have increased by 16%? The article states that 37 of 50 items in the shopping basket have increased "substantially". On top of that the Irish Independent quotes IBEC's...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: When I heard the Minister, Deputy Martin, say that the prices of the shopping basket over the year would fall by somewhere between €500 and €1,000, I should have known that the opposite would have been the case. He is one of these Ministers who, so long as his tie is straight and the script is available from the spin-doctor, out he goes. Anything at all comes off the top of the head....

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: ——on average industrial earnings? This spate of price increases has resulted in a 4.9% rate of inflation. Does the Taoiseach agree with those commentators who suggest that this month inflation could rise to as high as 6%?

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: There is the same absence of foliage on the top of the Minister's head and it has the same colour as anybody on these benches.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not know what the Taoiseach's diet is made up of but we run through the prices as before and after the groceries order. Beef is 10.2% higher, lamb 6.6% higher, pork 1.8% higher——

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: That is one of the most imaginative things to emerge from that side of the House this year. Fish is 24% higher. I do not think the Taoiseach understands what is going on. He speaks about energy prices. A barrel of oil costs $52, the lowest price in 19 months. Anybody who has to go into the petrol forecourt will know that has happened. I know that the Taoiseach and none of the comedians...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach saying that position has changed? Does he intend to take any action having regard to the fact that people have settled for pay increases of 3%, first phase, and 2%, second phase, while the reality is that the European Central Bank has promised to increase interest rates again in March?

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I ask the Taoiseach to deal with the reality of the figures from the CSO.

Social Inclusion. (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on drugs and social inclusion last met; when the next meeting is due to be held [2036/07]

Social Inclusion. (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I refer to the scale of drugs finds over the past year, amounting to approximately €70 million, which is estimated to be only 10% of what is brought into the State and the fact there is no scarcity of drugs, despite the big seizures.

Social Inclusion. (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Given the enormous profits from the drugs trade are——

Social Inclusion. (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I did not ask anything about Cabinet confidentiality.

Social Inclusion. (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: But I did not break any rule yet.

Social Inclusion. (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Chair does not know what is my question.

Social Inclusion. (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: What was it?

Social Inclusion. (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I did not ask a question. I prefaced my remarks about the scale of drug seizures, which represents approximately 10%——

Social Inclusion. (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I frankly admit I intended to break the rules but I had not broken them at the time the Chair intervened.