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Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Moreover, the same Department and one of the transient Ministers gave a black and white commitment to the people of Cork that they would not be laboured with the debt following the construction of the airport terminal. However, this has all changed. Consequently, in such circumstances, why should motorists accept what the Government is now saying?

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach appears to be holding open the option of a multitolling point as soon as the infrastructure is installed. I presume he refers to the grade separations that must be installed at a number of points along the M50. Why not call the operator's bluff——

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: ——and lift the tolls for the duration of the renovation until the implementation of barrier-free tolling? Why not test the bluff and the engineers' advice? It would be interesting to give motorists some relief for one month by raising the obstacles on that bridge on a trial basis. Such an initiative should be monitored to ascertain the outcome because there will be no relief for the...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The renovation of the M50 itself is under way contemporaneously with these developments. Moreover, the feed of trucks from the port tunnel adds to the congestion.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: As soon as the port tunnel has been built——

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: ——his partner in Government wants to move the port.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: What relief does the Taoiseach offer to motorists for the next 18 months?

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Try it.

Ministerial Advisers. (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the role and responsibility of each of the special political advisers or other non-Civil Service staff appointed by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3858/07]

Interdepartmental Committees. (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made by the cross-departmental team on housing, infrastructure and PPPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3859/07]

Interdepartmental Committees. (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach's description of the construction of health facilities compared to the normal commercial activity involved in the case he cited of a hotel is sobering and dispiriting. If the man who has been Taoiseach for almost ten years tells us that is the stage of desperation he has reached about moving a project like that from conception to execution, it is a poor lookout. I accept there...

Interdepartmental Committees. (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach occasionally indulges in a little reverie so the Ceann Comhairle should allow me to also wander off in a stream of consciousness.

Interdepartmental Committees. (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not disputing it.

Interdepartmental Committees. (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: On the question of PPPs, it was an element of the health strategy that the Government would provide 800 community nursing beds under a PPP. What happened to that commitment, why was it abandoned, has it been abandoned or is it still on course? Is the committee project focused, does it have a role in monitoring the national development plan, or is its approach simply that, for example, metro...

Interdepartmental Committees. (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach did not deal with the question on community nursing homes.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I cannot agree that the issues concerning the protection of children and the issues relating to the rights and welfare of children are intertwined in the sense the Taoiseach suggests.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: When I put this question to him yesterday, I did not understand him to rule it out or to say it was without merit.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: However, having read the newspapers this morning, it seems the Government has since then decided to rule it out, as that seems to be the sentiment attributed to the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan. Given the growing opinion that it is not feasible or wise to have this omnibus referendum this side of the general election, and given the weight of comment from expert opinion in the...

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister came out against it in Wexford.

Civil Unions Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I join my colleagues in thanking Deputy Howlin for authoring the Civil Unions Bill 2006 and bringing it to the House tonight. This is a moment of some historic importance, as legislation of this nature has never before been presented in this Chamber. I thank my colleagues who have contributed for the passion and conviction they have displayed in addressing the central precepts of the...