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Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to raise the topic of Deputy Brennan, Minister for Social and Family Affairs. Does anyone on the other side of the House know his whereabouts and how he is? The Taoiseach sent him out last Tuesday to present a press conference about the coming Ard-Fheis and the man was but a pale shadow of himself, so shocked was he at the policy platform put forward by this side of the House. The...

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Then looking into the camera, as only the Minister, Deputy Brennan, can do, with all that sincerity, he described himself as "alarmed" at what was happening on this side of the House. Deputy Mulcahy is also absent. He said: "I urge the Taoiseach to stand firm; no tax cuts and no more spending to put the economy at risk". I saw Deputy Mulcahy on the screen before my eyes on Saturday night,...

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Affected me — I had the best craic of my life.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach must be touched to announce a package like that.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Anybody who is sane would not do so.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach must be touched.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank the Taoiseach for his kind compliments. Will he answer the questions for a change? What is the cost of this Niagara of destruction? What is the cost of undermining the social insurance fund? What is the cost of the damage he has done to the confidence of the Minister, Deputy Brennan? A woman came up to me on the street yesterday and told me that, like myself, she was watching the...

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: At the end of all of that, the Taoiseach had time to visit the recycling centre. However, he could not identify the recycling centre to which he went. He certainly goes a long way to recycle when he visits facilities in Drogheda and Wexford. I presume he puts the material to be recycled into the boot of his ministerial Mercedes because he does not have a car of his own and does not drive....

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I asked the Taoiseach to provide costings.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is not doing so.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: At least I was in the trade union movement.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Of course, the Taoiseach was not in it. He used to turn up when everything had been resolved in order to claim the credit. I remember that well.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: There are only sitting three days left until Easter. It will get better.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: That is utterly untrue.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach would love me to get my hands on them in conjunction with him. That is the problem.

Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: On that note, is it appropriate behaviour for the Tánaiste who would not permit adequate time to facilitate scrutiny of the Bill to ostentatiously engage in doing a crossword puzzle? When the time came to put the Bill to the House, his benches could not muster a quorum. He has demonstrated contempt for the House in his treatment of it. He thinks we should rubber stamp the proposals he...

Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: If I am, I have every confidence the Ceann Comhairle will bring me back to the point. There are seven lists of amendments to the Bill and we were required to give notice of our amendments before Second Stage was finished. That is defended as an acceptable way of bringing legislation through the House. It is not acceptable. Frankly, it is shocking that having arranged a shadow sitting on...

Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to be associated with the generous but well-merited remarks of Deputy Kenny towards the Taoiseach for his patient involvement in bringing about the situation from which it is hoped there is no turning back. As the Taoiseach knows we are all out and about and I wish to ask him about questions I am being asked. Is there even the remotest prospect of legislation being enacted by this...

Written Answers — Broadcasting Services: Broadcasting Services (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will publish the Deloitte and Touche and William Fry report on the future of TG4; the way he envisages TG4 will be financed in the long-term; the current arrangements for the independence of TG4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11344/07]