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Code of Conduct for Office Holders. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Can the Taoiseach never answer a straightforward question?

Code of Conduct for Office Holders. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I can rhyme off half a dozen of them the Taoiseach told me in the past two weeks.

Code of Conduct for Office Holders. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach told me there were 91 labour inspectors when there were 30.

Code of Conduct for Office Holders. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Five minutes ago, in answer to a perfectly harmless question, the Taoiseach told me that the Bill was in the Seanad and that it would come back here for enactment.

Code of Conduct for Office Holders. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Can you give me an appropriate term, a Cheann Comhairle?

Code of Conduct for Office Holders. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: There are analogous terms that are stronger.

Code of Conduct for Office Holders. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: What the Taoiseach told me was not in accordance with the facts, and that is not for the first time.

Code of Conduct for Office Holders. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I withdraw the word "fib".

Code of Conduct for Office Holders. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is responsible for his answers here, however.

Code of Conduct for Office Holders. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: That is the Taoiseach's answer now, but it is not what he said earlier.

Code of Conduct for Office Holders. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach did not say that; he said the Bill was in the Seanad and had started there.

Code of Conduct for Office Holders. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: My second question related to packing State boards.

National Security Committee. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Security Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8363/07]

National Security Committee. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: In this regard, is the threat from terrorist groups more extensive than we are being told or is there another explanation for the frequency of resort to examining telephone records by the Garda Síochána, given the revelation some time ago that in 2006 alone there were 10,000 such requests by the Garda? This seems to be an extraordinary high number of such examinations by the Garda. Does...

Programmes for Government. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8362/07]

Programmes for Government. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach saying that the nurses' dispute may be resolved only within the benchmarking system? There are many big ticket items in the programme for Government that have not been achieved. However, there is one that was not in the programme but the Government seems hell-bent on achieving it, judging by the pressure being applied to professionals to sign off on contracts for the building...

Programmes for Government. (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach was in mid-reply.

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I am conscious that this is the Taoiseach's last time, perhaps ever, to answer Leaders' Questions.

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I know how important the meeting with Dr. Paisley and Mr. Adams is in the morning, although it is regrettable it was not possible to schedule it around Leaders' Questions. I will make one last attempt to ask the Taoiseach, as Head of Government, whether he will cause these contracts to be signed to build super, private clinics on the campuses of public hospitals. I have been getting a...

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I am glad I had finished the quote then. That quotation is fairly representative of the view of health professionals in nursing and other white collar professional grades, consultants and doctors. Last week I quoted for the Taoiseach the statement on behalf of accident and emergency consultants who said that not only would we have a two-tier health system but we would also have a two-tier...