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Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach saying that 90% of the bidding documents have issued and that they will be back by the time the HSE board meets on Friday week? Does he expect a decision to be made on Friday week? What is the process after that? What is the duration of the lease in question? How does it materially matter if a building is physically constructed for the next 99 years on this scarce public...

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: How can it be argued that these people do not know what they are talking about? It is not a HSE initiative. As recently as 29 March this year, the Minister for Health and Children made a statement in the House and Government backbenchers should read up on it. They cannot go around the doorsteps whispering that this is a Harney-McDowell frolic. The Minister, Deputy Harney, stated, "In July...

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Those are the Minister's words. It was a ministerial instruction. This is Government policy, not a HSE initiative. Will the Taoiseach tell us whether the investors are likely to get the go-ahead at the board meeting on Friday week? What is the position on the consultants' contract? I understand that this relevant aspect of the public-private element of the common contract will emerge...

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The accident and emergency consultants say that.

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: What does the Taoiseach think will happen?

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I ask that the Taoiseach argue with me.

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: That is not the case.

Order of Business (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The final census figures will be published on 26 April. Does the Taoiseach give any credence to the articles published on Sunday and since to the effect that there may be a constitutional problem in calling the election after publication of the final census report? If so, has he taken any legal advice on this issue?

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Transport when the 100 private sector operated buses will be fully deployed and operating in Dublin; and the areas they will serve. [12669/07]

Written Answers — Railway Stations: Railway Stations (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason for the decision to close Cherry Orchard train station in Ballyfermot; and if he will ensure that this is immediately reviewed before the Kildare route project by-passes Ballyfermot. [12658/07]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the policy of his Department in circumstances where a person from outside the EU has been resident here for more than three years, has Irish born children and wishes to be joined by their spouse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12361/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 295: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the condition of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon continues to deteriorate following the postponement of the living kidney transplant operation recently scheduled at Beaumont Hospital; the reason the procedure was delayed; when this crucial procedure will take place; and...

Written Answers — Marine Safety: Marine Safety (3 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 386: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department will accede to a request from the families of persons lost on the Pére Charles to provide funding to allow for a further examination by divers of the sunken trawler, in the hope that the bodies of those lost might be recovered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12952/07]

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: When we were kicked out in 1997, more than 9% of people were unemployed. That was better, however, than the 14.2% who were unemployed in 1992 when the Progressive Democrats Party was kicked out. Deputy Kenny and I may have chalked up 50 years between us but the Tánaiste would be well on the way to that number if his constituents had not given him a long holiday every time they saw his...

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I thought the other man who is usually in that chair would say anything but, by God, he is only in the ha'penny place with this guy. The Tánaiste fed the file into the system. Did he read any of the letters?

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Did he reply to any of the letters?

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste said that ten years ago we did nothing. Those children are aged three and a half and four and a half years. They were not born when we were in government. If the basis of our exchanges are to be what happened ten years ago, from the man who said he would abolish stamp duty because we did not need the resources, what is the point in telling these parents we have the most...

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: ——let alone take any action on it. He has the sheer brass neck to get up here and point the finger at the party that caused the Department of Equality and Law Reform at Cabinet rank to come into existence.

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The first thing the Tánaiste did when he came into office was to abolish it, take it under his own wing, and from that day to this he has not paid the slightest regard to it. What does he have to say to these parents who in desperation gave up their jobs to care for their children with disabilities and who are desperately seeking services which the HSE says are an acknowledged unmet need?

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: He comes in here trading political insults as if we were back in the literary and historical society. When will the Tánaiste take his responsibilities as Minister seriously and give us less of the rhetoric and bombast and tell the mothers of these children when they can expect to get physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists? That is the issue.