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Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (4 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 427: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the 999 service has been put out to tender; if the tender has been awarded; the person to whom it was awarded; the location of same; the staffing implications of this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21843/08]

Written Answers — Patient Referrals: Patient Referrals (5 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the proposal that patients would be able to refer themselves to consultants; if this proposal applies to public patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22167/08]

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (5 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in implementing the report by the emergency department task force; her views on the statement by the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine that overcrowding has reached record levels (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22168/08]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (5 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the funding crisis facing an organisation (details supplied); if he is himself there is fairness in his Department's allocation of resources as between women's groups and men's groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22412/08]

Written Answers — Change of Name Licence: Change of Name Licence (5 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare for a licence to change their name; when a decision will be made; when the necessary documents will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22418/08]

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: The message of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights states the committee has completed its consideration of this matter. I am bound to say this is a parliamentary device designed not to mislead the House but to reassure it that a large number of committee members were gathered in silent scrutiny of this proposal for a very long period. However, that is not...

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Or even promoters for developers out of his own stable. He stated that if we wanted to find that out, we should go to the National Treasury Management Agency. I think the Government should tell us about its position. Is it the case that Bernard McNamara has been selected? Is it the case, given the controversy that has unfolded with Dublin City Council, that he does not have the capacity...

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Thank you.

Business of Dáil (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Could that be distributed?

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: That is a sure sign it will get the go ahead.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I presume colleagues saw last night that Jim Norton won a very well-merited Tony award. We remember him fondly from his role as the bishop in "Father Ted". The more I watch the new Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and given his obvious officer material, the more he reminds me of Bishop Len. He refuses to engage in the same language as the rest of us. We keep asking him...

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I hope he is not insinuating that a senior Deputy like Deputy O'Rourke would come in here to make cluck-clucking noises that would go down well with one section of the community. I took her at face value. She made very forthright remarks about why a progressive development in penology ought not be shut down——

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Flanagan. She made a plea to the Minister and he ignored her plea. Is it the economic consideration of the development value of the Mountjoy site that is causing the Minister to move Dóchas out to Kilsallaghan? I would appreciate a reply. Has the OPW been commissioned to design and produce the Garda station promised by the Minister? I have sought information on this matter...

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I am glad the Minister has not changed. He will be in for four very hot years if he continues like that.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I did not fall at all.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: There is no preferred bidder.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Why would we change it then?

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Why?

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: More of the same.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister did not have to.