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Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: So, it is true that the former Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Micheál Martin, signed a contract that states doctors must agree to the removal of the entitlement before the Government can change it? That is unbelievable.

Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I will come back to the matter.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to share time with Deputy Jack Wall. It is difficult to reply to this budget because it is a moving target. The remarks of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, who introduced it, ought to be mentioned as a starting point. He said that it was "no less than a call to patriotic action". If ever there was a more inappropriate call to the flag, I cannot recall it. To summon...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Nobody denies that the country is facing the worst economic circumstances in a generation and only the most partisan would deny that the crisis is of the Government's own making. Time and again the Minister for Finance pledged, in his speech and beforehand, that his guiding principle would be the protection of the vulnerable and what he called "the little people". It is a cause for concern...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: How can anyone argue that a cap of two support teachers is justified, irrespective of the size of the school or the number of non-national children? The decision to abandon the effort to improve the pupil-teacher ratio and to take a significant step backwards has properly provoked strenuous protests from teacher leaders who have tended heretofore to be supportive of the Government. Far from...

Environmental Policy. (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 38: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he is taking to address the four key environmental challenges, including mainstreaming environmental considerations across all sectors of the economy, identified in the Environmental Protection Agency report on the state of the environment published in October 2008; and if he will make a statement...

Environmental Policy. (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 59: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he is taking to address the four key environmental challenges, including reversing environmental degradation through water pollution and the conservation status of habitats, identified in the Environmental Protection Agency report on the state of the environment published in October 2008; and if he...

Leaders' Questions (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: My concern is with Deputy Gogarty.

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: With regard to the eurozone meeting I agree with the Taoiseach's description of the implications of the financial crisis for the real economy. I also agree with him that if we were reliant on our own currency, if we had the punt now, the situation in this domestic economy would be worse than Iceland. Is it not the case that, notwithstanding the Taoiseach holding that view, that in so far as...

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: That means they are not there to make the contribution in the event of a default.

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Of course he did. I predicted that in the House during the debate.

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: However, they are not around to contribute in the event of a default.

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Bank of Ireland and AIB came in and the Government exempted them from the conditions.

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Are Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks in or did the Government exempt them from the most onerous conditions?

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Financial Times wrong?

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: It is not an editorial line.

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: It is not an editorial line.

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: It states that the two biggest banks——

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: It states that the Government has "dropped an insistence that the industry as a whole help to pay the costs involved in settling the debts of any insolvent bank".

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: That was the biggest condition. The Government has exempted the two biggest banks and the other major bank, the Ulster Bank, is not in. This means the taxpayer is entirely exposed and entirely vulnerable to any default.