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Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Some of us would like to ask questions if Deputy Ó Caoláin would only finish his Second Stage speech.

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I wanted to ask some questions asked by Deputy Reilly but to which he did not get answers. Is one of the difficulties we have that the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, and Fianna Fáil are semi-detached from responsibility for health? The Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, is regarded as not being one of them. They believe she is in reality but it suits them to say...

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: When will a Minister of the Fianna Fáil hue in this Government ever take responsibility for any lapse in public administration that occurs?

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: How many more lapses will we have where the Minister says it is not her task to meddle and that she did not know about it? She has said she attended a meeting about something else at which somebody whispered in her ear, in passing, that there might be a problem in regard to X-rays. However, she claims she did not know the scale of the problem until yesterday. Any Minister who seriously...

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: On the public-private matter-----

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The public-private issue deserves-----

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Do I have to make a point of order in order to stop the Minister of State rambling?

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Will we get a reply on the public-private issue?

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Minister have a reply on the question of the mix of public and private patients?

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: To what extent did the private patients' workload of the consultants concerned contribute to the backlog? If the Minister of State does not have that information, I ask that he find it out and make it available to us.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I support this amendment. I do so with an element of care because some tax designation measures of recent times have been overdone and overcooked. This, however, is rather a special case for all of the reasons the House well understands. I am not sure I understand the Minister's reply. The last public utterance on this came from the Minister's colleague, Deputy O'Dea, before his...

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I move amendment No. 14: In page 29, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: "(a) by inserting the following subsection in section 207: "(4A) A charity— (a) shall submit a copy of its annual report and accounts to the Revenue Commissioners within six months of the end of its account year, which shall be for a period not exceeding twelve months, (b) shall publish their accounts and...

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I take it the Minister's last point is that bona fide charities need not be concerned about the requirement in that regard.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister's riposte is that the import of the amendment which I have proposed is comprehensively provided for in the charities legislation. I am not quite sure that that is true in all respects. Why is the legislation not being implemented? Is it that the Revenue Commissioners have such work to do they are not yet ready to put in place that which is envisaged by the legislation? I...

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Thanks be to God.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Seeking an exemption for one particular development is not the way to make law, and I have sympathy with the Minister on that. However, I know what Deputy Ring is talking about as I visited Westport House last summer. He is right about the focus it provides for the attraction of business in Westport and west Mayo in general. Given what he is confronting, how else is he to address the...

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: That is for sure.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I am fascinated by a windfall tax in the development market.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister and I will be on Zimmer frames by then.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I move amendment No. 19: In page 62, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: 38.—The Minister shall within one month from the passing of this Act prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on Sharia Compliant Finance and on the resolution mechanism to be undertaken in the event of disputes or misunderstandings of same.". I am moving this amendment on behalf of my colleague,...