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

Pat Rabbitte: In the absence of her knowledge on Sharia finance, I must do the best I can with the amendment. I am thankful she was not present in the House when Deputy Ring was trying to gain advantage for rezoning around Westport. As I understand the point at issue, there may be a conflict between two systems of law where disputes arise. There does not seem to be a great deal of jurisprudence to guide...

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

Pat Rabbitte: He might be worried about what Deputy Morgan would do with it.

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

Pat Rabbitte: I was not party to the discussion on Committee Stage. It seems there is a question over at least some of our research and development spending and that its commercialisation is the issue. We have very highly trained academics who, forever and a day, would engage in blue sky research and so on. However, I do not know of any report - it may well have been done - that has attempted to...

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will comment on the ISME bank watch survey which found that 55% of small to medium enterprises were refused funding in the three months to the end of February 2010; if he will further comment on the general SME lending environment; his views on whether the National Asset Management Agency is unlikely to have a significant impact on the...

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged consultants, or any State agency, to examine and monitor the non-National Asset Management Agency loan books of the guaranteed credit institutions; if he has a reliable estimate of the losses likely to be incurred on these loan books; if he envisages having to provide State financial support to any of the guaranteed credit...

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue that was paid to the Exchequer in 2009 from the income tax and corporation tax on stallion horse profits following the ending of tax exemption in August 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11810/10]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of stallion horses standing here that are registered in the name of or owned by offshore companies or trusts, thus avoiding the payment of corporation tax on the stallions' profits; the percentage of the overall stallion population in the breeding industry that are registered or owned offshore; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans he has to close the loophole whereby stallion horses can stand here and their owners can avoid paying tax through registering them offshore; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11812/10]

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I hope we will not be told the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, is in charge.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Get an X-ray.

Written Answers — Food Labelling: Food Labelling (11 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the action he is taking to regulate the labelling of food as Irish when anecdotal evidence suggests that tenuous connections to Ireland are being used to avail of such. [12037/10]

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I believe the Minister has a Gladstone complex.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I hope he has an American passport.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: On a point of order, has the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's office had notice of a resignation by the former Deputy Martin Cullen?

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach aware if he has changed his mind?

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: It is about maintaining the two-tier system. That is the problem.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: He is arguably the most suited to high office.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: That is a good one.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The trouble is that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Dermot Ahern, believes what he is saying. He lives in cloud cuckoo land.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Fiche bliain ag fás.