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Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: If John Boland's proposals had been enacted, they would have saved the taxpayer most of the €2 billion bill we now face but they were stopped by the subsequent Minister for Health who was, with respect, the Ceann Comhairle himself.

Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am merely asking for the Ceann Comhairle's guidance at this stage on procedure. Is there any precedent?

Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not want to go the Ceann Comhairle's office. I want to know if there is a precedent for the Ceann Comhairle vacating the Chair to address the House on a matter.

Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I will come back to this when the House is preparing for a debate proper on this issue.

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: If possible, I will try to share some of my time with Deputy McManus. In this very inadequate format, it is only possible to initiate this debate and the type of debate the Travers report warrants. The Taoiseach and his Government colleagues have engineered for themselves a head start and a clear run for a day or two in their attempts to manipulate public opinion on the Travers report but...

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The House will have to wait until another day for Deputy McManus's incisive contribution. I must finish this point. The Government would have us believe the former Minister for Health and Children is personally insulated in circumstances where his two Ministers of State were present, where his two advisers were present, where he had received an advance briefing paper, and where he had...

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: He was at the disco.

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: They did not even tell the Tánaiste then.

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That is almost——

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Why is she getting rid of just one official?

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is unbelievable.

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister has answered nothing yet.

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: This is now a 12 minute speech. It is total blather.

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Would the Minister like to say something about the Nemo Rangers?

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: What does the Minister say?

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That is poppycock.

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Travers said the Department knew.

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Minister state clearly to the House when he knew first about this enormous problem? Did any Member of the House raise this issue with him? When did he become aware of the decision to seek definitive legal advice? Was it only when the Secretary General briefed him at the Gresham Hotel? Did the Minister hear the Tánaiste say that when Deputies Perry and Kenny raised this issue with...

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: When the Tánaiste was Minister for Health and Children.

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: John Boland was aware, Dr. Rory O'Hanlon was aware, Haughey was aware.