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Written Answers — Broadcasting Services: Broadcasting Services (6 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: The management of the radio spectrum is a statutory function of the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) under the Communications Regulation Act 2002. ComReg believes that the 70% of population coverage requirement is sufficient to ensure that cherry picking solely of high-density urban areas could not occur. It is also modest enough to avoid the duplication of build-out in low...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Martin did not read what he signed.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Adams must have been kept in cotton wool.

Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: Go away.

Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: We will put a machine up in the office and run it through it.

Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: He is beginning to meander - he is getting old. Would he make some sense? This is total raiméis.

Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: The Christmas pantomime would not have so many characters.

Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Deputy looking for a loan?

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Financial Resolution (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: I move: That provision be made in the Act giving effect to this Resolution for the charging in accordance with the Act of a contribution from an energy supplier under an energy efficiency notice which the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources shall pay into a fund to be known as the Energy Efficiency Fund, the money in which fund upon its winding-up shall be disposed of by...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not stand here today to make the claim that this is by any means a great budget. I do not seek to pretend that this is a budget which will instantly fix the problems faced by our economy or the problems faced by so many families across this country who are going through difficult times. What I do say is that this is a necessary budget - it is as good as it can be in the circumstances...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: Why not?

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: The new Fianna Fáil mantra is that the Government can no longer blame Fianna Fáil. Why not?

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: Is there a serious suggestion that this Government would introduce a budget such as this if we were beginning from a clean sheet? We are attempting to cope with the disastrous legacy left behind by Fianna Fáil-----

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: -----and their alternating partners, the Progressive Democrats and the Green Party.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: The Deputy is too young to remember 2007.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: The battered and clapped out remnants of the once great Fianna Fáil Party is under siege from the new and improved Sinn Féin.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: Beneath the radar-----

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: Before this Dáil finishes, I expect Mattie to move one step towards Fianna Fáil.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: Mattie will go one step this way. He should be careful not to fall into a septic tank.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: It is worth noting that beneath the radar, Sinn Féin is beginning to shed the wilder reaches of what has passed up to now for its economic policy.