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Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Can the Tánaiste give the House an approximate figure for the anticipated payout under the redress scheme for long-stay charges? Approximately how much will be paid out this year? What investigation is going on inside the Department of Health and Children following the discovery that the critical file from the Attorney General was being squatted on by the previous Minister?

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The entire controversy pivots around the missing file from the Attorney General.

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We now find that the previous Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mícheal Martin, squatted on this file. I am seeking to ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children——

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Since 1919, it has been possible to ask a question as the leader of a party on the Order of Business.

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: A senior civil servant at assistant principal level——

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is impossible to carry out our business in this House.

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Is there any investigation going on?

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: When will the Tánaiste sign the regulations in respect of the nursing home charges issue?

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the progress to date on the reintroduction of height limits for heavy goods vehicles as promised three years ago. [15668/05]

Written Answers — National Car Test: National Car Test (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of public meetings held to date under the consultation process on the performance of the national car test; the average numbers attending at each such meeting; the expected total cost of this process; when it is likely to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15563/05]

Central Statistics Office Report. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the recent Central Statistics Office report, Measuring Ireland's Progress 2004. [10592/05]

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is not true. I was there, so I know.

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister does not know very much.

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is about time the Minister demonstrated a bit of knowledge about his job. He should not distort the figures.

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Yes, you are.

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister is misrepresenting the Comptroller and Auditor General's report.

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister should not try his pugnacious nonsense on me.

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister will understand why the subject of cancer care services is topical. He will know that there was a protest outside the Dáil last week, organised by various community organisations and cancer sufferers from the south east. Why is there interminable drift of the cancer care strategy? Why did the previous Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, promise the extension...

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The stock and trade response to such questions by the Minister for Finance and the Taoiseach is to reel off a number of statistics and refer to when the Opposition was last in office. Patients in pain and in need of morphine and, in some cases, travelling to Dublin from parts of Donegal or Waterford are not interested in the Government playing games with regard to what was in place when I was...