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Leaders' Questions. (14 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: No, I raised the question as to whether the Bill will be reviewed.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is flimflamming. He is filibustering. What is the answer to the question? Will the Bill be reviewed?

Leaders' Questions. (14 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The report was published last week.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Government would not agree to a debate.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: One recommendation.

Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That is just as well as a number of them are on very shaky ground. The Taoiseach will remember telling the House that if the Minister, Deputy Martin, had read his brief it would have saved the country €50 million. The Tánaiste told us on 12 May that failure to sign regulations was costing approximately €12 million a month — that amounts to approximately €144 million a year. If the...

Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I do, Sir. I anticipated the Ceann Comhairle would ask me that. The Tánaiste said on 12 May that she would be signing the regulations next week, but to the best of my knowledge, they have not been signed. When is it proposed to sign them?

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (14 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it is intended to proceed with changes to the structure and content of the leaving certificate examination as recommended by the NCCA; if not, her reasons for rejecting the recommendations; if it is intended to publish the report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19675/05]

Written Answers — Children Act 2001: Children Act 2001 (14 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will list the sections of the Children Act 2001 for which her Department has responsibility, which are already in operation; if she will list those sections that have yet to be brought into operation; if any timetable has been set for the implementation of the remaining sections; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Leaders' Questions. (15 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I remind the Tánaiste that in 2002, in respect of measures to combat corruption in police forces, the Government committed to a package of measures at Interpol, including provision for an annual review of the efficacy of these measures and provision for participation by civil society. Two years later, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform produced the Garda Síochána Bill — an...

Leaders' Questions. (15 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——including some of my learned friends in the media. He said the Minister had taken it into account. As the leader of the Progressive Democrats, does the Tánaiste stand over this insult to Morris? This is his second report. Her Government would not even agree to a debate on the first report. His major recommendation in this second report is that we review the Bill. The distinguished...

Leaders' Questions. (15 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: How far standards in the House have fallen when the Tánaiste rows in behind the mantra the Taoiseach trotted out yesterday. None of that has any meaning. She said the Minister is big enough and strong enough. His mouth is big enough anyway but when it comes to addressing the particular issue, he evades it and the Tánaiste ought to know that. There is no point talking about an Ombudsman...

Order of Business. (15 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I support the remarks of Deputy Kenny. It is particularly hard on Independent Deputies elected to the House to be reduced for the duration of their stay here to merely reading out a request under Standing Order 31 when, in most cases, it is fair to say, other than in the case of Northern Ireland taking over Cavan-Monaghan, the Ceann Comhairle has no intention of acceding to the request.

Order of Business. (15 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not think there is any prospect of Northern Ireland taking over Cavan-Monaghan. The Ceann Comhairle can relax. Six years ago today, on behalf of the Labour Party, I introduced the Whistleblowers Bill which the Government of the day accepted and it was passed on Second Stage. At that time the then Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy O'Donoghue, told the House that much...

Order of Business. (15 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Minister of State, Deputy Parlon, was actively progressing the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell's going down.

Order of Business. (15 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: There is much interest outside the House in this issue. Can I take it from that statement that it is not the intention of the Government to introduce a whistleblowers Bill?

Order of Business. (15 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We have never seen any explication of that in the House.

Order of Business. (15 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: On the Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill yesterday, an amendment to this effect was ruled out by the Minister of State, Deputy Parlon, on the basis that——

Order of Business. (15 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——a Bill on whistleblowing was due.

Order of Business. (15 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I know you are sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, but let me make this point.