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Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste should talk to one of the backbenchers. They all knew about it.

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Like Deputy Kenny and the Tánaiste, I extend the condolences of my party to families involved in the awful tragedy at the weekend. I am also sure the Tánaiste will join me in commending the outstanding literary achievement of John Banville in winning the Man Booker prize yesterday. It was a splendid achievement by an outstanding writer, and we should acknowledge that. Is legislation...

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The claim is that lawyers operating the redress scheme are charging their clients out of their award despite already receiving moneys from the State.

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I accept that.

Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (11 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to allocate additional resources to the education welfare board to increase the number of education welfare officers throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27668/05]

Written Answers — Garda Vetting Procedures: Garda Vetting Procedures (11 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the categories of workers within the educational system that are vetted by the Garda for the risk of child abuse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27669/05]

Written Answers — General Practitioners: General Practitioners (11 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the continuing significant increase in general practitioner fees; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that some general practitioners in Dublin recently increased their fees from €40 to €50; her plans to impose limits on the amounts that general practitioners may...

Written Answers — Departmental Property: Departmental Property (11 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in regard to the removal of asbestos from Hawkins House during 2001, asbestos was detected in and removed from foyer area of the building; if staff working in the foyer area were notified of any such removal; the precautions which were taken to protect workers working in the foyer area; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Departmental Property: Departmental Property (11 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by staff who worked in the foyer area of Hawkins House that they may have been exposed to asbestos during the removal of this substance from the building; if steps have been taken to determine if such workers may have been exposed to asbestos; the health or medical...

Written Answers — Departmental Property: Departmental Property (11 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by staff who worked in the foyer area of Hawkins House that they may have been exposed to asbestos during the removal of this substance from the building; if, in view of these concerns, she will ask the Health and Safety Authority to review the manner in which the...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Contrary to what the Taoiseach says, last Tuesday he tried to defend this phenomenal waste. He also denied there was a problem. He instanced the e-Cabinet project as an area into which no consultants were brought and boasted that it cost only €5 million. How many people are involved in the e-Cabinet project, apart from the 15 computer geniuses present? Are there 100 people altogether? This...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has said a new set of controls is being introduced to ensure that ICT contracts proceed in accordance with best practice. Most taxpayers, who contribute their hard-earned euro towards the running of this State, including its health services, believed that was already being done. I am not at all clear regarding what will now be different, except that the Taoiseach is to ask a few...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Are there many other such concepts?

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Is it like the concept of electronic voting? That was another one. How can the Taoiseach, as head of Government, go on avoiding taking action against any Minister, no matter how great the cock-up inflicted on the taxpayer, who ends up covering the cost? I cannot see what was involved in yesterday's decision other than a formula to get the Taoiseach over the hump of this debacle. Are there...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste has admitted that this is an open-ended contract. Are there other such contracts in the system, and how can bringing an official from the Department of Health and Children on a cross-departmental basis to consider a project in the Department of Social and Family Affairs assure us that it is operating in accordance with best practice? Does the Taoiseach intend to take any...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Government taking advice regarding whether any action will be taken against the consultants, who apparently got away scot-free with €50 million of taxpayers' money for making the biggest hames of an IT project in the history of the State hitherto?

Constitutional Amendments. (12 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the constitutional amendments the Government intends to bring forward within the lifetime of the 29th Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24369/05]

Constitutional Amendments. (12 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I understand the position is there may or may not be a referendum on the European constitution in the lifetime of the current Government but that is the only contemplated referendum on an amendment to the Constitution. I ask that question in the context of nine different reports having been produced since 1997 on the matter of necessary or perceived necessary amendments to the Constitution. I...

Constitutional Amendments. (12 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The net point here is that no action has been taken. The relevance of Deputy O'Sullivan's question is that it was the same Taoiseach who used the Constitution for about four years to explain why he could not intervene in the cost of building land because he feared that a constitutional amendment might be necessary. It was then put to the all-party committee——

Constitutional Amendments. (12 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——which offered the view that it is possible to intervene in the public good. The Taoiseach now says that senior counsel with whom he apparently fraternises——