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Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Unfair Dismissals Act.

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, for allowing me to raise this important issue which I do at the request of Raymond McCord Snr. who has given me detailed information on his son's case. Mr. McCord has suffered a campaign of intimidation and violence from the UDA. He has been beaten up and left for dead. Subsequently, he has campaigned to obtain justice for his son. Gunmen have targeted his...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the hardship caused by his decision to withdraw the €9 per week fuel allowance that was previously paid to pensioners living in sheltered housing in inner city Dublin; the reason the decision was made; the total saving that will accrue to his Department as a result; if he will review the...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is the only new bus.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I have two questions for the Taoiseach. Does he recall the speech made by the Minister for Finance on 20 October? This was a 12 point plan the Minister for Finance announced to counteract the litany of waste, misspending and maladministration that had given rise to the controversies in the public domain before that. He announced a major initiative, a 12 point plan, point three of which was...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: They were sanctioned last year; they were ordered last year; they are ready; they are 20 buses to replace 20 buses that are being retired by Dublin Bus.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: What credibility can the House give to a plan that on something as particular and specific as this, the Minister could have lied barefacedly through his teeth——

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: How does one describe what I have just described?

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I will say instead they are blatant untruths. How can the Taoiseach justify what the Minister said? How can he justify the fact that——

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I withdraw the word "lie". The Taoiseach said they have provided so many buses for Iarnród Éireann. That must be where they are running — on the railway tracks — because they are not running in Dublin.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Three new QBCs are ready to be rolled out by Dublin Bus, one in the Tallaght orbital route, one in south Clondalkin and one on the Rock Road. Dublin Bus is looking for buses for those three QBCs which cannot be rolled out because it does not have them and meanwhile the Taoiseach's Minister has the cheek to say that because 20 buses are being retired and 20 were ordered last year, he will...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: This was a media event and a stunt and the Taoiseach is making a very bad job of defending it.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That never happened.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I have never seen an elaborate programme announced by Government fall so flat on its face so quickly, and in all the time I have been opposite the Taoiseach in different positions, I have never seen him make such a poor defence of such an elaborate plan. I have a copy of a reply to a parliamentary question tabled by my colleague, Deputy Shortall. Dated 3 February 2005, it details the number...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That was the new initiative and the Government appears to have spurned it already. I simply asked the Taoiseach to lay the results of the evaluation before the House. The reason he did not indicate that he would do so was that no such evaluation has been done. There is little point in referring to a protest which we — properly — organised when the trams or carriages were delivered during...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach could not answer any of the questions put by any of the parties in question.

Tribunals of Inquiry. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the costs accruing to his Department in respect of each year since the Moriarty tribunal was established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26560/05]

Tribunals of Inquiry. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach agree that this tribunal has continued for much longer than anyone could have anticipated? Is it not fair that we factor in the number of times its work has been obstructed? That is not a value judgment on my part as to whether it ought to continue, but merely to note that it has been obstructed many times as various parties have had resort to the courts. In assessing the...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Representations from the Law Library could not be described as lobbying.

Freedom of Information. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the number of applications received under the Freedom of Information Act 1997 in the first nine months of 2005; the way in which this compares with the figures for the same period in 2002, 2003 and 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26562/05]