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Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: We are doing our best with it. It will take a little time but if we want a quick answer, the answer will not be satisfactory. We are trying to find a solution.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: No. I am trying to find a way of being helpful to the people.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Wait another two weeks.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: It has been 25 years.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: There is no such legislation listed.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The defence amendment Bill will be published. The Curragh of Kildare Bill, to the best of my knowledge, is still not completed.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: We provided a large increase in capitation this year.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: No legislation is listed. Perhaps a question to the Minister would be appropriate.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: If the Minister for Health and Children told Deputy Stanton she intended to bring in legislation in early 2007, she meant that.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not have it listed.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not have it listed.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I will pass on the query to the Minister.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I understood after the Cabinet meeting the other day that we had still a good chance of introducing it tomorrow.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: To the best of my knowledge, as of last night it was fairly close to completion.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The Minister is helping me on this one.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: No. The legislation was taken off the list.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: As I will be at the European Council tomorrow and Friday, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you, your Office, the Clerk of the Dáil and all the members of staff here in the Houses of the Oireachtas every good wish for the Christmas period and to thank them very much for their co-operation throughout the year and for the long hours they...

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: We work hard and I can appreciate the job we all are doing. What the public think about us sometimes is unfair, but we all do our best to serve the public. I certainly admire my colleagues with whom I must deal every day. Even if we are fulfilling our parliamentary duties of being at loggerheads on this, that and the other matter, it does not take from my respect for them. I thank my...

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: As long as I am alive to see another one.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The House will have plenty of time to debate the details but what is wrong with the current system, according to the detailed document which the Minister of Health and Children published the other day, is that although only 4.6% of people over the age of 65 are in nursing homes, a sizeable number of those have had to use their entire savings and assets, including a property, to access...