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Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: That rattled the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions. (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The banks were lying.

Leaders' Questions. (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: We have nationalised them anyway.

Leaders' Questions. (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: As Deputy Gogarty would say, "It is a nightmare".

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I propose to share time with Deputies Joe Costello and Aengus Ó Snodaigh. The Labour Party will support the Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010. The pity is that it took so long for Government to respond to the rash of so-called head shops that have spread across the country. I say this because terrible damage has been done. Some of the young people seduced by what are...

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: He must be thinking, "What did I do to deserve this-----

Written Answers — Departmental Reviews: Departmental Reviews (1 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Drogheda review will report; if she has decided to have an inquiry into the issues involved; if the inquiry so recommends; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28927/10]

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I support these amendments, particularly Nos. 10 and 55, which are in the name of my colleague, Deputy Burton. The danger is that because of the catastrophe which has befallen us due to blind-eye regulation we will now swing 180 degrees the other way. The amendments introduced by the Minister, Nos. 35a and b, were an afterthought. Somebody said, "We are restructuring regulation dealing...

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Then if we vote at 1 p.m., it will be on this amendment.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Will she raise it with the Queen when she comes?

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I ask the Tánaiste about the judicial misconduct Bill. A report in The Irish Times earlier this week set out the implications of not having this Bill. When allegations made against a member of the Judiciary had to be processed under a constitutional arrangement by an Oireachtas committee, we received a bill of €1.9 million from lawyers for the judge concerned. A personal injury case...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: This is an unconscionable situation at a time when every other section in society has endured cuts. A certain sheltered professional class which apparently has no regard for the environment in which we live is extorting extraordinary and unjustifiable fees. The Government needs to address the issue.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste can require the Minister to answer.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste can require a Minister to answer the question.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Of course it does.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: On a point of order, is there any precedent for a Minister taking a position that a grant should be cut by half because a pamphlet is claimed to have criticised a Minister. Perhaps her action would be more acceptable if there was not such a stench of sanctimony from the same Minister, Deputy Mary Alexandra White.

Written Answers — Prison Accommodation: Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 171: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will confirm that a new prison block at Wheatfield Prison, Dublin, has been lying idle for more than six months due to a failure to provide kitchen facilities; the cost of the construction of the block; the reason kitchen facilities were not provided; when it is planned to bring the block into service; and if he...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 172: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of recorded cases of so-called tiger robberies in which staff or relations of staff of financial institutions were taken hostage in each year from 2005 to 2009 and to date in 2010; the amount of money taken in such robberies; the discussions he has had with a bank (details supplied) regarding the most recent...

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the progress made on the Thornton Hall prison project; when plans for the construction of a new prison at Thornton Hall were first announced by his Department; when a builder will be engaged to build the first block on site; the amount this block will cost; if the design has been borrowed from the collapsed public private...

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister's response to my question about a major infrastructural project is a good example of the manner in which the Government treats the House. It shelters behind commercial sensitivity and other protections in order to avoid telling the House what is going on. I do not know anybody who agrees with the Government that a huge prison facility should be constructed on the Dublin-Meath...