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Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister says that during a tendering process, one should not advertise how much one is likely to pay. That is exactly what the Government did when it bought the land concerned. The Government let it be known that it had €30 million to spend on a farm on which to build a prison. It got a farm, all right. The Minister expects me to jump up and down and applaud him for building a wall...

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Minister remember anything about Brian Boru, in the 10th and 11th centuries? He should answer my question about the present.

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Our priority was to keep the country on an even keel and not let it go down the tubes, as the Minister's party has done.

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister is never directly involved in anything that goes wrong.

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: That is exactly what happened after the collapse of the M50.

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: If the project, as arranged with the preferred bidder under the PPP, has collapsed, why can the Minister not make public the financing arrangements that were being sought, so that we can make an assessment regarding value for money? The Minister believes one should only compare parties on the basis of what they did when in government. When the Labour Party was in government we handed over...

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: And 439,000 of them have lost them.

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The process has collapsed.

Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: It is history.

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: All penal experts say the opposite.

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: They all say the opposite.

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Of course it is.

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I even go to Dundalk.

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: When that prisoner gets out, the Minister should appoint him to the board of Anglo Irish Bank.

Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: A Cheann Comhairle, it must have been tough to put up with him over 25 years. I do not know how you did it.

Family Law Provisions (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: This is a bit like the debate on alternative strategies to deal with the incarceration of young people and the cost that accrues to the taxpayer. Putting more resources into the mediation side of family law would be in the interests of the taxpayer in the long term. How frequently do we get cases in our clinics from people who find it very difficult to access the courts in this area? I...

Commercial Rent Review (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he has received the report on the working group to look at the issue of commercial rent reviews; if he will report on the main findings of the group; when he intends to publish this report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28664/10]

Commercial Rent Review (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: If that is the target, we have not done very well so far.

Commercial Rent Review (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Please do not take the injury time out on me, a Cheann Comhairle. When he announced this group, the Minister said it would report by the end of June. I take it from what he has now said that it will not do so. Is he aware that he made this announcement on the same day that my party introduced a Bill, given the emergency nature of the crisis in the retail sector to deal with the issue of...

Commercial Rent Review (30 Jun 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister is correct in that we sought expert legal opinion in working on our Bill and my colleague, Deputy Ciarán Lynch, set that out when he introduced it. We received further legal advice to the effect that the measures taken by the Minister, which only relate to the future, will have no impact on the economic crisis I am talking about in the retail sector currently, where 30,000 jobs...