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- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: I hope he has an American passport.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: On a point of order, has the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's office had notice of a resignation by the former Deputy Martin Cullen?
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach aware if he has changed his mind?
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: It is about maintaining the two-tier system. That is the problem.
- Written Answers — Food Labelling: Food Labelling (11 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the action he is taking to regulate the labelling of food as Irish when anecdotal evidence suggests that tenuous connections to Ireland are being used to avail of such. [12037/10]
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: I hope we will not be told the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, is in charge.
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Get an X-ray.
- Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will comment on the ISME bank watch survey which found that 55% of small to medium enterprises were refused funding in the three months to the end of February 2010; if he will further comment on the general SME lending environment; his views on whether the National Asset Management Agency is unlikely to have a significant impact on the...
- Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged consultants, or any State agency, to examine and monitor the non-National Asset Management Agency loan books of the guaranteed credit institutions; if he has a reliable estimate of the losses likely to be incurred on these loan books; if he envisages having to provide State financial support to any of the guaranteed credit...
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue that was paid to the Exchequer in 2009 from the income tax and corporation tax on stallion horse profits following the ending of tax exemption in August 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11810/10]
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of stallion horses standing here that are registered in the name of or owned by offshore companies or trusts, thus avoiding the payment of corporation tax on the stallions' profits; the percentage of the overall stallion population in the breeding industry that are registered or owned offshore; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans he has to close the loophole whereby stallion horses can stand here and their owners can avoid paying tax through registering them offshore; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11812/10]
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: He might be worried about what Deputy Morgan would do with it.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: I was not party to the discussion on Committee Stage. It seems there is a question over at least some of our research and development spending and that its commercialisation is the issue. We have very highly trained academics who, forever and a day, would engage in blue sky research and so on. However, I do not know of any report - it may well have been done - that has attempted to...
- Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: That is a little like the situation in respect of nursing homes and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Micheál Martin, when Minister for Health and Children.
- Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Some of us would like to ask questions if Deputy à Caoláin would only finish his Second Stage speech.
- Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: I wanted to ask some questions asked by Deputy Reilly but to which he did not get answers. Is one of the difficulties we have that the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, and Fianna Fáil are semi-detached from responsibility for health? The Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, is regarded as not being one of them. They believe she is in reality but it suits them to say...
- Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: When will a Minister of the Fianna Fáil hue in this Government ever take responsibility for any lapse in public administration that occurs?
- Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: How many more lapses will we have where the Minister says it is not her task to meddle and that she did not know about it? She has said she attended a meeting about something else at which somebody whispered in her ear, in passing, that there might be a problem in regard to X-rays. However, she claims she did not know the scale of the problem until yesterday. Any Minister who seriously...
- Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: On the public-private matter-----