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Job Creation. (16 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: We are taking Private Notice Questions. The Deputy is making a Second Stage speech.

Job Creation. (16 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I am.

Job Creation. (16 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Of course I can.

Job Creation. (16 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: It will be a short statement then.

Job Creation. (16 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Nobody did that in Fianna Fáil.

Order of Business (Resumed). (16 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: He has been lying in here for 25 years.

Order of Business (Resumed). (16 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: He wants an opportunity to record it.

Order of Business (Resumed). (16 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: At what time exactly?

Order of Business (Resumed). (16 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: That clashes with "Nob Nation".

Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010: Order for Second Stage (16 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I thought the Ceann Comhairle was asking me to help out the Minister.

Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010: Order for Second Stage (16 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (11 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of adult health community teams that have been established; the progress that she expects for 2010 to increase this number in accordance with policy in A Vision for Change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6989/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (11 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take arising from the recent report of the Ombudsman for Children regarding conditions under which more than 120 children separated from their parents and seeking asylum here are housed in hostels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46173/09]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding an application for payment of redundancy in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [7446/10]

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (11 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I join the Minister and Deputy Charles Flanagan in commending the work of the review group and Professor Gerard Hogan. I am glad to be able to give a broad welcome to this Bill which introduces some reforms of the criminal justice system and which has clearly been informed by the proposals of the review group, although the proposals therein are not identical to the review group's in all...

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (11 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: -----and I know he will eventually come around to talking about it but some very serious issues were raised in that report. Obviously, the Minister is the sort who puts on the green jersey and says: "I am the Minister for Justice, my job is to defend the Garda Síochána and is it not terrible what they are saying on the other side of the House?" What we are saying on this side of the House...

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (11 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: It does. I agree with the Minister. The ICCL makes the point it does not consider that the proposed amendment of criminal procedure rules will result in any significant changes for the victims of crime. The central and unique selling point of this Bill is that it is about making significant changes for the victims of crime. Referring to the document it published some years ago, "Better...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Government has put the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act into abeyance. I do not recall it happening before. There is a special school in my constituency in which the Minister has decided that 12 of the 17 SNAs must be made redundant by summer and the first batch of them by the middle of February. There are 90-----

Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Perhaps I could prevail on the Ceann Comhairle to call me on the Adjournment on the matter. These 90 pupils with special needs in a school under great pressure are among the most vulnerable in our society. It is not appropriate to cut the number of SNAs from 17 to five and threaten to come back take out some of the teachers. Whatever we need to do in this environment of cuts, I suggest to...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: It is St. Joseph's special school in Balrothery in Tallaght.