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Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Did the Tánaiste bring in these guys yet?

Garda Strength. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Minister think that applies to the Government?

Garda Strength. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister referred earlier to the number of gardaí on the ground. Dundalk must be very well supplied with gardaí if the Minister thinks there are many gardaí on the ground. If the Minister visits my constituency, he will not see many gardaí on the ground. The gardaí in my area are entirely over-stretched in terms of numbers, etc. I do not know how the Minister can be so...

Garda Strength. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I am concerned that the Minister might have left the impression with senior gardaí in anticipation of retirement and indeed wider than that through the entire public sector that they might relax now and take the Minister's assurance as an assurance that the lump sum will only be taxed in excess of €200,000. I would be concerned that the Minister would have an opportunity to clarify that...

Garda Strength. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: That is what I am here for.

Garda Strength. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I think that is helpful.

Garda Strength. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I can assure the Minister that I have read it. I can also assure him that I read the McCarthy report, which is not something one would divine from hearing the Ministers who sponsored and paid for it, and have since disowned it.

Garda Strength. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: It is important to record again the assurance from the Minister that it is very unlikely that anything other than the recommendation of the Commission on Taxation-----

Garda Strength. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: ----- will be implemented in the case of retirements.

Garda Strength. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I think that will be helpful.

Garda Strength. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Exponential.

Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: What about the oul' Bill?

Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: They must have been terrified.

Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach will know many of the management companies are front companies for developers or are set up by developers. They are going bust in the present climate and many of them are technically insolvent. We, on these benches, started to raise this issue in 2005. The Bill has become bogged down in the Seanad since before the summer recess. In terms of the Taoiseach's answer to Deputy...

Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: We have had no feedback, good, bad or indifferent, from the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, who is sponsoring the Bill, on these areas of discussion. I am aware of situations where even the sinking fund is being used to do ordinary works. Many citizens are in distress in regard to these management companies across west Dublin, Kildare and several other parts of the country....

Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Seanad is anxious to sit over Christmas.

Crime Levels. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of recorded cases of so-called tiger robberies, in which staff or relatives of staff of financial institutions were taken hostage to date in 2009; the amount of money taken in such robberies; the discussions he has had with the financial institutions about these robberies; and if he will make a statement on the...

Crime Levels. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister is correct in assuming that every Member of this House agrees these are appalling crimes and that our sympathy is with the victims and their families. However, is he not concerned that so-called tiger kidnappings are on the increase and is it not reasonable to presume that the very large sums of money garnered in some of these incidents are used for the financing of more serious...

Crime Levels. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Let me give the Minister the example of the €7.6 million taken in a recent robbery of this type in a Dublin bank. How did an employee, admittedly one operating under duress, have such easy access to retrieve the amount of money handed over? The robbery was followed by press statements or behind the scenes briefings by the Garda that a great deal of the money was recovered. I understand...

Crime Levels. (10 Nov 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Was today's commentary fair?