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Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Burton for sharing her time. I want to consider Part 2 of Schedule 2, which amends the Act we passed last September and, as I understand it, permits the Minister, by order, to continue the banks' guarantee essentially for as long as he sees fit. I have heard Deputy Bruton refer to selective extensions only and to the Taoiseach's qualification of this on the Order of Business...

Written Answers — Corrib Gas Pipeline: Corrib Gas Pipeline (18 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the possibility that there will be a gas shortage here in the winter of 2009 if there are further delays in the Corrib gas project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24060/09]

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (17 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost in 2008 to his Department in regard to the Official Languages Act 2003 and its implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23861/09]

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (17 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if it is planned to locate the new Irish translation unit in the Galway west constituency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23862/09]

Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009 - Committee Stage (17 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I support the request by Deputy Bruton for the tabular breakdown. The Minister cannot rhyme it off but it would be of great assistance to us. In the case of one of the institutions encompassed by section 1, Anglo Irish Bank, the Taoiseach and the Minister have taken to using a figure of over €60 billion as the cost of winding it down. The figure has come under attack by those who could...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (17 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I agree with everything the Minister and Deputy Charles Flanagan have said about the origins of these measures, the gruesome circumstances of the Omagh bombing and their condemnation of the organisation responsible and associated dissident organisations who continue to operate in the jurisdiction and outside it. I join with the Minister in congratulating the gardaí on their continued...

Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I am sure the Taoiseach has answered this question in the course of ordinary questions, but some of our colleagues have been in committees and so on. When will the negotiations begin on the review of the programme for Government and when is it intended that they will finish?

Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: It is difficult for us to ask questions here on legislation if we do not know which programme for Government we are following. The negotiations might already be ongoing for all I know.

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (16 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 will have an operation; if the National Treatment Purchase Fund will pay for the procedure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23540/09]

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I anticipated that kind of reply. Has the Government accorded any priority to the enactment of the Defamation Bill in this term?

Departmental Expenditure. (16 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the review of the horse and greyhound fund will be published before the end of this Dáil session; if it will be debated in Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23603/09]

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: What confusion?

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: No, it did not.

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: They were not done and that is the whole point.

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to give a couple of minutes of my time to my colleague, Deputy Costello, if he joins us.

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Before I moved the Adjournment last night I commented that it was unusual that in the debate so far no attention had been paid to the indemnity deal made between the Government and the religious congregations. I wish to avail of the few minutes available to me to comment on that. To continue the point I was making last, to some extent or another, all of us in this society are to blame. The...

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (11 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the legal services ombudsman will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23403/09]

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: When opening this debate, the Taoiseach told the House that the report of the Ryan commission made grim reading. He stated: The catalogue of horror and terror that was visited over many years on children in the care of religious congregations, placed there by the State, is appalling beyond belief. It is made even more appalling, if that is possible, by the fact that those who perpetrated...

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Does that apply in the case of reform schools?

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I will not be asleep during Deputy Ring's speech.