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Drug Seizures. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Praise for the Garda Síochána and the other agencies to which the Minister refers ought not be restricted to his side of the House. We on this side commend their work too. Is it not a fact that, according to Garda figures, only 10% of the drugs that come through or into this jurisdiction are seized? One cannot point to the figures as manifest evidence of progress. They are as likely to...

Drug Seizures. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: That is the Garda figure.

Drug Seizures. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: It is in the answers to several parliamentary questions tabled before the Minister took office. Those were the answers we received. The word processor indicated a figure of 10% before the Minister came along.

Drug Seizures. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I was not sniggering.

Drug Seizures. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I was laughing at the Minister's audacity in accusing this side of House of engaging in partisan politics.

Drug Seizures. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: We want the Irish figures.

Drug Seizures. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Those are the figures given by the Minister's predecessors in the past 15 years.

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the future of the Equality Authority, having regard to the resignation of the chief executive and six members of the board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7755/09]

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: How can the Minister reconcile what he has just said with his decision to drive out the chief executive and six directors of the Equality Authority who believe the authority has been neutered and undermined? It has been killed off, in effect, in terms of its traditional role. Will the Minister answer the question he evaded the last time we discussed this matter? If his purpose was to save...

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: How can it be said that there are 12 people?

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not sure I understand how there are still 12 people on the board, working as hard as the Minister says they are. He said there were four vacancies. Is it not the case that the Government cleaned out the original board before it drove out the chief executive? It added four directors, thereby increasing the size of the board to 12. Those who supervised the authority's previous body of...

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Six former members of the board have the same opinion.

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: It was constructive dismissal.

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister is the person with the ideological hang up.

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister is the person who forced the man out. He did not even know about the legal case until the last day.

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister did not even know about the legal case until he went back to his Department. How is it progressing?

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister did not even know about it.

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: He did not even know about the legal case.

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister should be on the Abbey stage.

Anti-Social Behaviour. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the anti-social behaviour order mechanism not been a failure? Given the scale of anti-social behaviour in so many of our communities, to talk about three civil and three behaviour orders being issued is absurd. So many of our communities are tortured by anti-social behaviour and people are targeted because they are vulnerable. Anybody who is different, older people, women living alone...