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Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: That was changed in the word processor earlier.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister promised an expurgated version.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: If we find out that, we will bring it to your attention.

Written Answers — Sheep Sector: Sheep Sector (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a package for the sheep sector will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4903/09]

Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the €17 million in modulation funds to come available in 2009 to 2010 will be targeted toward mountain areas in view of the fact that ewe numbers have fallen from 4.75 to 2.7 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4904/09]

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: We are ruined so.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: They blank out important information.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Did the Minister meet the auditor?

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Given the gravity of the matter, I suggest we seek the agreement of the Minister and the House to extend the allocated time to probe further. The questions should not be left half-answered.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I will be brief.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I agree with Deputy Kenny that the Minister's integrity is not in question. I imagine he is over-stretched, as are his officials. However the Minister has put himself at risk with the answers provided to the House this afternoon. We are both agreed that the reason the Minister took his stated position on 29 September was because of the rumours that were rife concerning Anglo Irish Bank,...

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Anglo Irish Bank had been in with your Department expressing its concerns for the previous three weeks.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister said that his officials briefed him extensively. How in the name of God could they have briefed him extensively and not brought this to his attention? Why did he not meet with the authors of the report? This is a serious matter. The Minister will recall that not long ago we gave Deputy Micheál Martin a fool's pardon when he had not read the papers about the nursing homes.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: We cannot give that to the Minister for Finance who is mortgaging the country's future on a decision regarding which he did not read all the information available.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Did the author not tell the Minister about this transaction?

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach agree that it is now urgent that this House establish an all-party commission on banking which would investigate recent events and make recommendations on the future conduct of banking in Ireland, in the interest of the country's reputation?

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Are there not a whole——

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: There are a whole number of different issues causing widespread concern among the public. If this House has a role, surely it ought to be examining the implications of what has come into the public domain in recent months——

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: ——and not just yesterday. This House ought to put a number of Deputies who know something about banking on a commission which would investigate these issues and make recommendations for the future. We will end up like Reykjavik if we allow things to proceed——

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: ——as they are proceeding at the moment.