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Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: It states that the two biggest banks——

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: It states that the Government has "dropped an insistence that the industry as a whole help to pay the costs involved in settling the debts of any insolvent bank".

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: That was the biggest condition. The Government has exempted the two biggest banks and the other major bank, the Ulster Bank, is not in. This means the taxpayer is entirely exposed and entirely vulnerable to any default.

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is not seriously suggesting that Irish Life & Permanent would bail out an unnamed bank if it goes bankrupt.

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: This is a coach and four.

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach denying it or not?

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is not making it clear.

Official Engagements. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: This has blown a hole in the scheme as wide as the House.

Environmental Policy. (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 38: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he is taking to address the four key environmental challenges, including mainstreaming environmental considerations across all sectors of the economy, identified in the Environmental Protection Agency report on the state of the environment published in October 2008; and if he will make a statement...

Environmental Policy. (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 59: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he is taking to address the four key environmental challenges, including reversing environmental degradation through water pollution and the conservation status of habitats, identified in the Environmental Protection Agency report on the state of the environment published in October 2008; and if he...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to share time with Deputy Jack Wall. It is difficult to reply to this budget because it is a moving target. The remarks of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, who introduced it, ought to be mentioned as a starting point. He said that it was "no less than a call to patriotic action". If ever there was a more inappropriate call to the flag, I cannot recall it. To summon...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Nobody denies that the country is facing the worst economic circumstances in a generation and only the most partisan would deny that the crisis is of the Government's own making. Time and again the Minister for Finance pledged, in his speech and beforehand, that his guiding principle would be the protection of the vulnerable and what he called "the little people". It is a cause for concern...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: How can anyone argue that a cap of two support teachers is justified, irrespective of the size of the school or the number of non-national children? The decision to abandon the effort to improve the pupil-teacher ratio and to take a significant step backwards has properly provoked strenuous protests from teacher leaders who have tended heretofore to be supportive of the Government. Far from...

Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: The Deputy should ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, because he would want to install an energy saving bulb.

Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: On promised legislation in respect of the removal of the automatic entitlement to medical cards for those aged over 70 years, will the Tánaiste confirm if it is the case, as I was informed yesterday by doctors, that there exists in the contract signed by former Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Micheál Martin, with the doctors a term that the entitlement may not be removed——

Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ——without the explicit agreement of the IMO? Does such a term exist in the contract and will the Tánaiste leave a copy of it in the Library for us to examine?

Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: The matter relates to promised legislation.

Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Can the Tánaiste say if that is not true?

Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: So, it is true that the former Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Micheál Martin, signed a contract that states doctors must agree to the removal of the entitlement before the Government can change it? That is unbelievable.

Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I will come back to the matter.