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Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister lives a very sheltered life.

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Younger Members of the House do not call them record players anymore.

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I confess to being a sceptic on this Bill. It is designed as an interim high-profile response to the public disorder resulting from binge drinking on our streets and public places. It is true that public disorder and anti-social behaviour are worse now than ever before and it is probably true that alcohol abuse is a major contributing factor to this phenomenon. Is more legislation the...

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I apologise, I have misjudged him. I thought his crankiness down through the years was due to the fact——

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: In any event——

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I refer to the timescale and the fact that the preferred bidder is Mr. Bernard McNamara. Regarding the recent controversy in respect of Dublin City Council and five housing projects, we sought an assurance from the Minister that he had examined the reasons Mr. McNamara's company withdrew from the housing projects in the city and that the Minister is satisfied that Mr. McNamara has the...

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: There will be a meeting at midnight of senior mandarins in his Department because of the remarks I made, which were not attacking the official, whom I did not name. The official said that the Department is dysfunctional. I can read it out again if the Minister wishes. That was the import of what he said. The proposition that the paper can be quoted in learned journals on criminology but...

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: That is not something the Minister would do.

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Charlie Flanagan referred to the conference of yesterday and today and to the remarks of Professor Ian O'Donnell who highlighted again why experts in penal policy and criminology do not think very much of the course we have taken. I would like to advert to a different speaker at yesterday's conference, a paragraph of whose contribution I wish to put on the record. That is the...

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: It is good that he went to the conference. I wish there was more of that and that the Minister would take on board some of the conclusions from such conferences.

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: There is little evidence of it in this particular regard. I am reminded of the remark by the late Mr. Justice Kinlen when he said that rather than an Inspector of Prisons and Places of Detention what we need is an inspector of the Department. It seems to me that there is probably some merit in what he said. To return to where we started, namely, the question of the Houses of the Oireachtas...

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Mr. McDowell bought the land many years ago——

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ——and the Minister is responding to what was said.

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: If that is what happened it is a very positive step. I am delighted to see the Minister is more responsive than the two people who held the office prior to him. If we are dealing in logic does he not accept in turn that it is hardly a big deal to involve them now that the decision has been made? I am sure they found the presentation very informative but all we are doing today is...

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: That is a shame. If an assistant secretary in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, who are not noted for their frankness, were to make a statement like the one made by the assistant secretary in the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, one can imagine what the IFA response would be. If an assistant secretary in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment made...

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: We are dealing with facilities in small-scale institutions. What is in Kilsallaghan now is a combination of small-scale institutions. I would have welcomed engagement with the Minister at an earlier stage of this process to talk more about these small-scale institutions and how they will be configured on the new Kilsallaghan site. However, we did not get that. We have not got a statement...

Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (19 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 35: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections carried out by the Labour Inspectorate to ensure that the minimum wage was being paid in relation to 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008; the number of breaches detected; the number of prosecutions initiated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23963/08]

Written Answers — Wage Differentials: Wage Differentials (19 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 70: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average industrial wage earned by a male worker and female worker respectively and the average male earnings and average female earnings generally; if she plans additional measures to help bridge the male/female earnings gap; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23964/08]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (19 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: With the agreement of the House I will share time with Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh. I received a message on Monday last to say Committee Stage of the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill, scheduled for this morning, could not proceed because the Minister would be in the House at the same time dealing with this motion concerning the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998. Members...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (19 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ——asking the House to leave the Offences against the State Acts in place on the assertion of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform that he has intelligence to the effect that the security of the State warrants the retention of the emergency legislative measures. There are very few Members who know better than the Ceann Comhairle what is involved. We had a committee that...