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Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: One would think that in 2007 the people of Galway would be entitled to clean water. That could have been provided with the €62 million. There are so many things which could have been done, for example, for children with autism, the employment of child psychologists and to address the needs of people desperate for home help hours. We wasted €62 million on machines which the Taoiseach...

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: What kind of country is this?

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I asked the Taoiseach whether people will vote by way of electronic voting on this occasion, but I did not hear his reply. I heard him say he is embarrassed——

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: On the last day of this Dáil, it is the first time I have ever heard the Taoiseach admitting to being embarrassed, and he ought to be embarrassed. Some €162 million has gone down the drain, and that is symptomatic of the waste we have witnessed. The Taoiseach appears to be suggesting that because we are spending €50 billion we can afford to waste those millions. That is what the...

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Some €162 million was wasted on PPARS and the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, responded that in the context of things, it is a very small amount of money. Many needs could have been addressed by these moneys which have been frittered away, yet the Taoiseach can only admit to being embarrassed and revert to his "give up your ould pencils" raiméis that he goes on with.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Here we are at the end of ten years of Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats in government and it has taken them until now to build 10 km of road without going dramatically over budget.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: What the people do not realise is that they have paid twice what they were told they would pay for three lines on the Luas and that they have received only two lines that do not connect up.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The record——

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Waste.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: My opening sentence related to waste.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: No matter where I look on the other side, I see it looking back at me, waste.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: It is a waste of taxpayers' money.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: It is remarkable that the Minister, Deputy Cullen, has the neck to put his head above the parapet.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: He is the main architect of waste.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: This is followed by consultants, consultants, consultants. The Government cannot make a decision about anything but employing as many consultants as it can.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: How many consultants' reports have been implemented?

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Keaveney should not pick the last day of this Dáil to make her maiden speech.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Are we to have electronic voting and, if not, what will be done with those infernal machines?

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach apologise to the Irish people for the waste of money involved? There are many other areas in which the Government has distinguished itself by wasting money. We are entitled to know, if this is the last day of this Dáil, whether we will vote by way of electronic voting. I ask the Taoiseach to tell us if that is the case. If not, what will be done with the machines?

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the contribution his Department has made to increase the use of the Irish language countrywide; the level of success achieved in regard to achieving this aim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15009/07]