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Written Answers — Health Service Executive Property: Health Service Executive Property (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 400: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received a request from a group (details supplied) in County Kerry for the use of around 30 acres of Health Service Executive lands at Ballydribeen, Killarney, for social housing along with facilities for a number of voluntary, social care and sporting organisations; if favourable consideration will be given to the request,...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Issues: Health and Safety Issues (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 596: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the plight of a number of former miners in the Slieveardagh coalfields in north Tipperary who have suffered significant damage to their health arising from their employment; his views on the establishment of a compensation scheme for such miners similar to that operating in the UK; and...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Issues: Health and Safety Issues (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 627: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the plight of a number of former miners in the Slieveardagh coalfields in north Tipperary who have suffered significant damage to their health arising from their employment; his views on the establishment of a compensation scheme for such miners similar to that operating in the UK; and if he...

Written Answers — Compensation Payments: Compensation Payments (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 766: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her Department has plans to compensate farmers who lost large sums of money with the collapse of the Tralee Beef and Lamb factory in 2001, particularly in view of the fact that some suppliers lost tens of thousands of euro; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14603/07]

Order of Business (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I omitted to join with my colleagues in congratulating the Taoiseach on his new happy condition as a grandfather. I presume he is as aware as I that there is a reputable body of medical literature stating that very young children should be protected from too many flashlights and cameras and that he will observe that in the three or four weeks ahead.

Order of Business (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: On 24 April 2002, the House was adjourned sine die. In answer to my question on the private hospital building programme, the Taoiseach seemed to tell me that the election would be on 17 May. Having regard to that, will he assure the House that he will not do as he did the last time when he slunk in here in the still of the night?

Order of Business (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: It is a shame the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, will leave this Dáil like he entered it, namely, wrong. I was manning these benches on my own like Horatio on the night in question.

Order of Business (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach assure the House that he will not repeat that performance?

Order of Business (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: His predecessors gave notice to the leaders of the Opposition of their intention to dissolve the Dáil. For example, in 1997, Deputy Harney and the Taoiseach were invited to the House and were present at the time. In light of the imminent dissolution of the House, will the Taoiseach give a personal guarantee that the ratio between the number of Deputies for each constituency and the...

Order of Business (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: It is a long way to go for breakfast.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: That is another brief the Minister, Deputy Martin, did not get.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I join my colleagues in offering my condolences and those of my party to the relatives and friends of the Dunne family on the poignant tragedy that has been visited upon them and their community. In particular I offer condolences to Mrs. Mary Dunne, who lost a husband and two sons in recent weeks. I refer the Taoiseach to today's Order Paper, in particular to the instruments laid before the...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: She did not consult the chief executive of the HSE about this initiative. Why was a measure, enshrined in statute by the Houses of the Oireachtas, which requires the Minister to take a certain action, not implemented? Why is there a headlong rush, without any democratic mandate, to engage in a major shift in public policy towards an American style of for-profit health services, with the...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: If there is anything more indicative of the incompetence of the Government, it is the change in direction from the health strategy that it campaigned on to provide 3,000 public hospital beds in 2002 to this American system, ideologically driven by the Minister's advisers. Does the Government, on the eve of the general election, still propose to proceed with these contracts? When will the...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: ——many of whom are as concerned about this matter as we are on this side of the House? One of his backbenchers even claims that one of his Ministers has assured him that it will not happen in any event and that "Harney", as he put it, will be thwarted. Is that the case?

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach agree that an admitted breach of the Act is not an administrative oversight? If the Act has been breached, surely what has been done is open to challenge by any person wishing to do so. The Taoiseach took up most of his reply by telling me what is in the Health Act. I know what is in the Health Act. The Minister did not know what was in the Act. The reason the...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: ——will worsen that two tier system. The Taoiseach will permit the cherry-picking of the profitable procedures. He will turn the public health service into the poor relation. He is pushing ahead with that without any public mandate, knowing that the country is divided on it, knowing he has no support not just from this side of the House but from consultants and professionals working in...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: There are people outside this House who want to know the answers because they know that we need those scarce public lands to provide the extra public hospital beds and the step-down and community care that will free up acute hospital beds and facilitate the smoother functioning of the accident and emergency service. The Taoiseach has no support for this initiative, not even in his own party,...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has no mandate to do it. He did not seek it in the last election.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: He did not seek it in the programme for Government. He campaigned on a health strategy to provide 3,000 public hospital beds which he failed to do.