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Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: This is entirely unlike the Tánaiste.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: How long is this Second Stage speech going on for? Can anyone get this man a pulpit.

Price Inflation. (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if the Government is planning to seek the removal of tobacco from the range of items used to measure inflation; the basis on which this is being done; if consultation has been held with the Central Statistics Office on the matter; if discussions have been held with the social partners on the proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1005/07]

Price Inflation. (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: What is the Minister of State saying? Did he say the attempt to excise tobacco has not died but will be raised again when something — I am not sure what — happens regarding Towards 2016? The Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, pledged to make this change in the budget but discussions with the social partners obviously did not go well. Does the Minister of State agree that it would be...

Price Inflation. (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: While I fully agree with the Minister of State about respecting the independence of the CSO, his Government sought the excision of tobacco from the calculation of the CPI. The Minister for Finance said as much in his budget speech. Given that no Member of the House is trying to traduce the independence of the Central Statistics Office, the Minister of State and I are not in dispute on this...

Price Inflation. (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I will repeat my question because I still have not received an answer. Does the Government intend to seek again to excise tobacco as an element in the CPI?

Price Inflation. (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: If the lads agree to it, the Government will agree with them.

Price Inflation. (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I hope the zips were not in the raincoats.

Price Inflation. (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: It is a basket case.

Price Inflation. (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister of State said it is the policy of Government, given the opportunity and agreement with the social partners, to remove tobacco from the calculation of the consumer price index. I hope, notwithstanding the very close relationship, that the social partners will never change their view on this issue because, however much we in this House might deplore smoking — it is one small...

Order of Business (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Let the record show that the Tánaiste is addicted to this House.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: That is right; the Tánaiste should sit down.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: On a point of information——

Order of Business (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Is there any reason, and maybe the Tánaiste would agree why——

Order of Business (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not speaking on the issue. I am raising a point of information.

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: When we were kicked out in 1997, more than 9% of people were unemployed. That was better, however, than the 14.2% who were unemployed in 1992 when the Progressive Democrats Party was kicked out. Deputy Kenny and I may have chalked up 50 years between us but the Tánaiste would be well on the way to that number if his constituents had not given him a long holiday every time they saw his...

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I thought the other man who is usually in that chair would say anything but, by God, he is only in the ha'penny place with this guy. The Tánaiste fed the file into the system. Did he read any of the letters?

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Did he reply to any of the letters?

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste said that ten years ago we did nothing. Those children are aged three and a half and four and a half years. They were not born when we were in government. If the basis of our exchanges are to be what happened ten years ago, from the man who said he would abolish stamp duty because we did not need the resources, what is the point in telling these parents we have the most...

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: ——let alone take any action on it. He has the sheer brass neck to get up here and point the finger at the party that caused the Department of Equality and Law Reform at Cabinet rank to come into existence.