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Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I appreciate that it has been distributed, but I do not know to whom and maybe the Taoiseach will reveal that.

Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I am asking the Taoiseach whether any initiative, action or legislative measure has been taken or derives from the report.

Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: With regard to costs, is it not the case that the Taoiseach approved and the Attorney General recommended a doubling of fees for solicitors and researchers and that after 2002 the Taoiseach approved an increase of €800 per diem for lawyers at tribunals, including the one under discussion? Does he not agree it is the height of humbug that he and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: In respect of costs, do the negotiations under way encompass all tribunals, their legal staff and legal fees or do they relate only to a single tribunal?

Commemorative Events. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach his plans for an annual commemoration of the Famine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8366/07]

Commemorative Events. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Ceann Comhairle could not wait to get off the earlier batch.

Commemorative Events. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: He went into them early. We have questions down. The Ceann Comhairle made rules previously when he went around the House to ask people to answer questions.

Commemorative Events. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: We should be permitted to ask a question about this.

Commemorative Events. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not see the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources or the two Opposition spokespersons objecting.

Commemorative Events. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: What is the Taoiseach saying? Is he indicating he is of a mind to have a commemorative day for the Famine and it might be 27 May? Surely he is not comparing the Famine to other meanderings that he has engaged in. It is quite a separate matter. What is the event taking place this year, which is not official but has a Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, as a host? Is he paying for it...

Commemorative Events. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I was the first Deputy to raise the matter in this House and I have raised it consistently.

Commemorative Events. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I see through the sham the Taoiseach is organising.

Commemorative Events. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I am a bit stupid, as the Taoiseach remarked last week.

Commemorative Events. (27 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not of the quality of those behind the Taoiseach.

Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (22 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the proposed public private partnership projects under her Department planned under the national development plan in the 2007 to 2013 capital envelope; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10736/07]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the proposed temporary school at Laytown, County Meath; if a site is in the ownership of the State; if it will go ahead for September 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10735/07]

Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: This Bill comprises 128 pages and deals with important issues such as altering the bail regime, reorienting the right to silence and providing for seven days detention and electronic tagging. To propose that it should be guillotined in this fashion cuts across everything this Parliament ought to stand for. I have seen transformations in Deputies who have crossed from this side of the floor...

Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: That is true in my case, but I am not sure about the Deputy.

Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: If that is the case, why can the Tánaiste not permit the Bill to wind to an orderly conclusion? To further stipulate, as the Tánaiste sought to do, that next week we would take Committee and Remaining Stages in the same time slot was simply outrageous. The Whips persuaded the Government Chief Whip to depart from that. What has come over the Tánaiste, who was once a very active and...

Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Yet on these fundamental issues, Members on this side of the House are essentially required to take the Tánaiste on good faith and nod it through. We know where we all went wrong the last time we did that.