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Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (7 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 239: To ask the Minister for Finance the areas of the new national development plan for which his Department has direct responsibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2248/07]

Official Engagements. (7 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will a make statement on the outcome of his meeting with President Hosni Mubarak. [42604/06]

Official Engagements. (7 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of the December 2006 EU summit in Brussels. [43950/06]

Official Engagements. (7 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on meetings he had with other EU leaders on the margins of the EU summit in Brussels. [43951/06]

Official Engagements. (7 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach his plans for official trips abroad during the first five months of 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43956/06]

Official Engagements. (7 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his visit to the Gulf states. [43957/06]

Official Engagements. (7 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his recent visit to Saudi Arabia. [2034/07]

Official Engagements. (7 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 18: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his participation in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. [2691/07]

Official Engagements. (7 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Regarding the Taoiseach's meeting with President Mubarak in particular, did he discuss the Palestinian question with him? President Mubarak is on record as saying that he fully supports the position of Palestinian President Abbas for the negotiation of a government of national unity. Since then, the Taoiseach will know that matters have severely deteriorated. There is a state of virtual...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I want to ask the Taoiseach two or three straightforward questions about the nurses' dispute. I read in the newspapers this morning that more Government backbenchers believe that they are likely to lose their seats than otherwise because of the manner of the handling of this dispute. Up and down the country the Taoiseach will have encountered the widespread and acute concern about the state...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: In particular, does the Government require the nurses' unions to resolve this matter through the benchmarking process? Is that the only process open to them? If there is an alternative route, will the Taoiseach tell the House what it is? On the particular claims, does the Taoiseach accept that his friends, the builders, are the people mainly responsible for driving nurses to industrial...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has described for the House the role of his backbenchers as messengers and postmen and he has described how the benchmarking process works and what it was set up to do. He has also told us he has met the nurses and sympathises with them. We have all met the nurses and we all have admiration for the work they do. I am trying to establish what the Government's policy is on the...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 317: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the period by which waiting times will be reduced in relation to the A Vision For Change document and its reference to mental health services for children; the number of children's in-patient facilities that will be available within the next 12 month period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3642/07]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 508: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received a request from a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24 for assistance in order to complete the railing around the school; the length of time this request has been with her Department; if she will sanction the grant requested in view of a number of breaches of the school perimeter and the incomplete nature of the...

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I raised this matter with the Tánaiste last Thursday, when two Bills were to be withdrawn, the Comhairle (Amendment) Bill and the Money Advice and Budgeting Service Bill, which would assist very poor people in getting access to credit and money advice. There is now only one Bill to be withdrawn, although there were two on Thursday. Why is that? Overworked journalists have not had an...

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: It will be there for the next five.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: He is certainly concerned about it.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach say whether the Minister for Health and Children was aware of the loophole that has been revealed regarding health insurance and new entrants?

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: When will the promised amending legislation be brought before the House? The matter we have just discussed, the regulation and licensing of auctioneers and estate agents, is not on the schedule of promised legislation for the current session. Will that legislation be brought before the House before the Government goes on pension? My third question is about the referendum. The Taoiseach...

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: That is an important matter. The Taoiseach certainly left the impression that the Government had dealt with this matter today——