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Northern Ireland Issues. (31 Jan 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 28: To ask the Taoiseach when he last met the British Prime Minister to discuss the situation in Northern Ireland; when he expects to meet him next; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43955/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (31 Jan 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 29: To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to visit the United States around St. Patrick's Day 2007; the programme agreed for such a visit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1000/07]

Northern Ireland Issues. (31 Jan 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 31: To ask the Taoiseach if he expects the March 2007 deadline for the holding of new elections in Northern Ireland to be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2032/07]

Northern Ireland Issues. (31 Jan 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 32: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent contacts with the United States Administration. [2033/07]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has completed his consideration of the recent report he received from the Pensions Board entitled Special Savings for Retirement Report on Mandatory Pension System; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43136/06]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he expects that the promised Green Paper on Pensions will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43135/06]

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I remind the Tánaiste of the solemn undertaking he gave to Deputy Broughan about the material submitted to the Deputy by the families of the victims of the Stardust tragedy. He undertook to come back to him within three weeks. Three weeks have elapsed and the families involved are concerned that the Government is trying to evade a decision on this important matter. They went to a lot of...

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——in submitting material to the Tánaiste and they want to know where they stand on the final day of this session. The Minister is about to permit gaming machines in bookmakers in this jurisdiction. Representations have been made to me about the implications of that for vulnerable people in our society.

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Minister intend to prohibit this possibility?

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is amazing that we are sitting as late as is proposed given that the House collapsed on three occasions this term because there was no business. When will the Ceann Comhairle be willing to take the amendment in the name of my colleague, the Labour Party Whip, Deputy Stagg?

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will move it at that stage.

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Pardon?

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: At No. 11?

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It makes life very difficult, Sir, for the conduct of business in the House when motions and so on are lumped together. My colleague, Deputy O'Shea, has a matter of concern to raise, for example, on No. 23 but it has been lumped together with everything else. No. 22a provides for arrangements for a phoney sitting week. The Dáil will reconvene on 24 January 2007 and the motion states: "(i)...

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There seemed to be a certain tolerance while gang lords were knocking off gang lords but we feared that innocent citizens would become victims and that has happened. When does the Tánaiste purport to allow the House to have a full debate on the law and order situation, which is out of hand?

Community Development. (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on whether the RAPID programme has received sufficient resources to allow it to fulfil its mandate towards Ireland's most disadvantaged communities; his further views on whether a new programme is required to target the small number of areas here where deep-seated poverty remains a serious problem; if he is...

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I agree with Deputy Kenny that the notion of a window dressing week in January is entirely unacceptable. At the last count, I understand that 11 guillotines will have operated this week. This is against the background in which the House was suspended three times in this term. It is now proposed that the House should return without an Order of Business, parliamentary questions, Adjournment...

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Let me join the Taoiseach and Deputy Kenny in thanking the Ceann Comhairle and all the staff across the Houses for their unfailing courtesy and contribution throughout the year. I wish them and their families a very happy Christmas. That wish is also extended to all my colleagues. The spirit of Christmas has clearly already descended on the Taoiseach — he has been so inclusive that there...

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Whatever the outcome of the election, I hope we are all well and alive to see it.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach says it is wrong that, at present, people may be forced to remortgage or sell the family home. That is exactly what the Government is providing for with the action it has taken. If the Taoiseach wants to say it went through the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party and that Members were fully aware of what they were doing, so be it.