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Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The situation is clear in terms of the price that will now be paid for the scheme, so I will only summarise it. With regard to the Taoiseach's remark about the regulations introduced by Deputy Howlin when he was a Minister in 1993 in the aftermath of the gutting of the health services by the outgoing Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government, the regulations introduced were consistent...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Age Action Ireland states: Older people, many of whom have paid their taxes for 40 years, did so in the belief they had a social contract with the State which included provision for their basic health needs. That contract cannot now be torn up. In many cases, older people have spent their entire savings to pay their nursing home bills and their home is their last asset. Age Action Ireland...

Northern Ireland Issues. (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a copy of the report of the sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights into the Barron report on the bombing of Kay's Tavern and other incidents; the action he has taken arising from the report; if he has plans to raise the report with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair; and if he will...

Northern Ireland Issues. (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his meeting on 30 November 2006 with relatives of those who died in the Miami Showband massacre. [41615/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a request from Mr. Paddy MacEntee for a further extension of the deadline for the completion of his investigations into aspects of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; if it is intended to grant the request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42516/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not wish to go back over this territory, but does the Taoiseach have an accord with Mr. MacEntee? This is the seventh deferral. I am sure he has very good reasons for asking for a deferral, but is the February deadline likely to be met on this occasion? No member of the loyalist paramilitaries has ever been charged with atrocities committed south of the Border. Given that an...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Last week the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children put through the Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006, which permits nursing homes to cause clients to sell their family home. He said he had no flexibility on this and he was doing so on the instruction of the Cabinet and on the advice of the Attorney General. There is now statutory underpinning to force the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: This low tax Government will tax us from beyond the grave. I want to raise the issue of an innocent young plumber's assistant who was murdered today in broad daylight. This case follows a situation when, four days ago, a post office worker was shot dead on the streets of Kilkenny during an armed robbery. Three weeks ago a young, separated mother was shot on her own doorstep. A few months...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach may well say we have plenty of laws but the average, law abiding citizen is concerned that we have plenty of deaths as well, plenty of killings, a huge increase in the crime wave, falling detection rates and communities ravaged by drugs and drug pushers. That is the reality. When we think about the cliché uttered by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform wanders from one radio studio to another——

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ----advising on anything that happens to come up and not attending to his primary duty to protect the safety of citizens in their places of work and homes.

Departmental Programmes. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I offer my congratulations to Deputy Haughey on his appointment as a Minister of State and wish him well in the conduct of his Ministry.

Departmental Bodies. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the communications unit within his Department; if it is intended that the unit will continue to work during the period following the dissolution of Dáil Éireann in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38684/06]

Departmental Bodies. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Did the Taoiseach mean to say the communications unit has no contact with Ministers? I understand it does and I understand why it does. The question is what happens in the course of a general election. Officeholders already enjoy a significant advantage by definition. During the course of an election campaign, although Deputies are no longer Members of this House, Ministers continue in...

Departmental Bodies. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The question arises, if no benefit is conferred on Ministers, what is the point of the exercise in the first place. The information being conveyed and the fact of the communication is to brief and support Ministers and make them aware of what is being said, including by the Opposition, and so no. That benefit is not available to Deputies Sargent and Kenny, to me or any other Opposition...

Departmental Expenditure. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the cost in terms of salaries and expenses of political advisers or other political staff within his Department in respect of each year from 2003; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38685/06]

Departmental Expenditure. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Tánaiste have a programme manager and is that manager located in the Taoiseach's office, as was the practice under the previous Tánaiste? Has the Taoiseach's former press officer been replaced or, if not, is it intended to replace him? I am aware he is trying to do for the HSE the job he did so well for the Taoiseach. With regard to the most recent indication by the Taoiseach...

Departmental Expenditure. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: As usual, the Ceann Comhairle is ahead of me.

Departmental Expenditure. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach might therefore address my other questions.

Departmental Expenditure. (12 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is it a State secret?