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Financial Resolution No. 1: Income Tax (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Ceann Comhairle should not invite me to speak about BIK on preferential loans etc., as it would drag me into territory into which I do not wish to go.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not take any great issue with either of these resolutions. The reduction in excise duty in respect of home heating oil is timely, appropriate and necessary. Fuel poverty is a major issue for a good number of families. It is also an issue for some elderly people. As has been remarked, and notwithstanding the apparent volte face by the regulator in respect of gas and electricity...

Budget Statement 2006 (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Dear Dick——

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The figures come from a reply to a parliamentary question.

Departmental Bodies. (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the outcome of the November 2006 meeting of the cross-departmental team on housing and infrastructure; when the team is next due to meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38683/06]

Departmental Bodies. (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the committee done any assessment of the likely impact of traffic, about 6,500 trucks, that will spill on to the M50 and the toll bridge when the Dublin Port tunnel opens? Is the Taoiseach's face still set against throwing open the toll bridge, even on a trial basis, to see what the impact would be? In respect of the Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, deciding not to put any figures...

Departmental Bodies. (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I asked a question on the cost benefit analysis in terms of the metro.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the Government further refined its thinking on whether it is likely that we will have referenda or a referendum on children's rights or the protection of the child between now and the general election?

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is it intended to deal with both matters?

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There are two different matters involved. One arises out of the statutory rape issue and the other relates to children's rights.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: On both.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will deal with the Taoiseach's last point about resources. The budgetary provision for mental health services, as a proportion of the health budget, was 8.96% in 1997. The figure was 8.6% in 1998, 8.21% in 1999, 7.73% in 2000, 7.09% in 2001, 6.9% in 2002, 6.8% in 2003 and so on. The fact in black and white is that the proportion of the health budget spent on mental health services is...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Government is out by almost €8 billion in its projections in terms of budgetary forecast. We will be boasting later today about how much money we have, yet there are parents at their wits end trying to find respite care or an assessment service for their children in these circumstances. The Taoiseach seems to think it is fine that the Minister of State, Deputy Tim O'Malley, comes in...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Any man who would say the professionals are manipulating the waiting lists to encourage their sense of self-belief and power, thus leaving parents in the aforementioned circumstances, is not suited to be charge of this area. All the Taoiseach is doing is standing up to defend the indefensible. Once more he is demonstrating no accountability. Will he deal with this problem or turn a blind...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not going to reply to the Taoiseach in kind. I regret very much that he does not regard this as an appropriate subject to talk about. If he talks to parents, including some of those who appeared on the programme, he will understand why the issue is appropriate for the House to debate. He will also understand that all the professionals have concluded that early intervention is the key.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That is exactly the issue in question, even if the Taoiseach cannot understand it. The facts to which I refer are attributable to the HSE and not to me. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, should stay out of it — he is only trying to divert the Taoiseach. Let the Taoiseach think for himself.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Three thousand——

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: According to the HSE, 3,000——

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is Deputy Roche finished? According to the HSE, 3,000 children await assessment, bearing in mind that early intervention is the key. Consider the provision of inpatient child and adolescent beds. It is said that 236 are required while there are 20 available.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The areas of greatest need are the areas of least staffing. If this is not an appropriate subject to raise in this House, I do not know what is. If, in two days, the Taoiseach is to accept the resignation or retirement of one of his Ministers of State, could anything be more appropriate than his acceptance, in two days, of the resignation or retirement of two of his Ministers of State? The...