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Leaders' Questions (1 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Forgive me for being somewhat sceptical that if the Minister has not done it in four and a half years, he will do so in four and a half months.

Office of the Attorney General. (1 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement in regard to the Sullivan report on events in the Office of the Attorney General leading up to the A case. [28238/06]

Office of the Attorney General. (1 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Sullivan report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28239/06]

Office of the Attorney General. (1 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach when he expects to receive the first report of the three-person panel of experts to advise upon and review, twice yearly, risk management procedures within the Office of Attorney General; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28372/06]

Office of the Attorney General. (1 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank the Taoiseach for an unusually comprehensive reply. It will bear reading. As he is aware, the Sullivan report listed seven different stages at which the Attorney General himself ought to have been briefed on the statutory rape issue. It only happened at one stage, namely, the initial stage of briefing counsel. We know the issues that derived from that. It is not a question of...

Office of the Attorney General. (1 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about a different aspect of this. He may recall the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, recently explaining on a public television programme the collapse of Dáil business on three occasions this term. He linked it to a logjam in the drafting section of the Parliamentary Counsel's section of the Attorney General's...

Leaders' Questions (1 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister for Social and Family Affairs recently said he was alarmed to find that so many poor people are in the grip of money lenders. He went on to say that the scale of the problem was alarming, given that the clients of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service are in debt this year to the tune of €65 million. The Minister said this was outrageous. In case the Taoiseach missed the...

Leaders' Questions (1 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Every time the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform gives an interview, the dog barks uncontrollably.

Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (26 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the reason he did not use the offices of the Arts Council in relation to deciding on the allocation of the recently announced €16.4 million in arts grants from surplus money in his Department's budget; the efforts he made to ensure this money was spread evenly throughout the country and that smaller projects in one particular...

Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I have a transcript of the press conference given by the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government with special responsibility for housing and urban renewal, Deputy Noel Ahern, on 30 August. He said that property speculators "should be taxed out of existence" and that they should play the commodities market on the London stock exchange in oil,...

Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: While I am dealing with the populist wing of Fianna Fáil, may I ask the Tánaiste about the announcement made to Ursula Halligan last Sunday by the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Brennan, that he had discovered money lenders were operating in our society and that he would introduce legislation to cap interest rates?

Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I had the opportunity in Kenmare to clarify that the Tánaiste's press clipping service is not always reliable. Will the Government advance legislation to cap interest rates applied by money lenders?

Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I heard the statement with my own ears and saw it with my own eyes.

Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There is no point equivocating at this point. The Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Brennan, is very adept at releasing statements every weekend and he is rarely pursued in this regard. We can exchange banter all day. Is legislation to cap money lending rates on the way?

Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What of the Good Friday Agreement?

Decentralisation Programme. (25 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department who have applied for relocation under the Government's decentralisation programme; the number that have been relocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30877/06]

Decentralisation Programme. (25 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach mentioned that infrastructure is visible. What is his view on the Economic and Social Research Institute's comment that the State is spending €1 billion on offices for civil servants who already have offices? The Taoiseach has said he can see officials moving every day in the Department, but how does that accord with the fact that fewer than 750 officials are prepared to...

Decentralisation Programme. (25 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Yes. Arising from the experience of the Taoiseach in his Department, is it not time to admit that the political stroke to transfer 10,300 civil servants is in a shambles and——

Decentralisation Programme. (25 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——that we need to go back to the drawing board?

Decentralisation Programme. (25 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: My question derives from the Taoiseach's experience in his Department. The decentralisation programme is not happening in the Department of the Taoiseach. It will not be delivered. It is damaging the Civil Service. It is duplicating buildings. It is creating a parallel Civil Service. Does the Taoiseach agree that we should go back to the drawing board for a negotiated and planned...