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Order of Business (12 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Yesterday a Minister of State made a serious allegation in an early morning interview against an institution established by the State.

Order of Business (12 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The last time a Minister of State gave such an interview he fell asleep on the telephone. Does the Minister plan to keep Ministers of State away from early morning interviews or is there anything we can do to contain them?

Order of Business (12 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What about SSIAs?

Order of Business (12 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What of parents who have taken out SSIAs?

Order of Business (12 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Does it arise that parents who opened SSIAs will be penalised in terms of grants for their college-going children because they accepted the offer of Government regarding these accounts?

Order of Business (12 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Government is befuddled and confused, as usual.

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the situation in regard to a company (details supplied); the agents or agencies currently investigating this matter; the approximate timetable for these investigations; the date on which his attention was first drawn to this case; the agent or agency that brought it to his attention; if legislation, either primary or...

Written Answers — Inflation Rate: Inflation Rate (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he intends to take to protect consumers and businesses from spiralling inflation; if adjustments in the budget allocations within his Department or its agencies are necessary in view of the prediction at the time of budget 2006 of average annual inflation of 2.7% compared to the expected situation of 5% by end...

Order of Business (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That is for sure.

Census of Population. (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the preliminary census results published in July 2006. [28249/06]

Census of Population. (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Has he received advice from the CSO on the extent to which the figures might represent an understatement of the reality? I refer here to the anecdotal evidence of which we are all aware regarding enumerators encountering great difficulty in effecting entry to certain housing developments and catching people when they were at home. I was informed...

Census of Population. (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Minister of State seek information on the matter to which I refer? I am not imputing any lack of professionalism or anything else on the part of the CSO, far from it, but I have received direct anecdotal evidence of difficulties being encountered, which did not exist previously, in terms of securing the co-operation of everyone in particular households, gaining access to some...

Census of Population. (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I was just testing the Ceann Comhairle and I am glad to see that, even in the absence of the Taoiseach, he is alert.

Unemployment Levels. (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There are 8,000 bicycles in Beijing.

Unemployment Levels. (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is it 9 million?

Order of Business (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Minister state when the Book of Estimates will be published? Why did the Tribunals of Inquiry Bill fall off the schedule for today and tomorrow and when is it to be reintroduced?

Order of Business (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the Government cancelled it or rethought it?

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I want to ask the Minister for Finance about a second botched privatisation that we have experienced in recent days. The Minister will have heard a wide range of commentators on the mess that now confronts the Government. He will have heard the chief economist of the Taoiseach's favourite bank, Friends First, state that the sale of Aer Lingus is the second botched privatisation by the...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: How is it that the Government has been completely taken by surprise? How is it that we have had the Minister for Transport floundering in the fashion we have seen over recent days? A sum of €30 million of taxpayers' money was spent on advisers, yet the Minister comes into the House, flailing around the place, making clear that it never crossed his mind that this might happen and,...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am completely taken aback by the Minister's apparent lack of grasp about what is happening. The shareholding of Ryanair in Aer Lingus is not 15% but 19.2% as every school child in the country knows. How can the Minister state with a straight face that the IPO was successful? The Government sold off the company at a bargain basement price, as everybody in the country now acknowledges. It...