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Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach stated on a number of occasions that he was advised he had no Revenue obligations. Did he clear with Revenue whether this is the case? Will he do so?

Departmental Agencies. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the costs incurred to date in 2006 by the communications unit in his Department; the projected costs to the end of 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30871/06]

Departmental Agencies. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I cannot think of anything to ask.

Departmental Staff. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach the political staff currently working in his Department; if it is intended to fill the position of special adviser (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30872/06]

Departmental Staff. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach referred to the former special adviser who has now taken up a position with the HSE but no decision has been taken to replace him. Does the Taoiseach intend to replace him? I read in the newspapers that the programme manager for the Tánaiste has departed. Will that position be filled? I am not sure why the Tánaiste would need a programme manager, as the Taoiseach has him...

Departmental Staff. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is not true that the third person is involved full-time in advising the Taoiseach.

Public Private Partnerships. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28245/06]

Public Private Partnerships. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach made a passing reference to the national development plan. How much of the focus of this committee is on getting projects moving that are chartered out at the moment? How much of it is in preparation for the new national development plan to 2013? Has the situation with regard to Cork Airport been clarified? As the Minister, Deputy Martin, knows, there is a major issue about...

Public Private Partnerships. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: On the Taoiseach's reference to the experience of Dublin Port tunnel, is it settled Government policy that the metro will go to the airport? Given the experience we have had with the tunnel and all the safety and other issues that have delayed it and everything that has surrounded it, is the Government settled in the conviction that a metro is the correct way to go as distinct from some form...

Public Private Partnerships. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: So it is settled is the answer.

Public Private Partnerships. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Nobody would ever accuse the Taoiseach of not having a positive approach to life.

Public Private Partnerships. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is this cross-departmental team strictly a co-ordinating team or has it any interaction with outside relevant bodies, even public sector organisations? Is there any structured role or involvement of the National Development Finance Agency and how does this knit into the work of this committee? I refer to the Taoiseach's reply to the same question on 27 June 2006. A large part of his...

Public Private Partnerships. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not going down that road, Ceann Comhairle. Will the Taoiseach say if this is the case? It beggars belief as to the reason it should be the case because there is no constraint on the availability of this technology, as I understand it. If that is the case and if we are going to have to put up with between three and four years of torture while motorists are log jammed on the M50 during...

Public Private Partnerships. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not making a point. I am trying to ask a question. The Ceann Comhairle is intervening all day to reduce question time. I was just about to finish my question.

Public Private Partnerships. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not care who the Ceann Comhairle wants to bring in. I want to ask my question. I ask the Taoiseach if that is the situation is there any reason the State cannot throw open the toll bridge for the period of the refurbishment——

Public Private Partnerships. (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——in a negotiated arrangement with the toll operators? Why can we not do that much?

Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Where stands the Privacy Bill now? I recently read that the matter had been postponed until 2007. Is this true and, if so, will the Government proceed to introduce and enact the Defamation Bill in any case?

Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What Bill is in the Seanad?

Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will it come to this House?

Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I understand that. The Tánaiste is quoted in one of the newspapers as saying that he did not think it was possible to enact that Bill until 2007. Is that purely a question of parliamentary timetabling here or are there issues given rise to by recent events relating to the Privacy Bill and the wisdom of proceeding with the one in the Seanad?