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Allocation of Time: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What did the Taoiseach say to the question raised?

Allocation of Time: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The order before us is only 45 minutes old. We asked the Government last week for time to debate these matters and it refused. The Government came around to a position of offering a paltry 35 minutes in its entirety. The haggling has gone on for the week and 45 minutes before we come into the House, we find the order provides for the Taoiseach to make a statement for 15 minutes but that...

Allocation of Time: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: No, he was not.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is fair to state that the Opposition has shown restraint in the matter of the Taoiseach accepting money for private use while a Minister. However, since Mr. Ahern had created a context that sought to explain the Drumcondra moneys in terms of his private family affairs, common decency required that Opposition politicians should have demonstrated a certain restraint. Today, for the first...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste had better grow accustomed to sitting in silence because after this debacle for the Progressive Democrats, the only question he will be permitted to ask in Cabinet is "An bhfuil cead agam dul amach?". The Tánaiste, Deputy McDowell, sought and got a mandate as moral watchdog on Fianna Fáil in government. He has comprehensively failed his first test and, as he stated, a party...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is on record as saying that he did nothing wrong and he repeated this assertion today. The Progressive Democrats are still happy with the excuse of "if he had the benefit of hindsight" and "it was an error", yet the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, is the only Minister to say that what took place in Manchester was unthinkable. All the other Ministers — Deputies...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: If anything demonstrates why this country needs a change of Government, it is the media parade of the Taoiseach's Ministers blind to standards and defending the indefensible.

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to introduce a statutory requirement for novice drivers to continue supervised practice and training after they have passed the practical driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30059/06]

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Transport the projected demand for driving tests in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and the basis for his calculation; the projected supply of driving tests in the same period with a breakdown by source; and the way in which he proposes to reduce average waiting periods to below six weeks. [30058/06]

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste promised a debate.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank the Government Whip for his intervention and accept his word that provision will be made in the schedule next week for an adequate statement and question and answer session on this issue. It is a time-honoured precedent in the House that the Government proposes through the Government Whip the order of the business for the House. The Tánaiste could have done that in the past half...

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Tánaiste be available next week to advise us?

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will take my turn if that is acceptable to the Ceann Comhairle.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not accustomed to the Ceann Comhairle berating me into speaking, but in the circumstances and now that the Chair has called me I will try to think of something to say. I certainly do not know under what Standing Order the Chair has made this decision. I take this opportunity to extend my congratulations to the Tánaiste on his appointment and to wish him well. Any morning one wakes...

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What arrangements does the Tánaiste proposes to permit the House to discuss the issues about which we have all been talking outside the House? He did not answer any questions, including Deputy Gormley's. What arrangements does he offer the House to debate these issues?

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I asked what arrangements have been made for a debate. I cannot believe this is the same Deputy McDowell who came into the House on the Opposition side and called for accountability and standards for many years.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is almost beyond belief that we are forced to listen to a patronising explanation of the normal business of the House, telling us what time questions are taken, how to table them etc. It is contemptuous of this House.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will ask the Tánaiste again, because he is taking the Order of Business.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: We want to know when there will be an adequate ventilation in this House of the issues that are in the public domain.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste is in charge. He said his party would be radical or redundant. It is manifestly redundant now.