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Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What is the answer to the question I asked?

Written Answers — World Trade Negotiations: World Trade Negotiations (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the content of her recent discussions with the EU Trade Commissioner in relation to the World Trade Organisation arrangements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24614/06]

Written Answers — European Council Meetings: European Council Meetings (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the next Council of European Agriculture Ministers will be meeting; what is on the agenda; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24618/06]

Written Answers — Legal Proceedings: Legal Proceedings (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 154: To ask the Taoiseach the number of extant legal proceedings to which the Attorney General is a party or a notice party in which the constitutional validity or consistency of an enactment has been challenged, indicating the enactments involved and the present stage of those proceedings; the number of those cases in which a Minister of the Government is not also a party,...

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 310: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of meetings of the EU 133 Committee which have discussed issues relating to the ACP-EU Economic Partnership agreements since negotiations were launched on 27 September 2002; the number of those meetings a member of the staff of Irish Aid attended; the grade of those Irish Aid officials who attended; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 314: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the call made by the Irish Commission for Justice and Social Affairs of the Irish Bishops Conference for the Government to pressure the EU and the UN to apply sanctions against the perpetrators of the Darfur conflict; if he will use his offices as a member of the EU and the UN to ensure an increase in the...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Where? There is no new school in Laytown.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: They do not have a new school.

Order of Business. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I once again ask the Taoiseach why the Government is contriving to wait until the Houses are in recess before publication of long-awaited reports. In particular, what in heaven's name is the reason for the Barr report not being made available? It is not credible to say as the Taoiseach did, presumably in good faith, that it is ready to go to the printers. In 2006, that makes no sense. I...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: A Cheann Comhairle——

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the apparent disintegration of the Government and what signal that sends out to those hard-working families who are on the road at 6.30 a.m. How can those people expect a divided, dysfunctional and out of touch——

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——Government in which Ministers, even in the same party, will not talk to each other and whose backbenchers are in revolt, to address the issues of concern to them?

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Ahern, want to make his maiden speech at this juncture? If he wants to make an intervention, he should make it properly and I will give way to him.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: People are interested in whether their children will get a place in school this autumn. They are concerned about class sizes or their mother being left on a hospital trolley. They are concerned about the drugs misuse epidemic, now worse than it was when Veronica Guerin was murdered. They are concerned about energy resources, spiralling house prices, inflation, interest rates, neighbourhood...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach will now be a member of the back bench committee in revolt. Just because we have enjoyed more than a dozen years of economic growth, the Taoiseach is of the view no problems need be attended to. Of course, we have enjoyed a dozen years of growth, but we have serious problems that must be confronted. Judging from the Taoiseach's response to Deputy Kenny, his view of the authors...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Half of what the Taoiseach told Deputy Kenny about medical cards and other issues is not in accordance with the facts. To dismiss the authors of a report that claims the health service is second only to Lithuania and argue they are talking through their hats shows the Government is simply out of touch, especially when one considers the large amounts of money pumped into the system after nine...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach needs a rest. He instanced decisions taken when I was at the Cabinet table, but I remind him that last week he eulogised a man with whom he shared the Cabinet table, who shut 22 hospitals between 1987 and 1989. I am not sure what a stroll down memory lane does to address the issues confronting people today. The Taoiseach is fearful about what will happen to the country when I...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: We will leave the hyena laughs out of it for the moment. I will return to the issues about which the backbenchers are concerned. It is clear that they are the same issues I have been raising in this House, which, according to their spokesman, they bring to parliamentary party meetings and, to quote him: "they never get any further". Now the Taoiseach is trying to tell us he welcomes this...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Everybody knows that the outsourcing of such a job must be certified by the European Commission. Now the Government finds it cannot make the payments and it must go back to the drawing board. The Government appears unable to make any simple decision or do any of the simple things well. When that happens to a Government, the best thing the Taoiseach can do if he is really concerned about the...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach referred to people who pay taxes. There are many tax compliant citizens who pay more tax than was bargained for in the budget, but what about the abuse of tax avoidance schemes by super-earners? We have been told for the past five or six years that these loopholes would be shut off. They have not been shut off and the situation is worsening. Ordinary people earning ordinary...