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Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on meetings he had with other leaders on the margins of the EU summit in Brussels. [23540/06]

Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What is the budget for the campaign to combat stigma and discrimination against people with HIV-AIDS in Ireland? Who is responsible for running the campaign? Have there been discussions with the relevant voluntary organisations?

Order of Business. (21 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I have become very concerned in the past few weeks over the delay regarding the Barr report. I get the impression the Government is trying to delay certain reports until after the Dáil goes into recess. I am very upset about the issue. John Carthy, a young man, was killed in 2000. What kind of modern democracy have we that we still have not got the report in 2006?

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach will recall that one of the main factors giving rise to punitive taxation over a generation was the massive, widespread and endemic scale of tax evasion. He will recall that the Minister for Finance of the day used to claim there was no pot of gold out there and it took various tribunals and good journalism to highlight that this was a society in which tax evasion was normal and...

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I agree with the Taoiseach that nobody in this House is against wealth creators. For that reason, we have a very low corporate tax regime and a number of instruments that can be used to minimise tax, yet we have this scale of evasion. With all due respect to the much improved revenue collection facilities, the settlement does not owe anything to the Revenue Commissioners but was the result of...

Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a new study from the Combat Poverty Agency which shows that the increasing levels of indirect taxation here are having a disproportionate effect on those on lower incomes; the efforts he is making to ensure that those on low incomes receive sufficient supports to deflect the impact of these...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 260: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if, in view of the indications of continuing significant levels of consumer dissatisfaction with Internet service providers levels of service and the conclusion of his Department in its January 2006 discussion paper, Broadband Demand, he will consider consumer rights legislation specific to the...

Written Answers — Port Development: Port Development (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 334: To ask the Minister for Transport if his approval has been sought for a proposal from the Shannon Foynes Port Company to sell off Limerick Port; if his approval has been given for such a proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23868/06]

Written Answers — Port Development: Port Development (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 335: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on whether the proposal to sell off the functioning and profitable port of Limerick is consistent with the objectives of national marine transport policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23869/06]

Written Answers — Port Development: Port Development (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 336: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on whether the proposal to sell off the functioning and profitable port of Limerick is consistent with the objectives of stated EU marine transport policy which is to encourage the transport of freight by shipping rather than road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23870/06]

Written Answers — Port Development: Port Development (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 337: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps he intends to take to ensure the continued operation of Limerick Docks in view of its importance to existing users and to the Limerick area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23871/06]

Written Answers — Port Development: Port Development (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 338: To ask the Minister for Transport the guidelines or procedures in place where a State owned port company, established under the Harbours Act 1996, proposes to dispose of plans, particularly with regard to ensuring openness and transparency in regard to any transaction and value for money for taxpayers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23873/06]

Order of Business. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: On that point, does the Taoiseach know whether the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform had anything to do with the paternity of that Bill?

Order of Business. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Does it not?

Order of Business. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It arises in the PDs I hear. For almost two months I have raised the matter of the Dalton report. Everyone, including the media, has received this report except Members of this House. I keep being told by the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste that it will be out soon. Whatever is going on, two months later one cannot get a look at the report.

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: On the latest developments on electronic voting, two Ministers persisted with the purchase of equipment costing €52 million that has never been used in a general or local election. That is €52 million of taxpayers' money down the drain in one of the biggest examples of waste by this Government. It is worth recalling that a number of experts outside this House warned both former Ministers...

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What will the Taoiseach do about this mess? Will he abandon this crazy scheme and see if he can find anybody gullible enough anywhere in the western world to take the machines off his hands? Does the Taoiseach agree with the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government that they will not be used in the next general election? Does he agree that nothing symbolises the...

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: One thing the Taoiseach has managed up to now differently from his Ministers is not to convey arrogant dismissiveness of the views of others, but he now seems to be venturing into that and demonstrating lack of sure-footedness in other areas as well. The Commission on Electronic Voting issued a report that was damning in its criticism of the system the Taoiseach now seeks to give the...

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: When will the Government move to end, and cut its losses on, this issue? Nothing the Taoiseach has done symbolises more the waste and incompetence associated with his decision making than this issue. Did anybody ever go into one of the Taoiseach's clinics over the past ten years and ask for electronic voting? What is the point in comparisons with other democracies with first-past-the-post...

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am saying the Government is flawed.