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Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: If anything is repetitive, it is the failure year after year to correct the accident and emergency situation.

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The failure of the Government to deal with the accident and emergency situation is repetitive.

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am trying to establish whether there is a commitment to honouring the pledge of 3,000 more beds in the system given to the Irish people.

Leaders' Questions. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Last week I asked the Taoiseach if it was not the case that the decentralisation programme announced by the then Minister, former Deputy McCreevy, had run aground and the Taoiseach denied it. Three days later he contrived an interview in which he announced the climb-down. This programme was to be the major plank of this Government's term of office and involved the biggest relocation of civil...

Leaders' Questions. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There were so many.

Leaders' Questions. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: At the weekend, I saw the Taoiseach paying tribute to his predecessor, Mr. Haughey. If Mr. Haughey had uttered the misleading statements to the House that the Taoiseach habitually utters, people would have been marching on the streets. I wrote down what the Taoiseach just said. He said, "All the civil servants in the various areas are moving". In what kind of parallel universe is the...

Leaders' Questions. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I listened to a radio interview with the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Éamon Ó Cuív, in which he illustrated the success of the ADM Limited move to Clifden.

Leaders' Questions. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It turned out that no one from ADM Limited moved to Clifden but that they were new staff there. ADM Limited then issued a statement on the same radio programme, stating it is neither a public service nor Civil Service organisation but an independent board and it is none of the Government's business from where it functions.

Leaders' Questions. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: This is the kind of misleading nonsense that is going on. I ask again, what is the timescale for the decentralisation that will go ahead? Will there be negotiations to ensure whatever transfers take place are voluntary? Last week the Taoiseach said that in an organisation with 100 staff and where 99 were moving, the fellow remaining could not expect to get promotion. Apart from the fact that...

Leaders' Questions. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: We will have a situation that has happened to those units already transferred where the specialist staff refuse to move and have to be retained in Dublin city while staff have to be employed. The Government has made commitments to so many towns and villages where there is a definite need to address regional imbalance. These towns do not know whether they will be the beneficiaries of the...

Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the implementation to date of An Agreed Programme for Government. [17141/06]

Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will let the Minister go on a high note and ask him an easy question. When will he get the Shamrock Rovers stadium up and running in Tallaght?

Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Why is the Minister sitting on the Tim Dalton report, so to speak, and when will it become public? As a result of the report, does he envisage changes to the board of Bord na gCon? On promised legislation and against the background of the indolent reply from the Minister for Finance on "Questions and Answers" and the Taoiseach's confused response yesterday, will the Government introduce...

Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am delighted to see the Minister disports himself so frequently on the greyhound tracks of Ireland. It is plain to see that he has not got a great deal else to do, but——

Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: On a very serious matter, will the legislation to prevent the trafficking or women come before the House this session or this year?

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: As far as I am aware, all parties in the House are in favour of a rational planned programme of decentralisation. Deputies on all sides of the House privately concede that the plan announced in 2003 by the then Minister, Mr. McCreevy, is a shambles, is unworkable, is doing permanent damage to the cohesion of governance and is causing serious unjustifiable disruption to families who have long...

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——is that civil and public servants in this city who had married and are rearing families, who have families in education, are forcibly being relocated. That is the issue. It is made plain that if they want promotion, they must be agreeable to transfer. Has the time not come for us to agree an all-party review that would seek to underpin the national spatial strategy announced by the...

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: If we want to transfer people to Athy, Ballina, Clonmel or wherever, we can do it by agreement and by negotiation. That is not what is happening and it is a disgraceful slight on the service given to this State by so many worthy public servants.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I cannot understand how the Taoiseach can say this city cannot take the pressure and that we must alleviate it while the Government ignores its own national spatial strategy. The Taoiseach said the task is to take pressure off this city but when one checks the applicants applying for transfers to various Departments, a high percentage of them are civil and public servants living in parts of...

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——many of the towns to which he has promised to relocate agencies. In the case of Mitchelstown, 200 people from Bus Éireann were promised to be relocated there, but there has not been a single application to transfer there. Does that promise fool the people of Mitchelstown? Some Ministers talk about this process as if we were engaged in a programme of property development. This is not...