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Whistleblowers Protection Bill 1999: Motion. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I move: That Dáil Éireann, —recalling calls made by the Irish Nurses Organisation, the Irish Bank Officials Association and the Irish Airline Pilots Association, among others, for comprehensive statutory protection for employees and others who blow the whistle on significant illegal and unacceptable practices that can otherwise become established and remain unidentified over long periods,...

Whistleblowers Protection Bill 1999: Motion. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I applaud the Minister's confidence.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is working from 800,000 units.

Order of Business. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The legislation is two years old.

Order of Business. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the health repayment scheme Bill to refund overcharging in nursing homes be published this session?

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is it not the case that there has been complacency at the heart of this Government, and so long as gangsters were killing each other it did not matter? I warned several times on these benches that the day would come when such gangsters would turn their weapons on innocent citizens. That is what has occurred. Thugs refused admission to a private party came back and casually discharged a...

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Apparently the Judiciary is to blame.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That is a travesty of the truth and the Taoiseach knows it. There is a mandatory life sentence for murder currently. When the Taoiseach states, in replying to Deputy Kenny, that a life sentence is for life and should be so, who changes this? The Taoiseach does, not members of the Judiciary. It is an administrative and political decision for early release. It is not a decision of the Bench.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach knows this is a complete misrepresentation. The Taoiseach is coming along as a sort of casual observer. It is as if he was coming along O'Connell Street, hearing that there were barrels down the back containing petrol bombs. The word was going around the Taoiseach's constituency that hooligans were going to mount an assault the next day. This was if he was an ordinary man on the...

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There were some 75 murders with guns between 1998 and 2004. Proceedings were initiated in just 26 cases, or 35% of these. Convictions were recorded in 12 cases, or 16%. That is the performance. The Taoiseach should not give figures for arrests over drug abuse or other crimes. The figures I have mentioned are prosecutions and convictions. Some 12 of 75 murders with weapons between 1998 and...

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Newspaper headlines from 2003 state that "McDowell will double prison term for killers". Another from 2003 states that "McDowell says gardaí have not enough powers," while others state "McDowell says victory despite gang murders" and "McDowell says last sting of the dying wasp". This is the record. What occurred in Coolock, where an innocent civilian lost her life, is the responsibility of...

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I cannot believe that within 24 hours the Taoiseach has denied the spin he put on events yesterday.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Let me quote from RTE today.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That was exactly the import of what he said.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: He said to Deputy Kenny that a life sentence should mean life. What is that supposed to mean? The Taoiseach is the one who decides.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is the Taoiseach who paroles criminals, not the Judiciary.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The headline from RTE today stated: "Judges are considering comments, made following the shooting, by the Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on the sentences imposed for serious criminal offences." That is what RTE stated.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: RTE stated it in response to the Taoiseach's and Deputy McDowell's comments.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The spin is that judges are somehow responsible for imposing inadequate sentences.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach deny saying——