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Active Citizenship. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach learned his civics at an early age by going up poles and putting stuff in doors.

Active Citizenship. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach was an exception.

Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on drugs and social inclusion last met; and when the next meeting is due to be held. [4187/06]

Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What can the Taoiseach do? He would answer the questions if he could.

Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has answered so comprehensively that I cannot think of another question.

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There are many questions that are not answered by the Taoiseach but obviously the single biggest question is, how this could have gone on for 24 years. While we certainly owe a great debt to the author of this report for the manner in which complex material is handled and the substantial and insightful recommendations that are made, the fact remains that were it not for the bravery and...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not at all clear on what the Taoiseach has stated. Take, for example, the Whistleblowers Protection Bill 1999 that his Government supported when I introduced it in the House in June 1999. If employees in those circumstances had statutory protection, surely this would have come to light earlier. It is almost beyond belief, leaving out the professional affinity between professional...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not think the Taoiseach has read the report and I ask him, when he gets an opportunity away from his other pressures, that he might do so because that was a muddled reply, which was all over the place. Even when the former Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Cowen, was written to, it took a year to get an acknowledgement. When a woman wrote about a second consultant in the same...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is missing the point.

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: They examined many cases directed by him.

Written Answers — Tax Incentive Schemes: Tax Incentive Schemes (28 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recently published internal review of certain tax schemes; the action he intends to take as a result of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7854/06]

Written Answers — Public Service Contracts: Public Service Contracts (28 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he intends to take to ensure that public service contracts are awarded only to those companies that meet minimum standards in terms of pay, working conditions and pension entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7860/06]

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (28 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 145: To ask the Taoiseach the matters discussed at the recent meeting between officials of his Department and a person (details supplied) from Northern Ireland whose son was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries, and who has alleged collusion between those involved in the murder and members of the security forces in Northern Ireland; the action that will be taken arising from the...

Public Order Offences: Statements. (28 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: For those of us who served on that side of the House, memories are long enough to recall the mischief that would be made by Fianna Fáil if the office of Minister for Justice was held by a Fine Gael or Labour Party Deputy. The Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue, has also absented himself. He made a career from indicting the Minister for Justice of the day if a letter went missing. Now, we have had...

Order of Business. (28 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It would be appropriate if the opportunity were given to all sides of the House to show we are agreed in terms of our opposition to the scandalous scenes that occurred on Saturday. A simple motion would give all parties and individual members an opportunity to subscribe to the terms of that motion and send out a unified message from this House on behalf of the people.

Order of Business. (28 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What preparations does the Taoiseach intend to make to facilitate the House in debating the Lourdes Hospital inquiry published this afternoon and will adequate time be provided to discuss the analysis and findings that have appalled most ordinary citizens? Does the Taoiseach agree that the time has come for the House to enact legislation along the lines of the Whistleblowers Protection Bill...

Order of Business. (28 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not debating it. I am asking if there was ever a case that so starkly reminds the average citizen of the necessity for whistle-blowers' protection in this society as what is encompassed in the Lourdes Hospital inquiry report? Will the Taoiseach seriously consider reintroducing the Whistleblowers Protection Bill, which his Government opportunistically voted for when it was introduced in...

Public Order Offences: Statements. (28 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Rioting, destruction, personal injury and public disorder on the scale experienced on Dublin streets on Saturday made this emergency debate inevitable and the principle of Dáil accountability requires the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform should be here to answer questions on the information available to him about the disgraceful events on Saturday. It is with some disbelief that...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: We will have an opportunity to return to this debate in a few minutes following the Order of Business. I refer to a different matter that relates to weekend comments about the Omagh bombing, the single worst atrocity in the Northern Ireland Troubles, which cost the lives of 29 men, women and children. The Taoiseach will recall that in the aftermath, his Government appointed an ad hoc...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Both Deputy Kenny and I have expressed our surprise that the Nally committee was unable to reach its findings without interviewing the Garda informant at the heart of the affair. Last week the PSNI made clear again that it still wished to interview this man, a Mr. Dixon, a car thief who stole cars on order for the Real IRA and its bombing campaign. According to The Sunday Times, the PSNI also...