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Leaders' Questions. (7 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What does that mean?

Leaders' Questions. (7 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not contesting that it is a detailed review and neither am I contesting that some of the schemes for some of the time made an important contribution that otherwise might not have happened. There is an impression being sold about the tax system under which we live, the sort of Vincent Browne-like, naive, 1960s analysis, that because we do not pay a 75% rate of personal tax, this is a very...

Freedom of Information. (7 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach's reply to Deputy Kenny about the Information Commissioner's remark that she had been taken by surprise by the exclusion of Health and Safety Authority investigations from the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, is unclear to me. Is the Taoiseach saying that is not the case? This is an important question and I am posing it in the context of, for example, the suggestion by...

Freedom of Information. (7 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There must be a note on the file. Otherwise, what was the Information Commissioner talking about when she made her remarks?

Disability Act 2005. (7 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made with regard to the implementation of the Disability Act 2005 within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40407/05]

Written Answers — Garda Stations: Garda Stations (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of the fact that the villages of Laytown, Bettystown and Mornington have a combined population of 8,000 people and growing, the local part-time Garda station will be upgraded to a full 24 hour permanent Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3492/06]

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am glad to see Deputy Johnny Brady supports Deputy Perry.

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Can I ask the Tánaiste——

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What progress is being made on the Bill to repay people wrongly charged in nursing homes? Has the critical file destined for the Attorney General, last seen in the office of the former Minister for Health and Children and which mysteriously went missing, ever been found?

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Did she look in Cork?

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I know the Tánaiste has her hands full trying to clean up the mess left by her predecessor, surely the most useless Minister for Health since 1922. However, has she found time or the opportunity to find out whether the Minister for Transport was on a frolic of his own last weekend or is there any basis in reality for the announcements he made? Given that she represents the area, has she had...

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the Tánaiste intervened in the extraordinary stories that are circulating regularly about what is going on in Bord na gCon? Every day there is a new piece of anonymous literature concerning matters that are allegedly taking place in that organisation. I have been in correspondence for more than a year with the Minister over his reappointment of a director who was disqualified from acting...

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister also appointed the chairman initially to inquire into why the chief executive was sacked by the chairman. There are reasons to be concerned——

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister must be joking.

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: He was yours.

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: On top of the Minister, the tailor's dummy from Cork was sponsored by Owen O'Callaghan.

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Tánaiste tell the House about the terms of reference of the appointment of Mr. Tim Dalton in respect of the inquiry that has been dragged out of the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy O'Donoghue? Will she say whether he is inquiring only into the circumstances of the dismissal of the chief executive or if his terms of reference involve an investigation into the various...

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am sure the NRA did not say a thing. It was the Minister who was on television at 9 o'clock. I saw him.

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It has not arrived yet according to my inquiries.

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That is pathetic.