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Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I join in the welcome to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The Taoiseach had a bad day yesterday but I did not think it was sufficiently bad to put the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in charge, with all that it might imply.

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is a bad omen that the Tánaiste is caught in traffic. I am reminded of the fact that she was helicoptered to a famous opening in north Leitrim not long ago and I am disappointed that the same mode of transport is not available this morning.

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not know why the Fianna Fáil benches are so happy behind the Minister, Deputy McDowell, when they are so glum behind the Taoiseach.

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Ipsis hibernicis hiberniores. When will the Abbotstown Bill be brought before the House and will it have the Minister's full support?

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That is a virtual Bill.

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he intends to take to reduce the high and rising incidence of workplace fatalities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31623/05]

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the proportion of the 230,000 strong construction industry workforce which is covered under the CIF pensions registered agreement; if he intends to take measures to ensure that employers fulfil their legal obligation to register and make pension contributions for all employees; and if he will make a statement on the...

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: To be fair, he delivered the e-voting machines to the Minister, Deputy Cullen.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I was about to say that Deputy Bruton had left me deprived of any questions to ask. However, on hearing the Taoiseach's answer, he clearly has not. Will the Dublin transport authority be on a statutory basis? If so, when will the proposals be introduced? What does the Taoiseach mean when he says it will be a national authority for Dublin? We had enough problems when it was confined to Dublin.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I thought the Minister made a definite commitment on this matter yesterday.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Not even the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, would be able to explain that on television.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is the only new bus.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I have two questions for the Taoiseach. Does he recall the speech made by the Minister for Finance on 20 October? This was a 12 point plan the Minister for Finance announced to counteract the litany of waste, misspending and maladministration that had given rise to the controversies in the public domain before that. He announced a major initiative, a 12 point plan, point three of which was...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: They were sanctioned last year; they were ordered last year; they are ready; they are 20 buses to replace 20 buses that are being retired by Dublin Bus.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: What credibility can the House give to a plan that on something as particular and specific as this, the Minister could have lied barefacedly through his teeth——

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: How does one describe what I have just described?

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I will say instead they are blatant untruths. How can the Taoiseach justify what the Minister said? How can he justify the fact that——

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I withdraw the word "lie". The Taoiseach said they have provided so many buses for Iarnród Éireann. That must be where they are running — on the railway tracks — because they are not running in Dublin.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Three new QBCs are ready to be rolled out by Dublin Bus, one in the Tallaght orbital route, one in south Clondalkin and one on the Rock Road. Dublin Bus is looking for buses for those three QBCs which cannot be rolled out because it does not have them and meanwhile the Taoiseach's Minister has the cheek to say that because 20 buses are being retired and 20 were ordered last year, he will...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: This was a media event and a stunt and the Taoiseach is making a very bad job of defending it.