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Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 170: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the electronic voting is unlikely to be used for the next general election; when the system is likely to be used; the cost of the system when the estimated cost of testing and storing the electronic machines until such time as they are likely to be used is taken into account; and if he...

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 482: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the average number of community gardaí which have been deployed in Tallaght in each of the years 2003, 2004 and to date in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30258/05]

Lisbon National Reform Programme: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Deputy will need a break after all that, as it is a very heavy schedule.

Lisbon National Reform Programme: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That is a very heavy schedule.

Strategic Management Initiative. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Did the Taoiseach have incremental reform such as this in mind when he headlined his intention to reform the public service at his party's Ard-Fheis in Killarney? When I asked him last week if he agreed with the views of his Secretary General he said he did not think they were feasible. He then listed the practical obstacles to the kind of reform proposals the Secretary General advocated in...

Strategic Management Initiative. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I did not hear any tangible proposal in that response. Is it the Taoiseach's intention that another round of benchmarking goes ahead irrespective of whether there is a new social contract?

Strategic Management Initiative. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach agree he has not addressed the main issue at the heart of the possibly temporary collapse——

Strategic Management Initiative. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Everybody finds this matter very interesting. If we carry on talking about the strategic management issue and so on, all our guests will leave. This is a fascinating topic.

Strategic Management Initiative. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I accept that. I wanted to ascertain if the Taoiseach accepts that displacement is the real issue which has created the problem regarding the social partnership talks getting under way again.

Strategic Management Initiative. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I accept the Ceann Comhairle's ruling, as I always do.

Appointments to State Boards. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the appointments made by him since 2002 to boards or agencies operating under the auspices of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26559/05]

Appointments to State Boards. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We will never get them to agree to that.

Appointments to State Boards. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The polls were good then. It is different now.

Appointments to State Boards. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach agree that it would be a useful innovation to respond on the hoof to Deputy Kenny's suggestion that there would not be any appointments made in the interregnum in future?

Appointments to State Boards. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Yes, forever more.

Appointments to State Boards. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It will not be long now.

Appointments to State Boards. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: If an honourable agreement was entered into, the Taoiseach could rely on us that it would be adhered to. Is the Taoiseach saying he cannot control, for example, what the Minister, Deputy Roche — to whom I refer simply because he is sitting beside the Taoiseach — might do, in that, if the Minister wants to rush off and make a number of appointments, the Taoiseach can only caution or advise...

Appointments to State Boards. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is difficult to get a commitment from the Taoiseach on this. He has told us he generally agrees this is not good for politics and public life.

Appointments to State Boards. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach may have. I am not making any insinuations about his record.

Appointments to State Boards. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am merely trying to clarify that there would be that type of bipartisan approach that appointments made in this fashion during the interregnum diminish politics and that there ought to be an agreement and understanding that it would not be done. I ask the Taoiseach, as the man in charge at the moment, whether he agrees.