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Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 18: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his recent visit to the United States. [25003/05]

Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 19: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the meetings he held on the margins of the recent meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25004/05]

Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Notwithstanding that, is it the case that we casually disowned the pledge the Taoiseach made at the United Nations? Many people are asking questions on the validity of the latest pledge to 2012. What is the Taoiseach's attitude to the Labour Party's Bill that sought to ringfence our contribution to ODA so that in good times or bad we would adhere to this moral contribution to the world's...

Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Pope coming?

Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach detail his Government's plans to deal with the displacement of 543 workers by Irish Ferries Limited? He should have a note of it because he will remember this was a significant company which served the strategic interests of this country well before it was sold off to friends of Fianna Fáil by the then Minister for Transport, Deputy Brennan. Having gotten away with it in...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: As the acting head of Government, I ask the Minister, Deputy Cowen, to give a more positive indication than that on the matter raised by Deputy Kenny. It appears the proposal he has put is reasonable. Anybody who looks closely at the deal Shell Oil got in Mayo would reach the conclusion that the least it can do having got one hell of a deal from the Irish taxpayer is to make itself amenable...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The question put to the Ceann Comhairle was how does he recommend, as the chairman of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, that Members give four days' notice of amendments when they receive a Bill on the day before it is taken. That is the question. I do not propose to have a discussion with him.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: How does he propose to have a four-day rule when Members only get one day's notice of a Bill?

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Members receive one day's notice of a Bill, which was the point originally put to the Chair.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I second the amendment that the Dáil should resume on 13 September. It is very difficult to justify anything else to the public. It is impossible to justify three months' absence from plenary session of the Dáil. Outside it is not understood that it is the Government and not the Dáil or the Oireachtas that makes the decision to put the House into recess for three months. It is impossible...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Even by the standards of this Government, the recess is coming at least a week earlier than in recent years. There is no justification for the House not to sit next week. I am happy to second Deputy Kenny's proposal that the House return on 13 September.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, has said that Deputy Sargent is technologically inadequate.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (30 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will expand on his recent statement that older persons should be able to remortgage their property to the State in return for an annual income to supplement their pension; if he plans to table formal proposals on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23028/05]

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am waiting for the Minister to brief the Tánaiste. I know he does not read complex advice but all he has to do is transfer it to me. He does not have to read it. All he has to read is notes that say he should not forget his photo shoot at 12 noon. Reading complex briefs are not expected in that Department. The Tánaiste is aware that there has been much goodwill towards her in her...

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: What is the position of Government on the Hanly report?

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: For the past three years, different Ministers and the Taoiseach have answered questions on the whistleblowers Bill on the basis that the law officer had advised that it was better to import it sectorally into various legislation. The Tánaiste undertook to furnish me with that advice. She now tells me there was never any such advice and that officials had advised her. This confirms my view of...

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Ceann Comhairle has a very cavalier approach to the second most senior member of Government coming into the House and saying that advices that have been given——

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not talking about the Tánaiste in particular. Advices we have been given over three years on major legislation that has entered the public domain recently in terms of nursing homes, the Garda Síochána and other areas of Irish life were entirely contrary to the truth, yet the Ceann Comhairle grimaces at me and states he wants to move on.

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Standing Orders.

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is important that we know the difference between "indoor" and "open air".