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Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——and that is the judicial decree in the matter. The Minister, Deputy McDowell, has declared the Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue, to be blameless and innocent, and that this should be good enough for him and that he should skulk off to south Kerry and not appear on "Questions & Answers" or anywhere else to answer questions. The Minister has dropped him in it, and he knows that. The Taoiseach...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——to cover up and to collude in a cover up is reprehensible.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Compelling case.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It summarised the Carty report — I have seen it.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I have seen it and the Minister saw it and denied it.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: A 37-page summary.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It summarised the Carty report and it justified our request for an investigation.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I have seen the report.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I know the Minister did but he did not tell us about it.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Yes, he told the House he had it.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: They did not say anything of the kind.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not wish to record my point in this manner but there is no other parliamentary procedure for so doing. What happened last week was as big a shambles as I have ever seen in the House. Deputies were required to vote——

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: My point is directly connected. We had to come into the House to vote on something and we did not even know, with the number of items of different coloured paper that had been circulated by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform——

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: If the Ceann Comhairle wants me to explain the reason I am opposed to the proposal, I will do so.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: On Friday night, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, blamed the Ceann Comhairle and the staff of the House because the amendments were not disseminated. Anybody who knows anything about the Bills Office, knows that its staff are the most industrious in the House. I am sure I need not labour the point or say how distressed I was that the Minister should reflect...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I just wanted to place on record the disquiet caused to me over the weekend by the Minister's decision to reflect on the Ceann Comhairle's deficiency, which was unfair in the circumstances.

Cabinet Committees. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social inclusion and drugs last met; and when the next meeting is due to be held. [20741/05]

Cabinet Committees. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Questions like these about Cabinet sub-committee meetings have been the traditional method used to permit the head of Government to answer broad questions such as those posed by Deputy Ó Caoláin. The Ceann Comhairle has constantly, persistently and consistently narrowed the scope of questions that this House might legitimately put to the Taoiseach to such a point that it is not worth our...

Cabinet Committees. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: They are not statistical questions. That cliché has come into parliamentary exchanges because of questions habitually posed under the rubric of the Central Statistics Office and other statistical matters. A question about drug abuse and a Cabinet meeting is not statistical in nature.

Cabinet Committees. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That question is in line with parliamentary convention and aims to ascertain if, arising from the meeting, any decisions were reached or general policy announcements are to be made by the Taoiseach. He is the head of the Government.