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Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister should not try his pugnacious nonsense on me.

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister will understand why the subject of cancer care services is topical. He will know that there was a protest outside the Dáil last week, organised by various community organisations and cancer sufferers from the south east. Why is there interminable drift of the cancer care strategy? Why did the previous Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, promise the extension...

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The stock and trade response to such questions by the Minister for Finance and the Taoiseach is to reel off a number of statistics and refer to when the Opposition was last in office. Patients in pain and in need of morphine and, in some cases, travelling to Dublin from parts of Donegal or Waterford are not interested in the Government playing games with regard to what was in place when I was...

Order of Business. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Government intend to amend or alter the terms of the Moriarty tribunal? Has the Minister for Finance managed to find time to be briefed on the Government's position on the Whistleblowers Protection Bill? It was introduced in the name of the Labour Party and approved by the Government on Second Stage.

Central Statistics Office Report. (17 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the recent Central Statistics Office report, Measuring Ireland's Progress 2004. [10592/05]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the progress to date on the reintroduction of height limits for heavy goods vehicles as promised three years ago. [15668/05]

Written Answers — National Car Test: National Car Test (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of public meetings held to date under the consultation process on the performance of the national car test; the average numbers attending at each such meeting; the expected total cost of this process; when it is likely to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15563/05]

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: When will the Tánaiste sign the regulations in respect of the nursing home charges issue?

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Can the Tánaiste give the House an approximate figure for the anticipated payout under the redress scheme for long-stay charges? Approximately how much will be paid out this year? What investigation is going on inside the Department of Health and Children following the discovery that the critical file from the Attorney General was being squatted on by the previous Minister?

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The entire controversy pivots around the missing file from the Attorney General.

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We now find that the previous Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mícheal Martin, squatted on this file. I am seeking to ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children——

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Since 1919, it has been possible to ask a question as the leader of a party on the Order of Business.

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: A senior civil servant at assistant principal level——

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is impossible to carry out our business in this House.

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Is there any investigation going on?

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the health service plan recently published by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15335/05]

Safe Sex Promotion. (11 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to concerns expressed regarding the reduction in funding for the promotion of contraception and safe sex among young people, especially in view of a recent increase in the number of teenage pregnancies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15336/05]

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: This matter goes to the heart of the way this House conducts its business.

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: There are long-standing provisions for the making of a regulation and the facility available to this House, if it has the votes, to annul those regulations within 21 days. Deputy Gilmore asked whether 14 of those 21 days have elapsed.

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Have 14 days elapsed? Why can we not get an answer? What is the answer?