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Departmental Bodies. (2 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions during 2004 on which the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnership met; when the committee will next meet; if he will report on the work of the team to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3501/05]

Departmental Bodies. (2 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I agree with the Taoiseach's comments but I am not sure it is happening in practice. While we are swapping anecdotes, one community in Meath told me that the site for the school is designated and, after it is rezoned, the Department must buy it back at the rezoned value. If that type of thing happens, it is extraordinary. I agree with the Taoiseach's comments about the experience of the...

Order of Business. (2 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister of State, Deputy Callely, will deal with it.

Order of Business. (2 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Are we to understand that the Minister of State, Deputy Callely, is dealing with the threat of avian flu? Will the Taoiseach say if this morning's reports about the Travers report being taken by the Minister on Friday and being taken to the Cabinet next Tuesday are correct? Will it be published after the Cabinet meeting?

Order of Business. (2 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will it be published after the Cabinet meeting?

Order of Business. (2 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach saying that whether it will be published depends on what is in it?

Leaders' Questions. (2 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It appears that dozens of child care centres nationally are at risk as a result of the communication on behalf of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform under the equal opportunities child care programme. Staffing grants for child care facilities are to be reviewed after 31 August. I draw the Taoiseach's attention especially to the statement in the communication that the Department...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has no familiarity with the issue. The Government is not aiding child care through what the Taoiseach called "equal opportunities child care programmes" as there is only one programme, the staffing grants of which he proposes to cut. By falling back on an argument about child benefit, the Taoiseach showed he has no knowledge of the cost of child care. Does the Taoiseach know the...

Regional Development. (2 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his recent meeting with the Border, Midlands and Western Regional Assembly. [3500/05]

Written Answers — Hearing Impairment Claims: Hearing Impairment Claims (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Army deafness claims that remain outstanding; when he expects these to be dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6705/05]

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 264: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will take steps to ensure that all dormant accounts applicants will have equal access to a consistent, fair and equitable appeals process and that, in line with natural justice, the Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursements Board will not adjudicate on appeals of their own decisions; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Third Level Grants: Third Level Grants (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 357: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will consider the establishment of a centralised streamlined system of administration in respect of third level grants in view of the hardship that many students have to endure as a result of the delays in securing grants to which they are entitled, delays which are caused in the main by poor administration at local level; and...

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to share time with Deputy Crawford.

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The provisional republican movement has finally been confronted with reality of its present position: promises hedged, delayed and broken; a ten year history of claiming ownership of the peace process while never coming to terms with the demands imposed by peace; a history of valuing the process more than the peace; and a still unfolding history of denial, prevarication and deceit. When the...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: They will probably be mini-buses.

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I want to raise another and separate dereliction of duty by another Minister. I refer to the subject matter of the Travers report. Will the Taoiseach indicate if the Travers report will be put into the public domain on receipt or kept under cover until after the by-elections? Will he answer clearly whether he still has confidence in the Minister, Deputy Martin, in particular? This must be the...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: If he did not know about it, he had to know about it in 2003. When one health board got explicit legal advice to the effect that the charges were illegal and passed them on to the Department and the other health boards, for some reason it took ten months to get a meeting in the Department of the top chief executives, the top management and the three managers on 16 December 2003. At that...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: If a Minister for older people did not know about this, what did the Minister for older people know? Does the Taoiseach still have confidence in these three Ministers?

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has evaded the question and described the problem. We know what is the problem. I do not know whether it should have been known about in 1976. From its judgment, it is apparent the Supreme Court does not know either. However, it knows that the position was clear from 2001. The documents the Tánaiste has placed in the public domain indicate that, at the MAC meeting on 16...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has not yet seen the Travers report. How could he have confidence in the Minister?