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Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It may be but, as the Ceann Comhairle knows, the line Minister does not answer in a language any of us understands. Question No. 1 is pretty clear in terms of community and voluntary sector representation. Why should an organisation, albeit occasionally critical of the Government, which has being doing such productive work in the anti-poverty area be cut off from funding for the first time...

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: This involves representation in the most practical and pragmatic sense. The Ceann Comhairle and I have had this discussion before. If he had his way he would not let us ask anything and would only let us read out the question.

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I take it back then — it is not correct.

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: You do Sir, and I know how repressive that can be. Will funding be reinstated to the CWC?

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Community Workers Co-operative.

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Perhaps the Taoiseach would be good enough to try to establish the answer. I do not say this lightly but it seems to have been a vindictive decision by the line Minister. On the future of social partnership, is the Taoiseach concerned about the manner of decision making in some employments recently but, most disturbingly in the former State company, Irish Sugar, now Greencore? The Carlow...

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It goes to the heart of social partnership.

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: No. The Taoiseach leads the talks on social partnership and these nine parliamentary questions relate to that in one fashion or another. Does the Taoiseach deplore the fact there was no consultation with the trade unions? He is as familiar with EU directives on communication, consultation and so on as I am.

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach agree this is a reasonable proposition? Will he ask the Minister to intervene on the basis that the IFA has requested that the plant be kept open for a year while we have time to discuss the issue of quotas and so on?

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It would be helpful——

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——if the Taoiseach would indicate that this might be a reasonable route.

Leaders' Questions. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is on public record as is the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in deploring the lack of co-operation by the British authorities in the matter of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. We share that regret on this side of the House but it should be noted in passing that, for example, some of the documents being sought are of the highest sensitivity in terms of intelligence...

Leaders' Questions. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: They are looking for co-operation. The transcripts to which I have referred can be transferred to the National Archives in the normal way after 30 years but, under section 8 of the relevant legislation, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, may transfer them earlier than that to the National Archives which is directly within the responsibility of the Taoiseach. We are talking...

Leaders' Questions. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not want to press the Taoiseach further on this issue. It is a critically important matter for the Omagh families concerned who have not merely endured such an atrocity but other setbacks. The decision appears to be a procedural one of the Special Criminal Court that it feels unable to release these documents although, I repeat, they are no more than a verbatim account of what transpired...

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach when the next quarterly meeting of the social partners under the Sustaining Progress agreement will be held; the details of the likely agenda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34260/04]

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach his views on whether there should be another national agreement when the terms of Sustaining Progress expire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34261/04]

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion. (8 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I welcome the Fine Gael motion. The Labour Party will support it. I welcome the fact that the Government was able to come around to supporting it. I pay tribute to the Taoiseach, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, and former Minster of State, Deputy O'Donnell, for their unstinting work on this very important issue. It is...

Written Answers — Mobile Telephony: Mobile Telephony (8 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the consequences of the European Commission's decision to uphold the recent ruling by the Commission for Communications Regulation that more competition is needed in the mobile phone market here; his views on whether the two main mobile phone companies have operated an effective duopoly here; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Mobile Telephony: Mobile Telephony (8 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 163: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on the recent joint ofcom and ComReg report into cross-Border telecoms issues; if initiatives are planned to reduce the cost of cross-Border calls; if the report addresses the issue of mobile phone users here straying onto British networks in Border areas; the recommendations made in this regard; and...

Written Answers — Companies Investigations: Companies Investigations (8 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 334: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 23 and 28 of 16 December 2004, the reasons for the Tánaiste giving her authorised officer a direction to cease investigative work under section 19 in regard to three companies and to commence writing up his reports; if she and her officer were in agreement that the officer's work...