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Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: We can stay at home and the Taoiseach can rubber-stamp it.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: There is certainly no challenging that.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: On that basis we do not need to attend, and it is not just the commission report——

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: How we have changed.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Whips' meeting is the place to organise business. The Taoiseach is now offering to extend the time spent debating the report of the Laffoy Commission to about an hour and three quarters, at best, by the time the Order of Business has concluded. This is not adequate to discuss a report of this significance. The Minister for Education and Science can smile all he likes, but he is the one...

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister forced the collapse of the commission.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister should read the comments Ms Justice Laffoy made about the Minister and his predecessor. The Taoiseach came to the House and shed crocodile tears about the unfortunate people who were abused and the Minister responsible thinks it is a laughing matter. The Taoiseach has accused me of jumping off the religious. I am not sure what it means but it sounds naughty.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Whatever it means, it is not true.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: It is a cheap shot. The Taoiseach went and fixed the deal with Deputy Woods. He was up a pole erecting posters. It is a disgrace for the taxpayer.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Those on the Government benches can laugh all they like. They have got smug and comfortable.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I wonder what kind of noise the Tánaiste, Deputy Harney, would have kicked up if she were sitting on the Opposition benches. She is now so soporific that she would agree to anything.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: What the Taoiseach is proposing is not acceptable.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Private Members' Business will interrupt it.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Did the Ceann Comhairle not hear the word "lie"?

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach giving additional time after Private Members' Business to discuss the report of the Laffoy commission?

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: In effect, we are getting no extra time to discuss the report of the Laffoy commission.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: We cannot dispose of it in one 20-minute and four 15-minute speeches. This is an outrageous proposition and the Government knows it.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: In recent times the House has attracted increasingly denigratory coverage. One of the main reasons for this is, undoubtedly, the manner in which we organise our affairs, which is dictated by the Government. Most of the parties in Opposition have prepared extensive proposals for Dáil reform. My party submitted an 80-page document on Dáil reform to the Government Chief Whip. Notwithstanding...

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister sought too late to change it. It was his problem, on his side of the House, that he could not change it.

Order Of Business. (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: What the Minister did was delay the disastrous 2002 figures and issue them simultaneously with the 2003 figures which showed an improvement on a disastrous picture. That is what he did.