Results 181-200 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: If his concern is the integrity of citizenship and if he has been working on this legislation for 18 months, why has he been unable to produce even a line of legislation to end forever the practice of selling passports?

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: In his announcement of the referendum, the Minister said the legislation would end this practice. However, the best he can do is a further promise to amend the legislation which will be brought into the House if the referendum is carried to outlaw passports for sale. There has already been Private Members' legislation on this issue in the name of Senator Quinn. There is no complex...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Many people feel abused because they cannot get various rights, such as housing and medical services, as a result of Government policy. They are right to feel abused, aggrieved and angry about the situation in which they find themselves and about the run-down streets and estates, the poor or absent medical services, the missing policing, the petty crime, the heroin and anti-social behaviour....

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: How long did the Taoiseach delay on the issue of building land?

Commissions of Inquiry. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach when he expects to receive the report of Mr. Justice Barron dealing with the Dundalk and Belturbet bombings and the murder of a person (details supplied); the procedure that will be used to deal with the report which is submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5710/04]

Commissions of Inquiry. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the Government's views on the recommendations of the sub-committee of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Women's Rights on the Barron report; the action the Government intends to take to ensure that the recommendations are implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10774/04]

Commissions of Inquiry. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: In an earlier reply the Taoiseach indicated the second Barron report would be available early in 2004. As I am competing with some noise here, I did not quite hear if the Taoiseach gave a date for this. How does the Taoiseach propose handling the second Barron report? Does he intend it to be addressed in the same fashion as the report on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings?

Commissions of Inquiry. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: What is the Taoiseach's response to the recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights on the first Barron report? I ask in particular about the recommendation that a figure like Judge Cory would carry out an initial inquiry. Has the Taoiseach raised this matter with the British authorities? Did he raise it with the Prime Minister, Mr....

Commissions of Inquiry. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach comment specifically on the recommendation in respect of the possible reference of a case to the European Court of Human Rights? Has the Government given separate consideration to the initiation of such a case? How does he propose to proceed in the House in respect of the sub-committee's report? Does he intend to proceed by way of resolution from Government to set out the...

Freedom of Information. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the Government made any assessment of the impact of the legislative amendments made to the original Act? What is the Taoiseach's impression of commercial enterprises or professionals who were said to be using the Act to assimilate and accumulate information which was commercially advantageous to them in the cheapest possible way? Is that practice continuing or has it fallen off?

Constitutional Amendments. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the referenda the Government is planning to hold or is considering holding before the end of 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10704/04]

Constitutional Amendments. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a copy of the report of the All-Party Committee on the Constitution dealing with property rights; the action he intends to take as a result of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11742/04]

Constitutional Amendments. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach saying to the House that no heed should be paid to any answer he gives on this kind of generic question in the future because the Cabinet has not formally endorsed a referendum? Why did he tell the House on 17 February that there would not be a referendum when manifestly it was decided between himself and his Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform that there would be?...

Constitutional Amendments. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I believe it does, Sir. Like Deputy Kenny I believe we will be forced down the road of a constitutional amendment. The question was put down not just to highlight the fact that the Taoiseach told the House one thing on 17 February and a different thing today. The question was tabled because we want to know whether the Government is contemplating——

Constitutional Amendments. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I agree it does not. I am positing a specific one. For as long as I have been a Member of this House, it has been possible to put in such a generic question and to tease it out by way of reference to a particular case. I ask the Taoiseach if his Government is as resolved this week as it was last week——

Constitutional Amendments. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: ——to impeach Judge Curtin and whether he thinks it will be necessary for us to have a constitutional amendment to do precisely that.

Constitutional Amendments. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: How much extra time has Judge Curtin been allowed?

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Taxpayers, €52 million of whose euro has gone down the drain, would be amazed if they could see the flippant manner in which the Taoiseach's motley doughnut regards this issue.

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach sometimes convinces me that if he had been around at the time of the Wall Street crash, he would have come into the House to say it was good for the economy. We know what is in the commission's report. Not alone is this ill-fated, arrogant and incompetent experiment buried for 11 June, but these machines are buried forever. The Taoiseach is wrong when he says there is a flaw in...

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The machine was constructed according to an incorrect specification and it cannot be re-engineered.