Results 2,241-2,260 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister for Finance had a great deal of money to give away yesterday and he did that. He scattered it around every segment of the electorate from whom the harvest of votes might be improved. There is no innovation, no new ideas and no joined-up thinking. The budget is cautious, predictable and safe. It is not intended to address structural inequality, rather it is designed for one...
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Then Saint Augustine would have no place in this Cabinet.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: The basic social welfare increases are welcome and will help people in a high price economy to keep body and soul together. However, as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul pointed out, the social welfare package will do no more than that. There is no structural assault on poverty. The meanest cut of all is that there is no reinstatement of the RAPID programme. I really regret that our friends...
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Burton made the point yesterday that the people in the new poverty trap are those who are forced into private rented accommodation. Our social housing problem is now forced into private rented accommodation, which is accommodation driven by tax reliefs and tax incentives. Those people are on housing rental supplement but if they try to go back into the workforce, either they lose that...
- Written Answers — Alternative Farm Enterprises: Alternative Farm Enterprises (8 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the action she has taken to assist in meeting the 2% quota for production of biofuel by the end of 2005, required under the Kyoto Agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38374/05]
- Government-Church Dialogue. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the dialogue between the Government, churches and faith communities to which he referred in his reply to Questions Nos. 1 to 4 of 14 December 2004; the structure the dialogue is taking; the number of meetings that have been held; the person who has represented the Government side; if he expects the dialogue to come to conclusions; and if...
- Government-Church Dialogue. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: More than a year has elapsed since the Minister for Foreign Affairs made this announcement. Will the Taoiseach explain the delay in getting it underway? Will he say something further about the structure? Did he say it would be led by one Minister or that Ministers will take it in turn and what type of format will it follow? Does the Taoiseach agree with his backbench colleague, Deputy...
- Government-Church Dialogue. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: I want to put a specific point to the Taoiseach, as to whether, for example, he intends to discuss the Ferns Report with the Catholic Church. In that context and in the light of Deputy O'Donnell's explicit criticisms of the indemnity deal, will he take her advice on board and review that deal and its terms, which exposes the taxpayer to what the Comptroller and Auditor General has estimated...
- Government-Church Dialogue. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: The potholes are merelyââ
- Government-Church Dialogue. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach was abstemious during November anyway.
- Government-Church Dialogue. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: I am trying to understand the distinction between the kind of business the Taoiseach would normally raise with the churches and what will be encompassed by this dialogue. Many of the churches would give a high primacy to issues of war and peace, for example. Are these the kind of issues the Taoiseach would envisage discussing with the churches? Many of the churches have voiced serious...
- Government-Church Dialogue. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has stated he does not see the Ferns Report as the kind of issue he would raise in the contemplated dialogue here. Has he discussed the Ferns Report with the Catholic Church in particular?
- Diplomatic Representations. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his most recent contacts with the political parties in Northern Ireland. [37652/05]
- Diplomatic Representations. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the nature of the discussions he has had with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair, or other representatives of the British Government regarding British legislation to deal with the position of persons still wanted for serious terrorist offences; if his attention has been drawn to the terms of the British legislation prior to its publication; and if he...
- Diplomatic Representations. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received representations from the SDLP regarding British legislation to deal with the position of persons still wanted for serious terrorist offences; the response he has made to these representations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37654/05]
- Diplomatic Representations. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Why are Questions Nos. 6 to 14 being taken together?
- Diplomatic Representations. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Who is it a matter for? What has Question No. 6 to do with Northern Ireland?
- Diplomatic Representations. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: I heard the Ceann Comhairle say that he has no role in the ordering of parliamentary questions. I submit, in any event, that questions on Northern Ireland are one of the few substantive areas where Opposition Members may question the Taoiseach. Otherwise, we are back to e-Cabinet projects, the communications unit and housekeeping matters that could be dealt with by Deputy Callely or someone....
- Diplomatic Representations. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Thank you very much, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions. (13 Dec 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: The substantive question put to the Taoiseach was what was the threat to our democracy. Will the Taoiseach answer that question? I remind him it was protection of our democracy and the institutions of the State that justified a previous Minister for Justice tapping telephones. Will the Taoiseach spell out what was the threat? Like Deputy Kenny, I think Frank Connolly's answers to legitimate...