Results 2,361-2,380 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Leaders' Questions. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is from the Minister and his briefers.

Leaders' Questions. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: If the Minister, Deputy Cullen, seeks to proceed with this, the motorists on the M50 will string him up from the nearest gantry and they would be right to do so.

Leaders' Questions. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister should stay quiet; I have only two minutes. He had his opportunity at the weekend. A sum of €500 million to National Toll Roads and a loss of revenue to the State estimated by DKM Consultants to be €900 million between now and 2020 totals €1.4 billion, which is the amount of money the Minister claims he will raise on the new tolls. The M50 is now a distributor road for...

Leaders' Questions. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Why, for example, did the Minister not opt for an arrangement whereby one moves the toll plaza to a more appropriate site, introduces electronic, barrier-free tolling, for which there is no technological impediment, throws open the bridge in the six or nine months this would take to do and pays the rent to National Toll Roads? I accept the Minister is constrained by the nature of the contract...

Leaders' Questions. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I accept the Minister is constrained but even within those constraints he could have devised a deal that was in the better interests of the Irish taxpayers and motorists, on whom he now proposes to impose four new tolls for a distributor road. It is outrageous.

Leaders' Questions. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not know whether that leaves the Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, hanging on one of his virtual gantries and the Taoiseach is backing off or whether the Taoiseach is, as usual, playing with language. What he actually said was that no decision has been taken about the location of new tolls. I have been raising this question, as have other colleagues in this House, for more than five...

Leaders' Questions. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There is a solution.

Leaders' Questions. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There is a solution. There is nothing new about barrier-free tolling. There is nothing impossible about electronic tolling——

Leaders' Questions. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Government could construct a proper plaza at a more appropriate point, maintain the income stream to the State and avoid imposing new tolls on motorists. This puts electronic voting, PPARS and all the rest in the shade.

Leaders' Questions. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I hope the Taoiseach will deny — and I give him the opportunity to do so again — that he approves this hare-brained, daft, unworkable and punitive arrangement devised by the Minister, Deputy Cullen.

Leaders' Questions. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Why did the Taoiseach brief the newspapers on it?

Leaders' Questions. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That is the opposite of what the Minister told us. The Taoiseach should send him off with Ivor Callely.

Order of Business. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The mention of the Ollscoil na Gaillimhe Bill reminds me that, according to the newspapers, more punches were thrown at the Fianna Fáil selection convention there than at that fixed fight in the stadium.

Order of Business. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Government bring forward an electoral register Bill in this term?

Order of Business. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: No, the electoral register Bill — the prisoners do not worry me.

Order of Business. (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Government promising legislation to correct what has been written about and what is believed in this House to be a grossly inadequate maintenance of the electoral register?

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to any response from the bishops following a letter from Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, sent in October 2005 inquiring into whether the recommendations from the Ferns Report were being implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3045/06]

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (31 Jan 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the outcome of her meeting with representatives of the One in Four Group on 17 November 2005. [36141/05]

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to return to the issue of the M50. Yesterday the Taoiseach seemed to want to distance himself and the Government from the announcement made on television on Friday night by Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, and subsequent stories by him and inspired by him, to the effect the Government plans to lift the barrier on the West Link bridge and install four new tolls along the M50. The...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The new system, according to The Irish Times——