Results 2,861-2,880 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Government thinks it can extend it to the 40,000 pensioners in question.

Northern Ireland Issues. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the action he intends to take arising from the report of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights into the death of Mr. Séamus Ludlow; if it is intended to act on the committee's recommendation that a commission of inquiry be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14449/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach when it is intended to publish the outstanding report received from Mr. Justice Barron into certain incidents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14450/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: With all due respect to the Ceann Comhairle, I know he is trying to accommodate me but I would prefer if answers to individual questions were given to the Deputy at the time they are asked. It is difficult enough to cope with the wiles and experience of the Taoiseach——

Northern Ireland Issues. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——without the Ceann Comhairle lumping everything in together.

Northern Ireland Issues. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I know the Ceann Comhairle's motivation is the best but if time permits I would prefer to be allowed ask the question myself.

Leaders' Questions. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The ugliest and most grotesque crime of all was committed in Ballymena over the weekend. I am sure all sides of the House agree with me in deploring the grotesque killing. On behalf of the Labour Party I extend our condolence to the family of Michael McIlveen. Does this killing not highlight the urgency of all sides of the community proposing their confidence in and expressing their support...

Leaders' Questions. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I never cease to be amazed at the interviews the Taoiseach reads and the ones he never notices. What he has just said cannot be reconciled with what the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dermot Ahern, said. Presumably the Taoiseach is not saying that powers for policing and justice can be transferred to Northern Ireland before the executive is reinstated. The Taoiseach said clearly after...

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism received the Dalton report four weeks ago but did not bring it to the Cabinet until this morning. I am completely bemused about the delay. What is in the report? When will the Taoiseach give it to the rest of us?

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: This morning's broadcast made a change from "The Michael McDowell Hour" anyway. It was a pleasure to listen to the Minister for Social and Family Affairs for a change.

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: He can do the Pat Kenny show at the same time.

Written Answers — Air Corps Personnel: Air Corps Personnel (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 465: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on acknowledging the courage and sacrifice of the Air Corps personnel who died in the Tramore helicopter crash of July 1999 through the reward of appropriate posthumous medals to the crew members who died; if he will confirm that a recommendation for an award of posthumous distinguished service medal was made after the tragedy; and if he...

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: As far as I am aware, all parties in the House are in favour of a rational planned programme of decentralisation. Deputies on all sides of the House privately concede that the plan announced in 2003 by the then Minister, Mr. McCreevy, is a shambles, is unworkable, is doing permanent damage to the cohesion of governance and is causing serious unjustifiable disruption to families who have long...

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——is that civil and public servants in this city who had married and are rearing families, who have families in education, are forcibly being relocated. That is the issue. It is made plain that if they want promotion, they must be agreeable to transfer. Has the time not come for us to agree an all-party review that would seek to underpin the national spatial strategy announced by the...

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: If we want to transfer people to Athy, Ballina, Clonmel or wherever, we can do it by agreement and by negotiation. That is not what is happening and it is a disgraceful slight on the service given to this State by so many worthy public servants.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I cannot understand how the Taoiseach can say this city cannot take the pressure and that we must alleviate it while the Government ignores its own national spatial strategy. The Taoiseach said the task is to take pressure off this city but when one checks the applicants applying for transfers to various Departments, a high percentage of them are civil and public servants living in parts of...

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——many of the towns to which he has promised to relocate agencies. In the case of Mitchelstown, 200 people from Bus Éireann were promised to be relocated there, but there has not been a single application to transfer there. Does that promise fool the people of Mitchelstown? Some Ministers talk about this process as if we were engaged in a programme of property development. This is not...

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The opportunity exists on an all-party basis for us to sit down together and negotiate a review of this programme, to have regard to the gateways established by the national spatial strategy and to implement a programme of genuine balanced regional development.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The position is that 99 civil servants want to stay and only one civil servant wants to move.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach might move to one of them.