Results 3,061-3,080 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: It is nothing of the kind.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister invited Deputies Howlin and Jim O'Keeffe to discussions and arranged to meet them again. He went into the Seanad in the interim to tell that House that a broad agreement had been reached. He changed his mind three or four times yesterday. He criticised the House for not noting the two omissions that occurred to him last night, even though we did not see the Bill until today.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: You are the man who comes into this Houseââ
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: ââwith the lawyers' tactic of building up a straw man and then proceeding to knock it down.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Who made the suggestionââ
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Who made the suggestion to the Minister, which he claims to have so firmly resisted, that he should release the seven prisoners who are properly in jail? Nobody in this House suggested it to him. His tactic is to build up a case before proceeding to knock down a case that never existed.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: This has been a shameful performance by the Government.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister for Finance even resorted to condemning the Supreme Court.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach came inââ
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: ââthis morning like a casual bystander and came within an ace of making the same point.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I have very limited time before I hand over to my colleague, Deputy Howlin.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I wish we had longer.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: What happened gender neutrality?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: That is correct.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: He said 14 years.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: A sunset clause should be agreed to or it will be a lawyer's paradise. There are several anomalies in the legislation, which the Minister himself knows. It was foisted on the Government and it would be wise to put in a sunset clause and let us come back to the matter.
- Leaders' Questions. (7 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach accept that nobody on this side of the House is questioning the professionalism or competence of State counsel, who contested the case in the High Court and the Supreme Court? That is not the issue, the issue is the chaos that ensued from the lack of foreknowledge on the part of the Government, including the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, and the Attorney...
- Leaders' Questions. (7 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I point out to the Taoiseach it is not a question of me repeating the arguments about why the statute passed last Friday is of doubtful constitutional validity. We advanced the arguments at the time from these benches. My colleague, Deputy Howlin, set out a number of claims about the legislation that now seem to have been endorsed by various experts. It is not a question of repeating them;...
- Leaders' Questions. (7 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: It shook the Minister's party out of Government at the time.
- Leaders' Questions. (7 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I ask the Taoiseach how it is on constitutional cases-ââ