Results 3,141-3,160 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Tourism Promotion. (14 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide details of the plan that was launched to promote tourism on the islands; his views on whether the amount pledged by his Department is sufficient for a sustained tourism drive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22747/06]

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (14 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has had discussions with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform in regard to the translation of court documents into the Irish language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22758/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: On the question of collusion between elements of the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries, does the Taoiseach know when the Nuala O'Loan report on the shooting of Raymond McCord and related matters is likely to be put in the public domain? Arising from the Taoiseach's reply about Weston Park, it was also agreed at that meeting that the Smithwick committee would begin hearings into...

Departmental Staff. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a communication from the Standards in Public Office Commission in regard to a complaint made against the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in regard to a request he made to a civil servant to address a meeting of a political party; the action he intends to take arising from the communication received from the SIPO; and if he will...

Departmental Staff. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: This briefing, in which the Minister instructed a civil servant to brief the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party, concerned the groceries order. Members of the parliamentary party must be confused as to how prices have risen so greatly subsequently, but that is a different issue. What action did the Taoiseach take as a result of receiving the communication from the Standards in Public Office...

Departmental Staff. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the Taoiseach sought clarification or has he communicated these views to the Standards in Public Office Commission? He seems to indicate a level of dissent from the decision it made. Does he intend to involve colleagues on this side of the House in drawing up any views that he might put to it? Surely, he is not putting on the basis of equivalence civil servants briefing Ministers or...

Departmental Staff. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Notwithstanding the Taoiseach's commitment to the House regarding Ministers promoting themselves under the guise of promulgating a Government policy, did I recently read about the Minister of State with special responsibility for children, Deputy Brian Lenihan, telling parents——

Departmental Staff. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Does it not?

Departmental Staff. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: How is that? I thought it was the same issue.

Departmental Staff. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am trying to understand the implications of it for our system.

Departmental Staff. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will. I absolutely accept that. Is the Taoiseach aware that the Minister of State with special responsibility for children briefed parents about the bonanza they will receive in child care?

Departmental Staff. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach indicated he was satisfied with the compliance with the code of conduct for officeholders. Will he state, in respect of recent publicity attaching to a Minister of State in this regard, whether he has checked it and is satisfied there is no basis for the imputation therein?

Departmental Staff. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Maybe the Taoiseach had closer contact with them than the rest of us.

Departmental Staff. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach reading the letter correctly?

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: On the latest developments on electronic voting, two Ministers persisted with the purchase of equipment costing €52 million that has never been used in a general or local election. That is €52 million of taxpayers' money down the drain in one of the biggest examples of waste by this Government. It is worth recalling that a number of experts outside this House warned both former Ministers...

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What will the Taoiseach do about this mess? Will he abandon this crazy scheme and see if he can find anybody gullible enough anywhere in the western world to take the machines off his hands? Does the Taoiseach agree with the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government that they will not be used in the next general election? Does he agree that nothing symbolises the...

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: One thing the Taoiseach has managed up to now differently from his Ministers is not to convey arrogant dismissiveness of the views of others, but he now seems to be venturing into that and demonstrating lack of sure-footedness in other areas as well. The Commission on Electronic Voting issued a report that was damning in its criticism of the system the Taoiseach now seeks to give the...

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: When will the Government move to end, and cut its losses on, this issue? Nothing the Taoiseach has done symbolises more the waste and incompetence associated with his decision making than this issue. Did anybody ever go into one of the Taoiseach's clinics over the past ten years and ask for electronic voting? What is the point in comparisons with other democracies with first-past-the-post...

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am saying the Government is flawed.

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The head messenger would not have bought them.