Results 3,181-3,200 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I shared a constituency with the Tánaiste for many years.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I want to explain that I do not switch sides and I express solidarity with her.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: May I come back to the question raised, given the importance of the issue of road safety? What exactly is the Government's explanation for installing cameras, half of which are described as defective?

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That is true, but the question of road safety is important. As the late Mr. Haughey said, nothing this Government does seems to work.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There are electronic voting machines that do not work and a computer system in the health services that does not work. Are the cars travelling too fast for them to be photographed? What exactly is the problem?

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to raise another issue. The Taoiseach undertook to come back to me on the printing and publication of the Barr report on the shooting of John Carty. Has progress been made on that? Will it be published and will an opportunity be provided to debate the report in the House before it rises for the summer recess?

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: This shooting happened in 2000 and Mr. Justice Barr concluded his inquiry in 2004.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: No, we did not.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: This is the business of the House.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: A citizen was killed in an incident about which we know well.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: How is it that reports will be churned out after the House goes into recess?

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The same is happening with the Dalton report. Every journalist in the country has a version of the Dalton report but it has still has not been made available to Members of this House weeks later.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Chair is very unfairly trying to clamp down on pertinent questions about road safety, the publication of reports and so on.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I greatly resent the claim——

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Road safety is not wasting the time of the House and I resent the claim that we are abusing it. The Barr report is a matter of fundamental public interest——

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——and it is not right that the Government should deliberately contrive to publish it when the House is in recess.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Bill drafted by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform for some of the Progressive Democrats Senators have the support of the Government? I refer to the Bill on home defence.

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Why not?

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Bill have the support of the Government?

Written Answers — Defence Forces Strength: Defence Forces Strength (22 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of soldiers who are accommodated in army barracks; the number of soldiers in each barrack; the number of units of accommodation in each barrack; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23729/06]