Results 3,241-3,260 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: What is the answer to the question I asked?
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: What kind of all-party committee will it be? The Taoiseach did not answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach took up his entire timeââ
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: It makes a farce of Question Time if we do not get answers.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: What kind of all-party committee will it be? That is disrespectful to the House.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: We are entitled to answers and we did not get them.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I am not taking Deputy Sargent's time. We are entitled to answers.
- Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of the recent discussions on a new social partnership agreement. [23298/06]
- Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: As the Taoiseach well knows, successive agreements traded moderate pay increases against tax reductions, some of them not insignificant, over the years. On a number of occasions the Taoiseach said that the tax-cutting agenda in question has run its course, with that era over. Is that still his view?
- Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?
- Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I make common cause with the Taoiseach on this issue. If he has any difficulty in the autumn putting through a budget that gives some relief to people on very low incomes, we will be happy to support him. However, his partners in Government have indicated that they wish to cut the top rate of tax for high earners. I am glad to hear the Taoiseach make a commitment that any improvements in the...
- Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: My question concerns remarks the Taoiseach made on the radio about benchmarking. Following the recommendation by a number of public sector unions that the new social contract not be agreed, the Taoiseach appeared to make plain that if the contract fell through, the entire benchmarking process would fall through. Is my understanding correct?
- Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Will benchmarking continue, irrespective of whether the contract falls through?
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: This is not a satisfactory way to do our business. Of 417 amendments, 55 have been dealt with so far. On Committee Stage, there were more than 210 pages of amendments. The Bill bears no similarity to the legislation initially introduced. My party is alarmed by the information given by the Taoiseach this morning. Given that this is the only criminal justice legislation before the House and we...
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Despite its gravity, I do not see any other way in which to address the matter. The Bill is the only criminal justice legislation before the House.
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: If 42 people have been charged but are awaiting a decision of the courts under section 1 of the 1935 Act, in how many instances have the charges been withdrawn?
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: That is very interesting. Having failed to get this information from the Taoiseach over the past number of weeks, and following our letter to the DPP, he gave me this information in the second bite of Leaders' Questions this morning when I could not respond. When the Taoiseach said other charges will be proffered against the 42 persons, surely it is beyond the bounds of probability that in...
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The issue is not whether the Opposition is as concerned to urgently address this issue as the Government. That is not in doubt. The Taoiseach read out a long, prepared script about young girls being subjected to cross-examination. That is the very stipulation that is put into the legislation his Government enacted and he is reading back to us the criticisms we made of it at the time. We...
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The Ceann Comhairle deliberately abridged today's Order of Business to facilitate the Taoiseach on an important matter. This was the first issueââ
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The Chair should hear me out.