Results 401-420 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Order of Business. (16 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: As we speak, US forces are pounding Falluja with apparently little regard for civilian casualties or the rights of the wounded. Has the Taoiseach registered a protest to the American ambassador——

Order of Business. (16 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: ——or does the Government intend to continue to make Shannon available for the transport of troops, regardless of the casualties in Iraq?

Order of Business. (16 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: It is traditional to permit party leaders to put——

Order of Business. (16 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I could have raised the matter under the general socialist cover but I chose not to do so. This is a serious matter about which many Members are concerned.

Order of Business. (16 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I thought the Taoiseach might take the opportunity to comment on what we have witnessed, via our televisions screens, in Falluja.

Order of Business. (16 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: What we see on our televisions is abuse of civil rights and the Geneva Convention.

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (16 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he intends to make the promised order under the Consumer Affairs Act to require doctors, dentists and allied health professionals to publicly display their prices, which was first promised almost a year ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28365/04]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (16 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the response he has had to the consultation paper on the community employment scheme published by his Department in July 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28364/04]

Written Answers — Disability Support Service: Disability Support Service (16 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the breakdown, on a subhead basis, of the €2.5 billion spent in 2004 on disability specific services; if a detailed breakdown is not possible, the way in which the total figure is arrived at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28535/04]

Proposed Legislation. (23 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if the approval of the Attorney General was sought by his Department in regard to the subcontracting out to private firms of the drafting of legislation; the number of occasions on which such consent was given; if the Attorney General is satisfied with the drafting of legislation outside his office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22145/04]

Proposed Legislation. (23 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: What is the Taoiseach's view of the subcontracting out of legislation to be drafted, whether that of his Department or other Departments, on the instructions of the Department as distinct from the Attorney General? Since the Taoiseach's answer to me, which I took to mean that legislation was not being subcontracted out, Deputy Burton told me that the Central Bank Bill was contracted out at a...

Proposed Legislation. (23 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach seems to be saying that where primary legislation was contracted out, work was done up to heads of Bill stage and the drafting then done in the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. Can the Taoiseach be more clear? He has expressed the matter in one way. Another way of putting it would be to say the quality of the outside work is not up to scratch and that the drafting must be...

National Security. (23 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if the high-level group established within his Department in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks is still functioning; if he will report on its recent work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23383/04]

National Security. (23 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Whatever Jesse Jackson felt about the way he was quoted, is the Taoiseach saying that the advice from the high-level group is that the ongoing facilitation of American troops to Iraq through Shannon is not a factor in the considerations here? For example, how is it that people in captivity can be transferred from Iraq to Cuba without going through Shannon Airport? The Minister for Justice,...

National Security. (23 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach know whether prisoners are being transported from Iraq to Guantanamo Bay by the Americans?

Leaders' Questions. (23 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the Taoiseach had the opportunity to examine the annual report of the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland, published last Thursday? The report shows yet again that 200 people die of lung cancer directly attributable to radon gas. That is more than half the number of people who die in road accidents each year and we quite properly spend tens of millions on the effort to save lives...

Leaders' Questions. (23 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: If we do not get rid of the gas, tax breaks will be of little use.

Leaders' Questions. (23 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Radon gas is the most significant, secret and deadly killer after smoking. I do not see how the Taoiseach can say that the solution is ventilation and advice. It is exclusion precautions that must be installed, not ventilation, at a cost of some €10,000 per unit. The cost of treating a cancer patient could be €1 million. My colleague, Deputy Stagg, established a remedial grant scheme but...

Resignation of Member. (23 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I still remember him, but nobody on the Government benches does.

Order of Business. (23 Nov 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I must oppose the late sitting because it is the only mechanism available to me to ask the Taoiseach to explain why he switched the Health Bill and the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Bill. The Government has been promising the Health Bill for 18 months. It is supposed to provide for major reform of the health service. The Bill was published on Friday, most Deputies will have received it in...