Results 4,341-4,360 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Strategic Management Initiative. (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the terms of the reference of the review of the public service that he has asked the OECD to undertake; when it is expected that the review will be completed; the expected cost of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1352/07]

Strategic Management Initiative. (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is never so happy as when speaking about this problem. I do not know whether that is because I cannot understand it. I will reserve judgment until I read his answer, which I could not understand either.

Strategic Management Initiative. (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Perhaps that is part of the problem. Since when did the OECD have any expertise in this area? Is it recruiting consultants in Ireland? I will reserve judgment until I read the Taoiseach's answer, but I am still not clear what the review will do. Perhaps he might put it into simpler English. Does it take the OECD to provide citizens with the opportunity to dial someone in the public...

Strategic Management Initiative. (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: That kind of thing is driving citizens demented. I believe that I recently read that some bright spark in the public service wanted to dig out the Chamber and install a new one for us with plywood and modern gadgetry. I sincerely hope that the Taoiseach will not permit that. There is absolutely no need to dig out the Chamber just because someone wishes us to be an intelligent island at the...

Appointments to State Boards. (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the appointments made to State boards or agencies since June 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3860/07]

Appointments to State Boards. (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: After all that I am not clear on whether the Taoiseach has changed his policy from the one he expressed during his difficulty last year. He said "I appointed them because they were friends, not because of anything they had given me". Has the Taoiseach changed his view in this regard and does he still have friends who have not yet been appointed to something? I will frame my contribution in...

Appointments to State Boards. (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Ceann Comhairle is absolutely correct in this regard and I accept his point entirely. Is there anybody in the Drumcondra retinue who has not been appointed to one agency or another? What is the answer to Deputy Sargent's question on whether it is the intention of the Taoiseach and his Ministers to make appointments on the eve of the general election? Is that practice to be continued on...

Appointments to State Boards. (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I never knew I had Fianna Fáil sleepers all around me.

Appointments to State Boards. (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach will be in a slightly different position after the coming election.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Three guillotines have been proposed.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: I want to use this opportunity to make a general point. The proposals follow an undesirable pattern observed in the House in recent weeks, which the Government clearly intends to continue until polling day following a legislative drought earlier in the year. As Deputy Sargent stated, the Carbon Fund Bill 2006 is important and the House should be given adequate time to debate it.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Electoral Bill must be enacted.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the legislation promised to regulate and control management companies and the Bill to refurbish ethics legislation, which was promised, in particular, by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, be published in the lifetime of this Dáil?

Rural Development. (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on whether his Department's allocation of €425 million, or a 6% share of the €7 billion total provided under the rural development national strategy, is an equitable share; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7702/07]

Rural Transport. (28 Feb 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding he will be providing for rural transport in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7703/07]

Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: The Labour Party opposes the proposal also. To provide 90 minutes at most to take 123 amendments, most of which have been tabled by the Minister, is to fail to provide an adequate opportunity to debate them. Never in the history of Dáil Éireann has the passage from Opposition to Government wrought so great a transformation on a Deputy as it has in the case of the Tánaiste and Minister...

Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: In light of current controversy concerning the alleged existence of a paedophile ring and the abuse of a young boy in this city, is it the case that soliciting and importuning a child for the purposes of sex was an offence under the criminal law but that arising from the legislation put through by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform last summer——

Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: Arising from the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006, the offence of soliciting or importuning a child for sexual purposes has been excised. According to my legal advice——

Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: According to my advice, it is now——

Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: It is no longer——