Results 4,421-4,440 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: The Government has decided to give private developers a write off for the construction costs of private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals. On 28 February, I asked the Taoiseach if it was the Government's intention to proceed with the signing of contracts to implement that scheme between now and the general election. The Taoiseach told me, "I am not aware of any contract. The...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Once again the Taoiseach has not answered any of the questions I asked. He said he does not know. Quite honestly, I do not believe that for a second. None of the Taoiseach's predecessors could come into this House and get away with the way the Taoiseach twists and obfuscates. Is the Taoiseach seriously telling me that the Government is maintaining this shift towards a for-profit system of...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Tenders for what?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: What do I think? It does not matter what I think.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: I did not decide the policy.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Tenders for what? Is it to lease or to sell?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Is it to lease or to sell?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: No, it is not.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Of course we do.
- Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (20 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of outstanding uncollected taxes; the proportion of same the Revenue Commissioners expect to recover; if any new measures are planned to assist in the collection of outstanding taxes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10228/07]
- Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (20 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the implications for the Irish economy of the recent quarter point increase in interest rates announced by the European Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10217/07]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (20 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 614: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the delays in pensioners receiving prompt assessment and payment of their entitlements are ongoing and that such delays are currently running to six months from date of application; the number of pensioners who have submitted applications which have not been assessed; the numbers...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: If the Taoiseach keeps this up, he can be his own warm-up man for the jamboree at the weekend. Yesterday I asked, and the Taoiseach refused to answer, how many tens of millions of euro of taxpayers' money will be bestowed on the lads from the tent at the Galway Races to build private hospitals on the public grounds of our existing hospitals. This morning, I would like to raise another public...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: ââanything Deputy Kenny has instanced about the other decisions on which the Taoiseach wasted so much money during the lifetime of this Government. What guarantees can the Taoiseach give the taxpayer that this pattern on the Thornton Hall project will not continue? I notice the Minister forgot to factor in an access to the site. The Lord knows how much he will pay for the roadway in...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: It is the Comptroller and Auditor General's view.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: It is not my view. It is the view of the Comptroller and Auditor General. It is the view of experts who saw the sale of the adjacent site at the weekend. It is not akin to Castlerea. If the Taoiseach believes the people at Killsallaghan have the same view as the people of Castlerea, he should make one of his flying visits to the area. He moves around the country faster than the MRSA bug....
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: This is the same Minister who said Mary Robinson would not be right for the Parkââ
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: ââbecause it would cause a flight of capital. This is the same Minister, Deputy Seamus Brennan, who was the architect of the 1977 package of proposals and who puts on his very sincere face and tells the Opposition that their proposals will cost too much. I wonder in that instance what he thinks of the proposals of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowellââ
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: ââwho promised to spend â¬6.8 billion at his party conference. The Taoiseach is in no position to lecture about value for money and waste of public money when he stands over a decision like Thornton Hall. It has been a waste of money. It did not meet valuation criteria. It was embarked on in the manner that has been rigorously criticised not by me but by the Comptroller and Auditor...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: They would be all out if the Government did not build unconfined prisons.