Results 5,841-5,860 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: We are ruined so.
- Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: They blank out important information.
- Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Did the Minister meet the auditor?
- Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Given the gravity of the matter, I suggest we seek the agreement of the Minister and the House to extend the allocated time to probe further. The questions should not be left half-answered.
- Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: I will be brief.
- Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: I agree with Deputy Kenny that the Minister's integrity is not in question. I imagine he is over-stretched, as are his officials. However the Minister has put himself at risk with the answers provided to the House this afternoon. We are both agreed that the reason the Minister took his stated position on 29 September was because of the rumours that were rife concerning Anglo Irish Bank,...
- Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Anglo Irish Bank had been in with your Department expressing its concerns for the previous three weeks.
- Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister said that his officials briefed him extensively. How in the name of God could they have briefed him extensively and not brought this to his attention? Why did he not meet with the authors of the report? This is a serious matter. The Minister will recall that not long ago we gave Deputy Micheál Martin a fool's pardon when he had not read the papers about the nursing homes.
- Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: We cannot give that to the Minister for Finance who is mortgaging the country's future on a decision regarding which he did not read all the information available.
- Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Did the author not tell the Minister about this transaction?
- Written Answers — Sheep Sector: Sheep Sector (11 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a package for the sheep sector will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4903/09]
- Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (11 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the â¬17 million in modulation funds to come available in 2009 to 2010 will be targeted toward mountain areas in view of the fact that ewe numbers have fallen from 4.75 to 2.7 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4904/09]
- Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister promised an expurgated version.
- Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: If we find out that, we will bring it to your attention.
- Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: That was changed in the word processor earlier.
- Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: When this series of debates started at the time of the bank guarantee, I stated in the House that recapitalisation was really the issue, so I must say that I hope it works. I hope that what the Government has done with the â¬7 billion actually works. It is very difficult to answer the question on whether it is enough. Until we know the extent of the bad loans, we will not be able to...
- Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Has the Minister established if a blind eye was turned?
- Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister's phone was not working and his bike was locked up.
- Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Hear, hear.
- UN Conventions. (12 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs when Ireland will ratify the UN Convention against Corruption. [5223/09]