Results 5,901-5,920 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister is the person with the ideological hang up.

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister is the person who forced the man out. He did not even know about the legal case until the last day.

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister did not even know about the legal case until he went back to his Department. How is it progressing?

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister did not even know about it.

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: He did not even know about the legal case.

Departmental Agencies. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister should be on the Abbey stage.

Anti-Social Behaviour. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the anti-social behaviour order mechanism not been a failure? Given the scale of anti-social behaviour in so many of our communities, to talk about three civil and three behaviour orders being issued is absurd. So many of our communities are tortured by anti-social behaviour and people are targeted because they are vulnerable. Anybody who is different, older people, women living alone...

Anti-Social Behaviour. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Why does the Minister always shelter behind "the gardaí should be commended" as if somebody over here is criticising gardaí? On the last day the Minister said the Secretary General is an honourable man. Of course he is. Can we leave that out and deal with anti-social behaviour? The Minister's argument would have some validity if anti-social behaviour was not as widespread as it is at...

Anti-Social Behaviour. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: What is he talking about?

Anti-Social Behaviour. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: What is the Minister talking about?

Anti-Social Behaviour. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I received a letter from the Minister the other day about a petition. I brought no such case to him.

Anti-Social Behaviour. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Let the Minister bring it inside or outside the House.

Anti-Social Behaviour. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: This guy would say anything.

Legislative Programme. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I preface my remarks by saying that I entirely accept the Minister would never have visited a casino in all of his life, or done anything like the things the rest of us might have done from time to time. I accept that he is a paragon of virtue.

Legislative Programme. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I do. Did the Minister meet the people from the casino sector who are seeking regulation? They say a substantial number is employed in the casino sector and that they want to be regulated. They have been intervening with the Department for some considerable time for legislative reform in this area. The Minister might focus on my question now that I have given him complete absolution.

Legislative Programme. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister of State, like myself, would have some sins but we are different from the Minister, who does not sin.

Legislative Programme. (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the Minister met these people or will he meet them? When might legislation come before the House to regulate the sector?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I essentially had concluded my argument which was that the insertion of a sunset clause, as we discussed this morning, would contribute to an easing of tension and restore some belief and confidence in public servants. This is an emergency measure, however, and will terminate after a defined period. The Government sent out the message that it will examine the tax option as a fairer way to...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: As has been said, the scope of the Bill's Title is so broad that we submit it ought, at least, to encompass some of the amendments that have been ruled out. Given that the Bill is a crisis measure, I cannot believe that its provisions should be of indefinite duration. There must be a finite period. The sunset clause intends to suggest that it ought to be for two years and I ask the...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: We should move on with our deliberations because it is clear the Minister has set his face against the concept of a sunset clause. There are other important matters to be discussed. However, this is also an important matter in the sense that pickets will be placed on Leinster House tomorrow morning. Gardaí demonstrated outside the gates to the complex earlier today and the civil and...