Results 5,921-5,940 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: The Labour Party supports these amendments. People who are unfamiliar with the medical card system are always surprised to discover the low level at which the threshold is set. The proposition that medical card holders should be exempted is reasonable and we support it.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: For the month of March.
- Banking System: Motion (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: The motion before us in the name of Deputy Richard Bruton is a fairly broad and comprehensive resolution. It could be said this motion relates to the restoration of confidence in the management of our economy. The first element of the motion is the need to take control of the direction of the public finances, a debate which to some extent we have already had. The second aspect is the...
- Banking System: Motion (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: It is not over, Deputy Flynn.
- Banking System: Motion (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Fahey had a busy morning.
- Banking System: Motion (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: The Deputy should take that back. I made no such comment.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: On the same point, I presume section 8 was not inserted without the authors having something in mind. When I first read the section I concluded the Minister must have in mind providing an exemption for Deputies as a category.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: I then decided I had better warn him that if he were to exercise this power, he could well guarantee that the citadel will be stormed. Whatever chance we have of keeping our heads above water, the Minister needs to be careful what category he chooses to exempt. What does the term "materially distinguished" mean in these circumstances? Those who authored this provision must have in mind some...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Will the Minister give us an example? Is he referring to the general medical scheme or pharmacists and other people with whom the Minister for Health and Children has contracted to pay a certain amount? Is he saying that he will have powers under this section to cause a reduction in the services to these categories of professional?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Does this provision apply to non-medical consultants of the kind that has proliferated across the Civil Service in recent times?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: If the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has hired a consultancy firm to advise him on energy policy, I doubt that a reduction on the contract price can be enforced through application of this measure.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Would the Minister consider public relations consultancies as professional services?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Burton is correct that this is about providing clarity. Taxpayers would welcome this measure if they believed it could be enforced and if the Minister could provide us with some examples in this regard. The Attorney General's office has reasonably frequent resort to senior counsel advice from the Law Library. I am presuming, Minister, that this provision is contemporaneous with the...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: What figure are the Minister's advisers factoring in for sections 9 and 10? What contribution is that making to the national effort?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Did the Minister say â¬80 million for both?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: The kind of person from whom one would stay away.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Ingrown toenails.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister is trying to burst up the family.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Could somebody restrain the Minister?
- Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (25 Feb 2009)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gun murders that have taken place since the beginning of 2009; his views on the spate of gun murders in the Dublin area and the extent to which this reflects the continued operation of criminal gangs; the steps being taken to deal with such murders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7579/09]