Results 681-700 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is evading the question.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will we have a debate on Thursday?

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I will read it if the Taoiseach gives it to me.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: When will the Taoiseach give it to me?

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I hope we will have a debate before the Taoiseach escapes from this House.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is escaping but he will not escape responsibility.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Soft on pirates and the causes of piracy. The postal workers want to know whether the commitment to the ESOP is still Government policy. That is the net issue.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am explaining to the Ceann Comhairle why I am opposing its being taken without debate. The considerable problem faced by postal workers is that they do not know where the Government stands on the question of an ESOP for the workers in the industry. To determine whether we should call a vote on this matter, will the Taoiseach state whether the commitment to an ESOP for the postal workers...

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I agree with Deputy Kenny. Part of the reason we are in this mess is the Government's resorting to the guillotine. The same parties that comprise the Government resorted to the guillotine in 2001 when the universal card was introduced. The Government again resorted to the guillotine at Christmas of last year when the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, compounded the original...

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is clear from the Supreme Court judgment that he knew about this problem in 2001. If not, he was asleep.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It certainly does arise. Any Minister who costs the State €600 million——

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Ceann Comhairle says it does not arise. He wants us to make some errors again.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Martin should do some tots himself. He is either asleep or incompetent.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The figure is €2.5 million per week over 52 weeks for four years, which comes to €600 million. That is what Deputy Martin cost us, and that is only from the time we know the Government knew about this. I do not see how the Taoiseach can invite us again to guillotine a measure of which the Government has made such a mess on so many previous occasions.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We have already seen how the Taoiseach has contrived to evade scrutiny in the House for five weeks on a matter to which taxpayers are exposed to between €500 million——

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach make the report available to the committee tomorrow in this House? He said one will need six and a half to seven hours to read it. The committee will receive it at 10.30 a.m. and sit at 11 a.m., conveniently just after Leaders' Questions. Notwithstanding that, will the Taoiseach commit to the committee meeting in this House where we can discuss an issue that will impose a...

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am asking about the arranging of business. We have heard the excuse that it is costing us €2.5 million for every week. On that basis, the Minister, Deputy Martin, has received €600 million since 2001.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That is a big enough issue for this House to discuss in plenary session. I am asking the Taoiseach one last time to commit to it being debated in this Chamber. What is he fearful of? All his Front Bench have read it but no one on this side of the House has seen sight of it.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister should have read it

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: On the Taoiseach's answer——