Results 7,081-7,100 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister's response to my question about a major infrastructural project is a good example of the manner in which the Government treats the House. It shelters behind commercial sensitivity and other protections in order to avoid telling the House what is going on. I do not know anybody who agrees with the Government that a huge prison facility should be constructed on the Dublin-Meath...
- Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister says that during a tendering process, one should not advertise how much one is likely to pay. That is exactly what the Government did when it bought the land concerned. The Government let it be known that it had â¬30 million to spend on a farm on which to build a prison. It got a farm, all right. The Minister expects me to jump up and down and applaud him for building a wall...
- Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Does the Minister remember anything about Brian Boru, in the 10th and 11th centuries? He should answer my question about the present.
- Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Our priority was to keep the country on an even keel and not let it go down the tubes, as the Minister's party has done.
- Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister is never directly involved in anything that goes wrong.
- Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: That is exactly what happened after the collapse of the M50.
- Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: If the project, as arranged with the preferred bidder under the PPP, has collapsed, why can the Minister not make public the financing arrangements that were being sought, so that we can make an assessment regarding value for money? The Minister believes one should only compare parties on the basis of what they did when in government. When the Labour Party was in government we handed over...
- Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: And 439,000 of them have lost them.
- Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: The process has collapsed.
- Prison Building Programme (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: It is history.
- Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: All penal experts say the opposite.
- Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: They all say the opposite.
- Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Of course it is.
- Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: I even go to Dundalk.
- Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: When that prisoner gets out, the Minister should appoint him to the board of Anglo Irish Bank.
- Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: A Cheann Comhairle, it must have been tough to put up with him over 25 years. I do not know how you did it.
- Family Law Provisions (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: This is a bit like the debate on alternative strategies to deal with the incarceration of young people and the cost that accrues to the taxpayer. Putting more resources into the mediation side of family law would be in the interests of the taxpayer in the long term. How frequently do we get cases in our clinics from people who find it very difficult to access the courts in this area? I...
- Written Answers — Prison Accommodation: Prison Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 171: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will confirm that a new prison block at Wheatfield Prison, Dublin, has been lying idle for more than six months due to a failure to provide kitchen facilities; the cost of the construction of the block; the reason kitchen facilities were not provided; when it is planned to bring the block into service; and if he...
- Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (30 Jun 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 172: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of recorded cases of so-called tiger robberies in which staff or relations of staff of financial institutions were taken hostage in each year from 2005 to 2009 and to date in 2010; the amount of money taken in such robberies; the discussions he has had with a bank (details supplied) regarding the most recent...
- Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Will she raise it with the Queen when she comes?