Results 1,401-1,420 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I want to return to the matter of Garda conduct in Donegal and the Carty report which was completed and submitted in July 2000. This was a report by a senior policeman into the awful, appalling, unbelievable and bizarre allegations surrounding the conduct and performance of the Garda in Donegal. In November 2001, the Government voted down a joint motion in the name of my Labour Party...

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach say the Minister similarly misled him and the Cabinet at the time, that he had the Carty report in his possession and that it did not bear out the grave character of allegations of abuse and dereliction of duty of the Garda in Donegal?

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister, Deputy McDowell, gave us that information on Friday.

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: There is no way one could read everything the Minister says but he told us on Friday——

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is a first that the Taoiseach can think of no defence.

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Either the Minister, Deputy McDowell, is telling this House an untruth or the Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue, told this House an untruth regarding a grave matter which goes to the cornerstone of our democracy. I ask the Taoiseach as head of the Government to answer the question. I put it to him that both Ministers are now being untruthful, that the Government possessed the Carty report and that...

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It did not have an official report from the Garda.

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach should not be talking rubbish.

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The people of Donegal have suffered enough.

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It certainly did not take on board any of the recommendations.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I was very sorry to learn of the untimely death of Seán Doherty. On my behalf and on behalf of the Labour Party, I join the Taoiseach and Deputy Kenny in extending our condolences, in particular to his wife, Maura and to his four daughters. It could be said that Seán Doherty's political life was a game of two halves. I only played the second half with him and am bound to say that I enjoyed...

Morris Tribunal: Motion. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I move: That Dáil Éireann, —conscious of the widespread and justified public disquiet at the findings of the first and second reports of the tribunal of inquiry into complaints concerning some gardaí of the Donegal division; —appreciative of the work of Mr. Justice Morris and of the significance of his recommendations for the future operation of the Garda Síochána; —noting in...

Morris Tribunal: Motion. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That is unfair and untrue. The Minister should not go down that road.

Morris Tribunal: Motion. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We did not say that.

Morris Tribunal: Motion. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: No, we did not.

Morris Tribunal: Motion. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We have thought about them.

Morris Tribunal: Motion. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is not reform.

Morris Tribunal: Motion. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That was almost 25 years ago.

Morris Tribunal: Motion. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Ireland was a different place 25 years ago and the Minister knows it.

Morris Tribunal: Motion. (21 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister was the stoutest supporter of that Government.