Results 1,941-1,960 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Legislative Programme. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: As the Taoiseach will know, the National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002 was initiated in 2002 but it has still not been enacted. I wish to make a suggestion regarding the North-South civic consultative forum provided for in the Good Friday Agreement. Would it be possible to deal with this issue by way of an amendment to the National Economic and Social Development Office...
- Legislative Programme. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach stated he could not recall where the Seanad reform issue stands. Is the Government serious about Seanad reform or is the purpose of this entire exercise the inclusion of representatives from Northern Ireland on a cross-community basis? Does the Taoiseach intend these to be included in the 11 nominees of the Taoiseach or would it be otherwise? Does the Taoiseach accept the...
- Legislative Programme. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: So did I.
- Legislative Programme. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach might take an initiative, legislatively speaking.
- Cabinet Committees. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social inclusion and drugs last met; and when the next meeting is scheduled. [24375/05]
- Cabinet Committees. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: It strikes me there are more people on the sub-committee than in the Cabinet. In view of recent experiences in this area, is there an argument for reorganisation of Departments so a single Department focusses on needs of children in all respects as responsibilities for these needs is currently scattered across several Departments? The experience of successive Ministers of State is that they...
- Cabinet Committees. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: I am not asking the Taoiseach to specify them, but are any new initiatives planned to cope with the relatively recent phenomenon of cocaine abuse?
- Cabinet Committees. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: I am merely asking a general question, Sir. Last weekend alone, we saw three gangland killings.
- Cabinet Committees. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: There were three killings last weekend alone.
- Decentralisation Programme. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department, broken down by grade, who have applied to the central applications facility for transfer to locations outside of Dublin under the Government's decentralisation proposals; the likely impact of these transfers on his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24377/05]
- Decentralisation Programme. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Based on the experience of the Taoiseach's Department, will the cost of retraining people to replace those who have been decentralised be a significant factor throughout the Civil Service? Is anyone within the Government examining the price being paid for landââ
- Decentralisation Programme. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: I am not sure about that. It applies across all Departments, including the Department of the Taoiseach. The cost seems to be prohibitive. Some of the replies to parliamentary questions we have tabled suggest that as much as â¬430,000 an acre is being paid for land in urban centres. Is there a concern within Government about this?
- Decentralisation Programme. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is the Head of the Government. His Departmentââ
- Decentralisation Programme. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: His Department is minimally involved and therefore I am entitled to ask whether anybody is looking at the prohibitive prices being paid for land to accommodate the decentralisation programme.
- Order of Business. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: I read with some amazement this morning the conviction of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment that for 18 years, the groceries order has acted against the interests of consumers. Whatever hope I had for consumers, when I heard the Minister predict that the abolition of the groceries order would save the consumer â¬1,000 on average annually, my heart fell to my shoes for...
- Order of Business. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: I am sorry. I know the Ceann Comhairle has been in the Chair a long time, but I am not at all finished yet. Are any measures promised by the Taoiseach in that area? Given the Taoiseach's interest in the matter, I am surprised at the delay in setting up the authority to facilitate the transfer of DIT to the Grangegorman campus. What is the delay in naming the authority and letting it get on...
- Order of Business. (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: So the authority will be announced soon.
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of civil servants and other public servants who will have been decentralised from Dublin to other locations by the original deadline for the completion of the plan of December 2006; if, in view of the very poor response to the scheme so far, he has plans to review the scale or scope of the proposal; and if he will make a statement on...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (9 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance the information available from the central applications facility in respect of applications from civil servants and other public servants currently located in Dublin who wish to transfer to new locations outside of Dublin under the Government's decentralisation programme; the way in which this compares with the Government target of 10,300; if...
- Order of Business. (10 Nov 2005)
Pat Rabbitte: Yesterday the Northern Secretary, with what some would think a bizarre sense of timing, published legislation in the House of Commons concerning "on the runs". The numbers seem to have exploded from the anticipated couple of dozen to a few hundred. Is the Minister satisfied that no legislation is required in this jurisdiction? Given the statutory independence of the Director of Public...