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- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: Proposals emerged under the umbrella of Croke Park II between the employer side and the trade unions and those proposals are being put to ballot or are being dealt with in accordance with the rules and procedures of each union. It would not be helpful for any member of the Government or Member of the House to intrude in the process until we get a result. The unions present at the...
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: There is no FEMPI legislation.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: The heads of the first Bill are being drafted and the reforms will be published this year. The heads of the monuments Bill were approved by the previous Government and this Government is looking at the feasibility of nominating a particularly unfinished estate to include in the list of monuments.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: I spoke to a conference of the Construction Industry Federation this morning on the issue.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: The Bill has completed Second Stage and if amendments are required, they are likely to be approved by the Cabinet very shortly. I expect the Bill to be concluded within a few weeks. There is no legislation on the other issue raised by the Deputy. The arrangement for the particular chief executive referred to was entered into in 2009 and I understand he has a contract to that effect. Since...
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: The heads have not yet come to the Government and as the Deputy knows, the Minister for Justice and Equality has a large legislative schedule. I do not envisage the Bill being published this year.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: The Deputy is referring to the mental capacity Bill. It will be early next session.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: Deputy McDonald, in particular, is very good at describing the problem-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: -----but she is not very good at coming up with solutions. What we need, in these circumstances, are solutions. I would be careful if I was a member of Fianna Fáil, given the legacy of the problem we are discussing. It is remarkable that Fianna Fáil Deputies are prepared to put their heads above the parapet, given their connections to this problem.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: Of course, all one has to do is go out to the north side of Dublin and have a look at the pyrite-affected houses and one understands the Sinn Féin link to the issue.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: We are dealing with a legacy issue and we are seeking to deal with it in as fair and consistent a manner as we can.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: I would hope that at least the party that authored the property tax would now support it.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: I feel like the people of south Tipperary after that because I, too, am bewildered. I am very hurt that Deputy McGrath should make such charges against me and the Government. The fact of the matter is we are trying to protect ordinary people.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: We are trying to put this country back on the road to economic recovery.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: There cannot be any social services or nurses, teachers and fire service personnel in their posts unless we get the economy right. I do not think it is fully understood how grave the situation was when this Government took over. We were on the edge of the abyss. That is how serious it was at the time. Deputy McGrath referred to Cyprus and what is playing out there at the moment. I could...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: -----as a condition of the bailout. There was no statutory measure accompanying that action. There is an awful lot of hypocrisy associated with this.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: There is always an element of theatre about Parliament and I understand the posturing. However, at the end of the day, we have to get the economy right. We are seeking to spread the tax burden as equitably as we can.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: Some colleagues representing Dublin constituencies would say that people from south Tipperary and other provincial constituencies get a better deal under the valuation system than Dubliners. However, there had to be a valuation methodology settled on and the one chosen is based on market value. It is right that the efficacy of the collection system should not be in question and that...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: The fundamental answer I had that night was that what Deputy Pat Carey and his colleagues had done would put the subsequent Government into a straitjacket in terms of its freedom to make economic decisions for this country, and so it has turned out to be.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Pat Rabbitte: The fact of the matter is that from the time of the bank guarantee in 2008 to the general election in 2011, 250,000 of our people were made unemployed. A quarter of a million of our people lost their jobs and the first priority of this Government is to put those people back to work. This is the first priority.