Results 3,101-3,120 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Martin negotiated that surrender.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: I am surprised by the comments of the two Deputies opposite. There cannot have been a more debated measure before Dáil Éireann for a very long time.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: This measure has been signalled for at least a year and debated up and down the country. I am especially surprised at Deputy Micheál Martin given that he negotiated it.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: Nothing that Mr. Angry from Donegal says surprises me. Anger, unfortunately, is not a policy and I look forward to multiple returns on the home tax from some of the Sinn Féin Deputies. However, it ill behoves the man who negotiated the property tax to come in here posturing like a pantomime dame as if he were now opposed to it, having introduced it in the first place. I know a shop...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: It is proposed to take No. 17, motion re Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Act 2010, and No. 7, Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 17 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 65 minutes and the following arrangements shall apply: the speech of a...
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: It is like an audition for a pantomime.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: The four angry booksellers.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: If the Deputy keeps going this way Deputy Higgins will give him an application form to join his party.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Ross will be out on the streets with Deputy Higgins next.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Ross was speaking on behalf of the Socialist Party.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Martin cannot lecture us.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Services (13 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: The establishment of an Oireachtas TV channel is provided for in Chapter 6, Part 7 of the Broadcasting Act 2009. S 125(2) provides for the channel to be known as in the Irish language, Bealach Thithe an Oireachtais or, in the English language, the Houses of the Oireachtas Channel.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: The fact of the matter is that everybody with a titter of wit knows the state of the economy we inherited. They know the dysfunctional circumstances into which the country was plunged.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: They know now that stability has been restored to the governance of this country. They know that the reputation of this country has been restored. We have a thriving export sector.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: We have the healthiest IDA pipeline we have ever had. Last year, we had the best year we have had for ten years in terms of foreign direct investment. We have difficulties in the consumer economy, but it is not difficult to understand why that should be the case. We are addressing these issues, and against all the odds have managed to bring home a budget under constraints. This is the...
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: We now have the real prospect, if stability returns to the eurozone, of faster growth in this economy than in similar economies elsewhere. Sinn Féin is playing parliamentary games and one-upmanship in the context of whether this motion would create more damage than would the continuation of the budget debate or the debate on the X case. If creating mayhem with a motion of no confidence...
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: I want to welcome Deputy Doherty back. He was kept under wraps for three or four months. I have never been able to find out why. He is a very energetic young man and I do not know why he has been kept under wraps. With the bleating from him and his colleagues-----
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: -----one would think they were keeping the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in business.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: I greatly regret that, because I was only getting started.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Pat Rabbitte: It falls to me to bring this damp squib to an end.