Results 461-480 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: The issue of rent controls has arisen because of a supply side problem that currently exists. Unfortunately, such a problem cannot be resolved overnight as it takes to time to build houses, even when investment is available. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, is working on a proposal at the moment and I hope he is finessing it for an announcement that will be...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: Changes in the fiscal regime must and will be reflected in the Finance Bill.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: The court of appeal Bill is due before the Government next week and it is intended that it will be enacted this term if the time can be found. I do not wish to comment on a story about a colleague on the other side of the House without first knowing the facts.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: The first will be before the House at the end of the year and the second will be for publication before the House rises at the end of this session.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: That Bill is well advanced and will be published this session.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Deputy comparing farmers to wildlife? What is he talking about? That Bill was enacted last June.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: The geothermal energy development Bill was initiated under my predecessor but I changed the order of priority in favour of a new minerals development Bill. The minerals development Bill is in the final stages and will go before committee within the next month. It is a major piece of legislation on minerals. Regarding the Council of Europe convention combatting violence against women and...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: It is unusual to get an Opposition question that is balanced and that acknowledges that on the one hand the provision of community services in the State are comparable to anything in any member state in Europe and on the other hand-----

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: -----as Deputy O'Sullivan said, that community development has been a focus of public policy under successive Governments in this country for a very long time. A decision has not been made to privatise community development in Ireland.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: There is a very limited area where for reasons of efficiency and value for money a minor aspect of the fabric of community development in this country will be procured from outside. The existing programmes will continue, including the programme to which Deputy O'Sullivan referred - the drugs task forces which I established 20 years ago -that have contributed significantly in the areas worst...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: Fine, Mattie, I will.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: At the moment I would like to hear from the questioner what particular programmes she is concerned about.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: I will, but perhaps the partnership areas are different from what Deputy O'Sullivan described in the north inner city. My understanding is that the partnerships, for example, can themselves bid in cases where the contract is put out to tender. In terms of the islands, as it happens I am visiting such a situation next week - Arranmore off Donegal - in respect of an inclusion programme run...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: It is proposed to take No. 2, Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013 - amendments from the Seanad (resumed); No. 23, Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stages; No. 1, Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Bill 2013 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 26, statements on the Cooke report - the order shall not resume...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: Are you buying or selling, Mattie?

Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: -----Second Stage; and No. 12, report on the draft general scheme of an Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: At the previous meeting in which I was involved Ministers were contending for space in the House to advance Government legislation. A plethora of Government legislation is available and there is more time now than was ever the case in the House for Private Members' Bills.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: The Friday sittings are an initiative of the Government and Deputy Ó Cuív knows as well as I do that Private Members' legislation has always been taken in Private Members' time in the past and somehow we managed. Perhaps it was the case in those days that Members did not have the same familiarity with legislation as is the case now, but my impression is that there are still many...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: In fairness, that is a pretty hackneyed cliché. Sometimes I am completely taken aback by how conservative Sinn Féin is. It seems to want to retain the status quo. For the period of time I have been in government, I have heard Deputies opposite, including, prominently, Sinn Féin, whingeing about the housing rental supplement and how it assists poverty traps and prevented...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: They will not.