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Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: .... Where inspections took place, like those carried out by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in our meat plants, the management was tipped off in advance. If the rest of us feel shame, there must be people still alive who were alerted to these horrors when they were still serving in their professional lives and who did nothing. Similarly, some clerical authorities were...

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Protection of Debtors) Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: .... One must come from a very cosseted section of society to suggest what the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, did in his script. He said he wanted to emphasise clearly that any person who feels he or she has been threatened or harassed by anyone in the context of recovery of a debt allegedly owed by them, should contact the gardaí. I represent a constituency where debt...

Garda Investigations. (22 Apr 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: ...he had no other choice. He gave evidence and was posted out of the country in the witness protection programme at very great cost to himself and his family. He is back in the jurisdiction and feels that he is not protected and safe. He believes it has not worked as it ought. I will furnish that information to the Minister after Question Time, in the hope that he will treat it with a...

Appointment of Chairperson to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (5 Mar 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: ...of the Garda Síochána and recognises the role it has played in our society since the foundation of the State. It is in the best interests of gardaí themselves that law-abiding citizens would feel that where allegations of misbehaviour are made against individual members of the Garda, they are independently and without fear or favour investigated. While they could not say that up to...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: If the Minister were to agree to a sunset clause, he would go a long way in assuaging the feeling that currently exists among public servants that they have been unfairly singled out by a punitive measure. A sunset clause would at least allow people to understand that normality will return after this period of financial crisis. The Government probably underestimates the damage that has been...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Feb 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I propose to share time with Deputy Morgan. I do not know if the public servants are feeling better after that speech but I am sure Deputy Gogarty feels better, having got it off his chest. He is an honest Deputy, who believes what he says, but that was a fierce bout of self-flagellation and an unusual attack on his coalition partners, which he believes is richly merited. Deputy Gogarty...

Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ...in the face of the international trend by levying higher taxation without setting out any plan for economic recovery. The failure to communicate confidence is worsening the gloom out there. People feel the Government parties are making it up as they go along. According to themselves, Ministers only engaged with the banking crisis when our banks were facing imminent collapse. I have...

Gangland Crime: Motion (18 Nov 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I would love to be able to support the Minister. He should not feel so upset about it.

Brutal Killing in Limerick: Statements. (13 Nov 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ...and viciousness of gangland feuding is a challenge to the Garda Síochána and a challenge to society itself. The first test for any Government is the protection of its citizens. People cannot feel safe in several parts of the country, either on the streets or in their homes. The tragedy that has befallen the Geoghegan family has already been the burden of families of other innocent...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ...from teacher leaders who have tended heretofore to be supportive of the Government. Far from protecting the little people, this decision literally makes the children pay for the recession. I feel especially angry at the savage increase in the third level registration fee from €900 to €1,500, which will kill off the ambition to go to third level in many working-class homes that are...

Morris Tribunal: Statements (22 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ...to me a case of woeful misconduct in his station. Normally I would go to the Minister, and I would have done so with the current Minister's predecessors. I did not go to the current Minister and feel I cannot because he is so petty and partisan, he would——

Morris Tribunal: Statements (22 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ——I feel I am in such a circumstance. The issues that arose in Donegal and gave rise to the Morris tribunal continue to arise around the country. Just last week, for example, we read of allegations that gardaí worked with a convicted drug dealer in allowing the distribution of drugs which were later seized by the same officers. Criminal charges relating to a €1.7 million drugs find...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ...discover from the Minister the tenor of his exchanges with the European Union on this matter. It seems the relevant Commissioner is less than pleased with individual states taking decisions they feel they must take. The Minister has given no indication of the actions for which he got the nod or otherwise. Is it the case that the legislation would be classified as the provision of state...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: .... In circumstances where mergers are contemplated, presumably the Minister will confirm that normal competition law applies and that this provision relates only to circumstances where the Minister feels it necessary to intervene for the stability of the financial system, or whatever. What about the situation that arises when the hurricane blows itself out? A major bank in the...

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Jun 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ...is right, within limits, that the Garda should have such powers. The sickness in our society where young people drink to get drunk is more difficult to address. Why do persons at such a young age feel the need to join the binge drinking merry-go-round? Is the drink culture so all-pervasive that young people regard it as a necessary rite of passage? What blame attaches to adults if this...

Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ...injustice he thinks might be done to him. We in this House have all met constituents who believe that their case is not being acted on in a timely manner or is being negligently handled and who feel that they do not owe money as alleged by their solicitor. Even if we intervene, it is extremely difficult to get the file back. I hope that a code of practice will be designed to deal with...

Asylum Applications. (11 Mar 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ...head down and, amazingly, to provide expressly for the continuation in office of Mr. Ryan in the recently published Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2008. The reason the Minister should feel it necessary to stitch into law the reappointment of Mr. Ryan as distinct from exercising his right in the normal way to appoint a chairman betrays a mind-set that is deeply troubling and...

Anti-Social Behaviour: Motion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ...mainly afflicts communities in the lower socioeconomic area. Some of the worst affected neighbourhoods attract little attention from this House because the voter turnout is low. Many residents feel alienated from society and these law-abiding citizens bear the brunt of anti-social behaviour in such estates. The effect is debilitating and corrosive, and undermines the quality of life....

Crime Levels. (4 Mar 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Is it not the first duty of Government to ensure citizens feel safe walking the streets and in their homes? That is not the case at present. It is all very well for the Minister to say he condemns the public disorder but it is not very reassuring for parents who are concerned when their young son or daughter goes out at night whether they will come home without being the victim of an...

National Drugs Strategy: Statements (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: ...are involved with community organisations, most of whom have garnered extraordinary experience at the coalface, tell me that the partnership approach is being undermined in some areas. Such people feel there is a reversion to the time when the statutory agencies sought to control the strategy in that the agencies are starting to assert themselves in certain areas once more and trying to...