Results 8,681-8,700 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach knows as well as I doââ
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: I know you did.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: I acknowledge it.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has accepted it since 1922.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: I hope not.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: If we are to continue to fight about it, the Taoiseach is doomed.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Now the Taoiseach is defending it.
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the social partners in Dublin Castle on 15 February 2007; the main issues raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8361/07]
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: What assurances can the Taoiseach give employees who are concerned that the entire value of the pay increase provided for in the new agreement will be wiped out by the effect of inflation? What is the Taoiseach's assessment of the worryingly high level of inflation now? The Taoiseach told me before the break that there were 60 labour inspectors in place last year and that there would be 90...
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: You have not even heard it yet, Sir.
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: I wanted to say to the Taoiseach that I wanted to withdraw the charge I made that he was telling me fibs. I must accept his word that it was inadvertent. Given that only 31 labour inspectors were in place before the break and the commitment is to have 90, how many are in post now and how many will be in post by the end of the year? I hope that has mollified the Ceann Comhairle.
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: I do not want to cause the Ceann Comhairle's blood pressure to rise. I am in a very agreeable mood today as things are looking very sunny.
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Was the issue of decentralisation raised with the Taoiseach in the discussions with the social partners? I notice that all Government Deputies boycotted the meeting in Liberty Hall on the forced relocation of civil and public servants to various parts of provincial Ireland which has been put in place instead of a balanced programme of negotiated decentralisation. The latter might have...
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Why not, sir? This is a meeting with the social partners.
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: We are asking about the meeting with the social partners.
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: I do not know how in the next Dáil we will roll back some of the new precedents the Ceann Comhairle has established. They have made a joke of Question Time. Members have put down questions to the Taoiseach about his meeting with the social partners. I am asking him if decentralisation came up and what assurances he can give the very many people in this city who have children in education...
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: On the key issue of inflation, the Taoiseach stated that the two main elements contributing to the extraordinary position in Ireland are energy prices and interest rates. Is it not the case that those member states which are members of the eurozone are subject to exactly the same regime of interest rates and pay the same prices for oil and gas on the international exchange? Why is it that...
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: It arises out of the Taoiseach's reply. He dealt with the matter at some length in response to Deputy Kenny. I am asking a question which arises from the Taoiseach's answer.
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Can a timeframe be agreed that would permit the phasing in by a certain date of the 35 hour week and allow any pay claims to be dealt with by the existing machinery? Is that not the broad parameter of a settlement to this dispute? Ultimately, there must be a settlement. Why risk further alienating nurses whose work at the coalface is essential? Whoever is to blame for the shambles that is...
- Written Answers — Construction Industry: Construction Industry (5 Apr 2007)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 82: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the reports of a slow down in residential construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13259/07]