Results 9,521-9,540 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: This morning Greencore announced plans for a €1.1 billion development on the site of the old sugar plant at Carlow. I hope, in principle, that appropriate development will take place there and that it will contribute to the regeneration of Carlow and employment at the site. Last night I had the opportunity to meet the former workers of Greencore who explained to me in respect of the...

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. We ended up paying taxpayer's money to Greencore to knock down the plant and are now going to build a new biofuel plant. Having facilitated this, even the few bob due to the workers under the agreement is not being paid to them. It is utterly unacceptable that a major company such as this should evade its responsibilities to the workforce and trample all over...

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is true that Greencore has done very well from the package. Unfortunately, it is not true that the workers, growers or the economy have done equally well from the manner in which the Government has handled this issue. We are left with a site which has tremendous development potential for the company but not necessarily for the generation of wealth and certainly not for the growers and...

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The workers are owed €4.4 million by a company that, as the Taoiseach himself stated, stands to make extraordinary profits from the development of the site. We stand to lose two factories and we have to build a biofuel plant when the factory in Carlow might well have been adapted for that purpose. The company can buy in developers into its new shareholding structure. The company will...

Constitutional Amendments. (21 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Constitution is the type of issue that can be adequately dealt with in a minute. I will be brief. On 14 June, the Taoiseach stated in the House: "We do not have a plan at this stage to have a constitutional referendum in the lifetime of this Dáil." Is this still his intention? Do I understand him to have said that he does not believe that a referendum will arise from the St. Andrews...

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (21 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if his attention has been drawn to the call made by the Director of Public Prosecutions for the establishment of a dedicated legal policy unit within his office; if it is intended to provide the finance and resources to allow such an office to be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28373/06]

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (21 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff, broken down by grade, employed in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions; the way these compare with the establishment level; if he is satisfied that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has sufficient staff to discharge its functions adequately; if he has received a request for additional staff for the office;...

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (21 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I welcome the more open disposition of the current Director of Public Prosecutions and the number of changes he has introduced, such as availability of books of information, a recent "Prime Time" interview, which is not the first interview he has given, and so on. The DPP pointed out that his office is often called upon in respect of matters of legal policy. He stated: With the increasing...

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (21 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach speaking mainly of prosecutorial policy? Is the DPP being asked to make an input to policy preparation? The Taoiseach said the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform contacted him on various matters. Are the DPP's views being sought on the matter of legal policy as distinct from prosecution policy? Does the Taoiseach wish to comment on the DPP's comments in his...

Constitutional Amendments. (21 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the recommendations of the various reports of the Oireachtas All-Party Committee on the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34031/06]

Constitutional Amendments. (21 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach his proposals for referenda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34032/06]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Strength: Defence Forces Strength (16 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Defence if he proposes to restore the 250 training appointments granted to the Defence Forces in the White Paper on Defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38185/06]

Written Answers — Military Discipline: Military Discipline (16 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Defence the scheme of military discipline in the Defence Forces; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that PDFORRA believes that its officials have been victimised by improper use of such military discipline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38184/06]

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (15 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date in regard to the process of consultation with the social partners in regard to the question of access to the Irish labour market for workers from Bulgaria and Romania following the accession of those countries to the EU; the form this process has taken; when it is expected to be concluded; and if...

Company Liquidations. (15 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department or any agency under its aegis has been requested by the Employment Appeals Tribunal to provide information regarding the winding up of a company (details supplied); if so, if they have complied with these requests; the status of the investigations being undertaken by various agencies under the aegis of...

Order of Business (15 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach confirm if I am correct in assuming that legislation will be necessary to establish a toll on the M50 and can he indicate when it will be published? Is the Government any more clear in terms of its intentions to hold a referendum on the rights of the child? What is the Taoiseach's view on whether it will be held during the lifetime of this Dáil?

Order of Business (15 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Surely the Taoiseach is not misleading intentionally, but is he sure about that information on legislation? We have had information from a number of people in the House and I believe from the Taoiseach on one occasion, if I remember correctly, that legislation will be necessary to do what is now proposed in terms of implementing a State toll on the M50.

Order of Business (15 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach might check it.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Given that it would cost about one tenth of the cost of the buy-back to build a new bridge, does the Government have any plans or intention to investigate the original 1987 contract which so disadvantaged the State and which has left us with a situation that we cannot even build a bridge? The State cannot even build a new bridge adjacent to the existing bridge because of the contract entered...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There is no technological barrier to implementing barrier free tolling immediately. There was just a reluctance——