Results 9,721-9,740 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: If one subtracts that figure from the €1,327 million it means the Taoiseach is out by €1,200 million, or if he accepted the Department of Finance's 50-50 split, which would roughly have given €660 million to the State and €660 to the religious congregations, the Taoiseach is out by €534 million. That is the kind of waste that occurred. Does the Taoiseach admit he was wrong?

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Does he admit the deal was a disaster for the taxpayer? Has he learned any lessons from it other than the lesson we will apparently now have to live with, which is that the Minister, Deputy Cullen, will not tell us the cost of projects anymore?

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: He cannot be wrong on that. If he does not tell us, we cannot know. The Taoiseach defended the Minister, Deputy Cullen, as being wise in not telling us, while the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform applied the opposite methodology when he bought a prison site. He let it be known who the purchaser was and we ended up paying €30 million for a site that was valued...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Good.

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: He should not read the rest of the page.

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The taxpayers will pay for it.

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There is no point in the Taoiseach looking across at me with his "Brian Dobson" eyes and saying "Sure, nobody could have known". If nobody could have known, why did he cap the amount at £100 million? He is dealing with taxpayers' money. There is no point in taking out the handkerchief again and talking about how — it is true — so many thousands of lives were disgracefully ruined. It...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Department of Education and Science's original assessment was €250 million, not €651 million, yet the Taoiseach has ended up paying €1,200 million of taxpayers' money. Many people would translate that into so many classroom places or special needs assistants. Why, if the Department of Finance said 50:50 was a fair division, was it forced from that in a secret arrangement while the...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Attorney General of the day subsequently went into retreat, as he does on occasions like this, and we will have to await his memoirs to hear what happened. This would put special needs assistants into a great many classrooms and provide a lot of additional classroom places. A 50:50 division was regarded as fair by the Department of Finance but the Taoiseach made an unorthodox secret...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: No, the Taoiseach did not.

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Why did the Tánaiste not give that advice at the time, rather than offering it now?

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is not necessarily true and the Taoiseach knows that.

Order of Business (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I have no doubt that the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Ó Cuív, will make all this clear because I am unclear as to what it means. I ask the Taoiseach about the judicial council Bill, which was promised in 2001. It may have a topicality at present. Is it the intention of the Government to publish it? I also ask the Taoiseach about the commitment to...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Having regard to the import of the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform going around muttering darkly about the conclusions of a Moriarty report, would it not be even-handed that Mr. Justice Moriarty should require him to appear before him?

Tribunals of Inquiry. (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Would there not be a lot of common sense in——

Tribunals of Inquiry. (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——bringing the Minister, Deputy McDowell, before the Moriarty tribunal——

Tribunals of Inquiry. (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——to justify his allegation?

Tribunals of Inquiry. (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It does not arise. I will accept the Chair's ruling.

Tribunals of Inquiry. (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The surplus will be gone.

National Security Committee. (24 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach when the National Security Committee last met; when the next meeting will be held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30876/06]