Results 10,101-10,120 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I welcome the Tánaiste's assurance. I hope it turns out to be so.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: However, we have received legal advice to the contrary.

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions with the Financial Regulator on the subject of interest only mortgages; his views on the fact that interest only mortgages are being encouraged by the banking sector with some banks providing 100 per cent mortgages with interest only repayments; if he intends to take measures to regulate the provision of interest only...

Written Answers — Social Finance: Social Finance (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the Government's Social Finance Fund, the way in which applicants will be assessed when applying for a loan from the fund; if community projects with limited or no direct income from clients will be eligible for loans from this fund; if there will be a mentoring or skill transfer programme provided by the banks to reduce the numbers of...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That is very interesting. Having failed to get this information from the Taoiseach over the past number of weeks, and following our letter to the DPP, he gave me this information in the second bite of Leaders' Questions this morning when I could not respond. When the Taoiseach said other charges will be proffered against the 42 persons, surely it is beyond the bounds of probability that in...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The issue is not whether the Opposition is as concerned to urgently address this issue as the Government. That is not in doubt. The Taoiseach read out a long, prepared script about young girls being subjected to cross-examination. That is the very stipulation that is put into the legislation his Government enacted and he is reading back to us the criticisms we made of it at the time. We...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Ceann Comhairle deliberately abridged today's Order of Business to facilitate the Taoiseach on an important matter. This was the first issue——

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Chair should hear me out.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not complaining about the Taoiseach taking up important time to deal with an important issue.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The very first issue to be raised on the Order of Business on a matter of legislation that affects a number of women who are now——

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It will be too late.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That is why we are here.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has tried to exclude this question and will not answer it, and he waffles about having to spend a little time here.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Because he has to come here twice a week the Taoiseach thinks he is doing us some kind of honour.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Conor Lenihan should shut up. Women are being excluded by legislation that will come before this House tomorrow——

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It will be too late to deal with it tomorrow, meanwhile the Taoiseach lectures us about the amount of time he has been detained in the House.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach did not answer the question on the Bill.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Bill go ahead tomorrow?

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: That is completely unacceptable and when the women of Ireland hear that is the way the Taoiseach treats and discriminates against some of them, it is a disgrace. The part-time actor from "Killinascully" wants to speak. What does the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, want to say?

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What kind of all-party committee will it be? The Taoiseach did not answer the question.