Results 10,121-10,140 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach took up his entire timeââ
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: It makes a farce of Question Time if we do not get answers.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: What kind of all-party committee will it be? That is disrespectful to the House.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: We are entitled to answers and we did not get them.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I am not taking Deputy Sargent's time. We are entitled to answers.
- Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of the recent discussions on a new social partnership agreement. [23298/06]
- Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: As the Taoiseach well knows, successive agreements traded moderate pay increases against tax reductions, some of them not insignificant, over the years. On a number of occasions the Taoiseach said that the tax-cutting agenda in question has run its course, with that era over. Is that still his view?
- Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?
- Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I make common cause with the Taoiseach on this issue. If he has any difficulty in the autumn putting through a budget that gives some relief to people on very low incomes, we will be happy to support him. However, his partners in Government have indicated that they wish to cut the top rate of tax for high earners. I am glad to hear the Taoiseach make a commitment that any improvements in the...
- Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: My question concerns remarks the Taoiseach made on the radio about benchmarking. Following the recommendation by a number of public sector unions that the new social contract not be agreed, the Taoiseach appeared to make plain that if the contract fell through, the entire benchmarking process would fall through. Is my understanding correct?
- Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Will benchmarking continue, irrespective of whether the contract falls through?
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: This is not a satisfactory way to do our business. Of 417 amendments, 55 have been dealt with so far. On Committee Stage, there were more than 210 pages of amendments. The Bill bears no similarity to the legislation initially introduced. My party is alarmed by the information given by the Taoiseach this morning. Given that this is the only criminal justice legislation before the House and we...
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Despite its gravity, I do not see any other way in which to address the matter. The Bill is the only criminal justice legislation before the House.
- Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: If 42 people have been charged but are awaiting a decision of the courts under section 1 of the 1935 Act, in how many instances have the charges been withdrawn?
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: In some of this morning's newspapers, the Government has floated the notion of a constitutional referendum on the issue of child rape. Can the Taoiseach confirm that it is the Government's intention to hold such a referendum? Will the proposed amendment differ from the suggestion made after the recent crisis by the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, that the Constitution would be amended to...
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: It is admitted that the latter legislation is deeply flawed. I would like to ask the Taoiseach about the proposal to introduce a constitutional amendment and about the all-party committee that will examine these matters on the basis of terms of reference which are the subject of a large measure of agreement on all sides of the House. We do not understand how the issues of child rape and the...
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach claimed he did not want to go back over the events and then he did just that. He knows well the events are not just disputed by me but by persons outside of the House. He also knows the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform had possession of this information going back to 2002. I am not interested in tracing the history of it. What happened, happened and we are looking...
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I know a Cheann Comhairle. You let the Taoiseach go on for about ten minutes. Do you have to interrupt me in mid-sentence?
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: This is a matter of parliamentary accountability. Ideally I would like the matter to be examined by parliamentary committee. However, the Government has steadfastly refused to refurbish the law since the Abbeylara judgment, which was a narrow enough area. Inquiry by parliamentary committee has worked effectively in the past but that option is now unavailable until the Government refurbishes...
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The Government introduced the law that could allow such a scenario.