Results 10,301-10,320 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: A sunset clause should be agreed to or it will be a lawyer's paradise. There are several anomalies in the legislation, which the Minister himself knows. It was foisted on the Government and it would be wise to put in a sunset clause and let us come back to the matter.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: That is correct.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I ask the permission of the House to share time with Deputy Howlin.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I agree with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on one issue, namely, his view that the adversarial system in this Chamber is an important dimension of our democratic system, allowing Deputies to probe matters of public interest, scrutinise legislation and hold the Government to account. There are rare occasions when behind the robust adversarial exchanges there is a wish on...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The public wants to know if we can reassure it about the protection of their children from the vile degradations of sexual predators. That was the only issue. There is an important subsidiary issue, which is the position of victims. Victims and their families have received little attention in this debate. There have been vague promises of counselling but one hears mothers of such victims...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: He brought in legislation that was made up on the hoof. As Deputy Kenny said, the section 5 anomaly was drafted on the back of a piece of paper in the Cabinet ante-room by Fianna Fáil. It was quite unbelievable to seeââ
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: It is nothing of the kind.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister invited Deputies Howlin and Jim O'Keeffe to discussions and arranged to meet them again. He went into the Seanad in the interim to tell that House that a broad agreement had been reached. He changed his mind three or four times yesterday. He criticised the House for not noting the two omissions that occurred to him last night, even though we did not see the Bill until today.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: You are the man who comes into this Houseââ
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: ââwith the lawyers' tactic of building up a straw man and then proceeding to knock it down.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Who made the suggestionââ
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Who made the suggestion to the Minister, which he claims to have so firmly resisted, that he should release the seven prisoners who are properly in jail? Nobody in this House suggested it to him. His tactic is to build up a case before proceeding to knock down a case that never existed.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: This has been a shameful performance by the Government.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister for Finance even resorted to condemning the Supreme Court.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach came inââ
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: ââthis morning like a casual bystander and came within an ace of making the same point.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I have very limited time before I hand over to my colleague, Deputy Howlin.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: I wish we had longer.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: What happened gender neutrality?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Pat Rabbitte: Who put that suggestion to the Minister?