Results 10,521-10,540 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——or might concede, or was working on conceding. Is it established from what the Taoiseach said that the Government has decided that this scheme cannot be extended to include Irish people returning from British cities?

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What does the Chair mean by saying it does not arise?

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It might not arise for the Ceann Comhairle. Certainly while he is in his current position, it does not arise for him, but it arises for very many of his contemporaries who are coming back from Britain.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach knows that——

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Not too many Dutch-Irish people will come back here to avail of the free travel scheme.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Government thinks it can extend it to the 40,000 pensioners in question.

Northern Ireland Issues. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the action he intends to take arising from the report of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights into the death of Mr. Séamus Ludlow; if it is intended to act on the committee's recommendation that a commission of inquiry be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14449/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach when it is intended to publish the outstanding report received from Mr. Justice Barron into certain incidents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14450/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: With all due respect to the Ceann Comhairle, I know he is trying to accommodate me but I would prefer if answers to individual questions were given to the Deputy at the time they are asked. It is difficult enough to cope with the wiles and experience of the Taoiseach——

Northern Ireland Issues. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——without the Ceann Comhairle lumping everything in together.

Northern Ireland Issues. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I know the Ceann Comhairle's motivation is the best but if time permits I would prefer to be allowed ask the question myself.

Leaders' Questions. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The ugliest and most grotesque crime of all was committed in Ballymena over the weekend. I am sure all sides of the House agree with me in deploring the grotesque killing. On behalf of the Labour Party I extend our condolence to the family of Michael McIlveen. Does this killing not highlight the urgency of all sides of the community proposing their confidence in and expressing their support...

Leaders' Questions. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I never cease to be amazed at the interviews the Taoiseach reads and the ones he never notices. What he has just said cannot be reconciled with what the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dermot Ahern, said. Presumably the Taoiseach is not saying that powers for policing and justice can be transferred to Northern Ireland before the executive is reinstated. The Taoiseach said clearly after...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (4 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 64: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has satisfied himself that the Government effort to date in relation to the provision of affordable, social and voluntary housing is acceptable; the steps he is taking to increase the output of housing in all these sectors, particularly in the case of affordable housing which has seen particularly slow...

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 111: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to review the decision whereby companies producing environmentally-friendly cement, or green cement, are to be excluded from the emissions trading scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16459/06]

Order of Business. (4 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: In matters not pertaining to security, does the Government intend to have the Garda Síochána come under the remit of the Act?

Order of Business. (4 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It is almost six years since the shooting of John Carty at Abbeylara. I have raised the Barr report hearings, which finished in 2004, on several occasions in this House, and I have been told, as per the latest replies from the Taoiseach, that the report would be published in March. Can the Tánaiste say why that report has not been published and if there is a difficulty with it? I refer her...

Order of Business. (4 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The flexibility of the Chair never ceases to amaze me.

Order of Business. (4 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Rather than spending time with the Fianna Fáil backbenchers, does the Tánaiste not think she would be better spending some time with the nurses at their annual conference?

Order of Business. (4 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: She can hear the complaints from the backbenchers about the health services at any time.