Results 11,561-11,580 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Leaders' Questions. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The first thing the House should do is record its appreciation to Mr. Justice Murphy and his colleagues on what appears to be an insightful and coherent report on a terrible chapter in our history, and record its appreciation of the immensely courageous work of people such as Colm O'Gorman and his colleagues in One in Four who lobbied for this inquiry and did so much work to assist it. Most...

Leaders' Questions. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I agree with the Taoiseach's remarks about Bishop Walsh, who seems to have transformed the climate in Ferns. Would the Taoiseach confer the authority of his office on a committee of the House, comprising the Oireachtas Joint Committees on Health and Children and Education and Science, to hold the joint hearings to which I referred on this report? The Taoiseach says that the commitments given...

Leaders' Questions. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: If we look at Monageer, for example, it was a horror.

Order of Business. (25 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: On the matter of the refurbishment of the defamation law, do I take from what the Taoiseach has said that the Government has decided the press council will be statutory?

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí who are on sick leave; the length of time each has been absent from work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29747/05]

Written Answers — Garda Disciplinary Proceedings: Garda Disciplinary Proceedings (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí who are suspended from the force; the length of suspension in each case; if they will receive their full salary for the duration of the suspension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29746/05]

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The House is united in concurring with the sentiments expressed by Deputy Kenny and the Minister for the early and safe release of Mr. Rory Carroll and in expressing our solidarity with his family at this time. Recently the Minister told my colleague, Deputy Burton, that the cost of CMOD in his Department is €7.5 million and that there are 96 people employed in it to supervise, amongst...

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——to expect that they might have——

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——put a stop to the PPARS debacle——

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——before it got to the stage——

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——of wasting taxpayers money as it does?

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: A Cheann Comhairle, I am submitting the question now. I am asking the Minister if it is not reasonable to think——

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——that such a unit might have intervened——

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——before €160 million was clocked up.

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: A Cheann Comhairle, for as long as I have been in the House leaders have had the opportunity on the Order of Business to raise an issue.

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: There are no leaders' questions today.

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: There are no leaders' questions today.

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: There are no leader's questions today.

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: This is not Tuesday or Wednesday; this is Thursday.

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: This is Thursday. I am asking——