Results 12,081-12,100 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Leaders' Questions. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach clarify the position regarding public patients sent to the Leas Cross nursing home and, consequently, subsidised by the State? I understand that patients have been transferred from St. Ita's to this facility. What category of patients was involved in that transfer? Is the State subsidising those patients and were they included in the tender? Various Ministers are on the...

Leaders' Questions. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister of State, Deputy Seán Power has put short-term measures in place today, namely, the nursing home will operate under new management and professional staff will be put in place. Are any other steps being taken? What, for example, is the purpose of calling in the Garda Síochána and what kind of inquiry is it undertaking? Does the Taoiseach accept that not only were patients...

Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Legislation for the governance of charities has been in preparation for approximately ten years. Will the Taoiseach tell us when this Bill will come before the House?

Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We are very close.

Decentralisation Programme. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff within his Department who have applied for transfer to locations outside of Dublin under the Government's decentralisation programme; the impact, if any, this will have on his Department; if there are plans to decentralise any part of his Department or any agency under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...

Decentralisation Programme. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the staff be replaced in the Department of the Taoiseach or will staff be transferred from other areas of the Civil Service? Has a new chairman of the implementation committee been appointed? If so, who? To whom will he or she report? For example, will he or she report to a cross-departmental committee or a Minister? What reporting arrangements apply to the implementation committee?

Decentralisation Programme. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: What mix of grades comprises the 42 people? Are people with skills particular to the Department of the Taoiseach being lost? Professional grades are experiencing difficulties, being told to either move "or else". I do not know how people with such technical or professional skills can be accommodated elsewhere in the Civil Service.

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on Aer Lingus last met and when the next meeting is due. [16046/05]

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Could the Chair tell me how Deputy Higgins's question is statistical?

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: No, it does not.

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The question asks when the Cabinet sub-committee last met.

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: This has nothing to do with matters like export figures or the CSO. Whatever it is, it is not a statistical question.

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: One could say that about any question, that it is looking for one specific answer.

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is a stratagem used by Deputy Higgins to ask a question on the Cabinet sub-committee on Aer Lingus and it most emphatically is not a statistical question.

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It may well pose a problem for the Chair.

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am merely rising on the narrow point that whatever it is, it is not a statistical question.

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am sure I will have the Chair's support in asking a statistical question. When was it decided to sell a majority stake in Aer Lingus?

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I asked for a date, a Cheann Comhairle. You said a date is a statistical matter.

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach has told us that the Cabinet sub-committee last met on 19 December. I am asking if the decision was taken by then or if it was taken subsequently. When was the decision taken?

Air Services. (31 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle, are you telling the House that when the Taoiseach tells us that this decision was taken in Cabinet — the Government acting qua government — we may not ask the Head of Government about the decision in question?