Results 12,261-12,280 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am grateful to the Chair, but I did not ask him anything. I asked the Taoiseach whether he would urge co-operation with the committee by the three people who buried the legislation in 1987.

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The sum of €2 billion of taxpayer's money is involved. The three Ministers are in good health.

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Ought they not appear before the committee? I ask the Taoiseach, in terms of the waste of €2 billion of taxpayer's money, will he urge that they appear before the committee?

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Chair is using his position entirely inappropriately. I did not ask the Chair any question, I asked the Taoiseach——

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I withdraw the remark. I want an answer from the Taoiseach.

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I asked the Taoiseach a question, I did not ask the Chair anything. I asked the Taoiseach whether the Chair, Mr. Haughey and Mr. MacSharry would be invited to appear before the committee and I urged that they would comply.

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Why is this of no significance? A sum of €2 billion is involved.

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am entitled to an answer.

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Broughan does not know the answer.

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I have asked the Taoiseach a question and I respectfully submit that I am entitled to an answer from him.

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That is fine.

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We will not get into that.

Programmes for Government. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Department of Industry and Commerce.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach was asked what is the position on the terminal at Dublin Airport. Having listened to him I have no idea what is the answer. He seems to suggest that the present terminal has a capacity of 20 million passengers and since only 17 million passengers use it, there is plenty of space. If that is what he is saying, it is easily known that neither he nor the Tánaiste need to go...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is very difficult to draw any conclusion from what the Taoiseach has said. On the one hand there is no problem — the queues last 15 minutes. On the other hand the airport will soon have 60 million passengers so we need a third terminal before we get a second one. I have heard of leap-frogging a generation but never a terminal. We will have the third before we can agree on the second. We...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: There are impossible queues at peak time and there is the prospect of a summer of aggravation for people trying to get through Dublin Airport. It is a simple, straightforward infrastructural decision that the Government ought to have made years ago. When does the Taoiseach propose that we have a decision? Does he have any idea, especially if the Cabinet met on the matter this morning, what...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——but that is the great part of the road building that has gone on here. Given the global figure of projects estimated to cost €6 billion and ending up costing €18 billion, there is no more defence for it than for the superloo in Longford town, each flush of which costs €8.

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Last week, for the first time to my knowledge in the history of this House, the Taoiseach resorted to quoting from a partisan in camera document in respect of the matter I raised about the O'Hara family. The allegation in the document was found to be untrue in court but the Taoiseach repeated it in this House to the acute distress of the family concerned.

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach now take the opportunity to correct the record of the House? It is the least he owes to the family concerned.

Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is not enough to send the family a sneaky e-mail blaming me for the issue.