Results 12,361-12,380 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I raise the issue of the Work Permits Bill. Would the Government be prepared to facilitate an employment regulation order in respect of people in domestic service? This is an especially acute area of exploitation of non-national workers and others. An employment regulation order is the most appropriate way to address the issue, as trade union organisation in domestic service is not really...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I make no apology for returning to the crisis in accident and emergency units, especially given the inadequacy of the Taoiseach's response yesterday. Surely the Taoiseach appreciates that for an elderly woman retained five days and five nights on a trolley in the Mater Hospital it is very little comfort when he rhymes off to the House his version of statistics about hospitals where he claims...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: What will the Taoiseach do in response to the INO request for his intervention, given what it calls a national emergency in accident and emergency departments in several hospitals up and down the country, details of which I am sure the Taoiseach has received, as I have, in my e-mail traffic since I raised this matter yesterday?

Leaders' Questions. (27 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not think the Taoiseach appreciates the number of people who are suffering in distress and being treated in very undignified circumstances and the number of staff working in impossible circumstances. No category of staff other than frontline nurses and doctors would give the type of commitment that is being given in the conditions in some of these hospitals. The Taoiseach talks about...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Where is the capital programme and where are the step-down beds? Where is the ten-point plan announced by the Tánaiste in terms of its efficacy in these circumstances? The Government parties have been in office for eight years but people are still expected to work in circumstances akin to Third World hospital care facilities. People in pain are kept overnight on trolleys in many hospitals...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position of discussions with the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Revenue Commissioners regarding the introduction of a new higher education grants scheme; the steps being taken to bring these discussions to a conclusion; when she expects that the new system will be in place; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Children Act: Children Act (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the sections of the Children Act 2001 for which her Department has responsibility and which have been brought into operation; the sections that have yet to be brought into operation; if a timetable has been set for the implementation of the remaining sections; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13022/05]

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 279: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the serious impact on the local economy of the announcement by a company (details supplied) of the decision to close its call centre with the loss of 100 jobs; if he plans to have discussions with the company on the possibility of saving the jobs; if this is not possible, the steps he...

Written Answers — Benchmarking Awards: Benchmarking Awards (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 320: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason general operatives employed by one of the North-South implementation bodies (details supplied) are awaiting benchmarking payments since 2001; the reason for this delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13261/05]

Written Answers — Live Exports: Live Exports (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 326: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the procedures adopted in the selection of a shipping business in 1997 to receive financial assistance from her Department for the provision of a substitute ferry service to carry live cattle to the European continent; the amount of such assistance provided and the conditions attaching to the grant; the date on which the decision was...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 425: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the source of funding for the management and maintenance of joint school community sports halls as provided for under the schools building programme; the funding designated for the joint school and community usage of the sports hall under construction at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on...

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the Taoiseach seen the appeal from the INO for him to declare a national emergency because of the crisis in accident and emergency wards throughout the country? Does he intend to respond to this request made in extremis by the INO? It is manifest that the Taoiseach's Minister for Health and Children does not have the competence to deal with the crisis. Many accident and emergency wards...

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: In the absence of Máire Geoghan-Quinn, there is nobody to slap him down and send him back to the Curragh.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Nobody seems to be capable of controlling the crisis in accident and emergency units. The INO has pleaded for the Taoiseach to intervene.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: For the past eight years the Government has been promising that something might work. In spite of the ten-point initiative, announced with great fanfare by the Tánaiste and greeted by the media, which alluded to her unparalleled courage in taking on this problem, nothing has changed. The problem ought to be considerably less acute at this time of the year than it is. Not even the publication...

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: There were 249 people.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I would not rely too heavily on the counting in that Department.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We know that. The problem has existed for five or six years.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It is working night and day.

Order of Business. (26 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Following the Taoiseach's admission last week that he had a substantive brief and did not read it on a matter that has exposed the taxpayer to €2 billion, does he still have confidence in the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment?