Results 12,701-12,720 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

National Security Committee. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We complain about several matters regarding which the Chair cannot provide redress and therefore the Chair should permit the Taoiseach to reply on the matters regarding which we do not complain.

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach when he expects to receive reports from Mr. Justice Barron on the outstanding areas within his remit; the action he has taken arising from the reports already submitted by Mr. Justice Barron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3503/05]

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: When will Mr. Justice Barron complete his remit and finalise his reports? The Garda Commissioner gave a commitment to the Oireachtas committee when it dealt with this matter that he would assist the families in terms of taking them through the investigation files of the victims in this State. Has a Garda officer been appointed for that purpose? Is the Taoiseach aware that a multi-million...

Nuclear Weapons Programme. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the Irish and European position towards the existing situation which pertains in North Korea with regard to the threat of nuclear weapons being developed in that country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7734/05]

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste first told us we would have the report on 1 March. Subsequently, she announced she would take the report last Friday and it would be brought to Government and published today. Will the Taoiseach name one other Parliament in the European Union where on a matter in which the taxpayer is exposed for somewhere between €500 million and €2 billion, depending on which account one...

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: If the Taoiseach is saying the report is being published in this manner to attract the privilege that attaches to a report being laid before the Houses, he has the same privilege now. He has an army of advisers who write notes for him on every conceivable thing. Why does he not have a note indicating the political fallout of exposing the taxpayer to a fine of what we are told will be of the...

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The same Minister, Deputy Martin, must know that as early as January 2001 the Ombudsman, when raising alarm bells about an aspect of this matter, said "accountability should apply to those actions of which the Minister was aware or of which the Minister as head of the Department could reasonably be expected to have been aware or to have made himself or herself aware". The Minister, Deputy...

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Is the Taoiseach committing to a debate tomorrow or on Thursday before he escapes from this House for five weeks? I ask the Ceann Comhairle to exercise his authority to require the Taoiseach to say clearly whether we will have that debate tomorrow——

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: You could have fooled me, Sir.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: If the Chair has no responsibility in this matter, will the Taoiseach indicate whether he will commit to a debate either tomorrow or the next day before he goes missing for five weeks?

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: So what?

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will we have a debate on it before the Taoiseach escapes on Thursday?

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will we have the debate on Thursday?

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Yes, Sir, I am being orderly——

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am entitled to an answer. Will we have a debate on Thursday?

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I do want a debate.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Are we going to have a debate?

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is evading the question.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will we have a debate on Thursday?

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I will read it if the Taoiseach gives it to me.