Results 12,761-12,780 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: It beggars belief.

Order of Business. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I refer the Taoiseach to two ministerial orders on today's Order Paper, SI 86 and SI 87. Basically, they seek to extend the existing framework for decommissioning purposes. As the Taoiseach will recall, this was provided for in the Decommissioning Act 1997, immediately after the Good Friday Agreement. The regulations were made and were intended to comply with the commitment in the agreement...

Order of Business. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Is that site on Harcourt Street?

Consultancy Contracts. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We are asking the Taoiseach for his response to the Quigley report. All of the matters to which we referred are well within the bounds of the Quigley report. I am asking the Taoiseach why he is glossing over the gravity of it. The Taoiseach and I both know that senior civil servants are very protective of their Ministers past and present. The fact that this is written in temperate language...

Consultancy Contracts. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach agree, therefore, that there is an urgent need to ensure that all aspects of the Quigley report are implemented?

Legislative Programme. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach his Department's legislative priorities for 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34264/04]

Legislative Programme. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The schedule of promised legislation has 86 Bills, none of which is from the Department of the Taoiseach. The pressure for legislation is therefore obviously less in that Department. The National Economic and Social Development Office Bill was published in April 2002, finished Second Stage on 18 December 2003 and we have not heard of it since. I know this could be because the Taoiseach does...

Legislative Programme. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Ceann Comhairle is in a corner this time. He should back down gracefully.

Legislative Programme. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: A Cheann Comhairle——

Consultancy Contracts. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach when he expects to receive the report of Mr. Dermot Quigley into the circumstances of the appointment of a person (details supplied) and related matters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34256/04]

Consultancy Contracts. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach agree with finding 4.2.1 of the Quigley report into the affair surrounding the Minister, Deputy Cullen? It states: ... there are risks in a Minister proposing a named person for a contract. Such a procedure may not least give rise to a perception of impropriety. Does the Taoiseach share the conclusions of Mr. Quigley, the report's author? In particular, does he agree that...

Consultancy Contracts. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank the Taoiseach for that reply but is it not the case that however restrained the language in the Quigley report, Ms Leech was sponsored in her public service career by the current Minister for Transport and that the fees commanded are commensurate with, if not better than, what would be commanded by the top senior partners in the most practised firms in this city? There is no precedent...

Consultancy Contracts. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That is a question, Sir. The Taoiseach may be aware of a precedent. Let me put it this way. Does the Taoiseach know of any other precedent where this level of fee can be commanded effectively on a permanent basis? In other words, is it not the case that the structure of these companies' charging arrangement is that the senior partner in the most prestigious firms may charge a figure...

Consultancy Contracts. (1 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach agree to Deputy O'Dowd's request? If there is litigation on this issue, as there might be, is it not the case that all these documents will be discovered to the court in any such action? Would it not be better for the Taoiseach to instruct that the papers be laid in the Library so Members could study them? I have listened to the Taoiseach's very benign interpretation of the...

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (24 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in regard to the direction issued by his predecessor to an authorised officer to cease his inquiries into three companies being carried out under section 19 of the Companies Act 1990, the authorised officer has completed his reports; if he has received these reports; if he has passed any relevant information to the...

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (24 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in regard to each of the inquiries being carried out by or on behalf of his Department; the projected date for the conclusion of each such investigation; the inquiries in respect of which reports have been referred to the DPP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6164/05]

Order of Business. (24 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I have raised in the House on a number of occasions the circumstances in which a constituent of mine, Dean Lyons, was wrongfully charged with the Grangegorman murders. I welcome the apology on behalf of the Garda Síochána. Is it the intention of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to make a statement to the House that is more explanatory than a straightforward apology? I...

Order of Business. (24 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister of State should be congratulated on his initiative.

Tribunals of Inquiry. (23 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the costs which accrued to his Department during 2004 in respect of tribunals of inquiry; the anticipated amount for 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3498/05]

Tribunals of Inquiry. (23 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Given the various issues that have arisen in recent years, such as the Army deafness claims and so on, I have comforted myself in the knowledge that it is a redistribution of wealth and can be justified on these grounds. I have greater difficulty applying that approach to my learned friends. It certainly is an extraordinary situation. Are there legal challenges, or High Court or Supreme Court...