Results 13,061-13,080 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: If the Taoiseach cannot give a commitment that he will roster No. 18 for discussion here, I oppose its being taken now without debate. This concerns the ring-fencing of betting tax for the horse and greyhound racing industry, although the tax was reduced from 5% to 2% in 2002. The result is that we have been paying out €56 million each year since then and the Taoiseach intends to provide an...

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not debating the content. I am explaining why I am opposing the taking of it without debate. It is a matter of the most profound significance. It is virtually the only earmarked tax in the country and we are pouring out hundreds of millions to support this industry, not from betting tax, as was intended, but from the Exchequer at a time when 101,000 people are losing their entitlement to...

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Committee of Public Accounts established that there are 11,000 and not 25,000 people involved in the industry.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: When will the Bill to give effect to the referendum on citizenship be brought before the House?

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Will it come before the House as a matter of priority?

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department, broken down by grade, who have applied to the central applications facility for transfer to locations outside Dublin under the Government's decentralisation proposals; the likely impact of these transfers on his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21339/04]

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the Taoiseach's Department, as a consequence of the programme generally, taken account of the expert evidence given to the Select Committee on Finance and the Public Service to the effect that this was not a decentralisation programme but is about the dispersal of civil servants, that it has nothing to do with decentralisation which involves devolution of real power? Is he now resiling...

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach agree that Dr. Ed Walsh and Professor Bannon will not take kindly to being described as gombeen men and old-fashioned thinkers?

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not sure there are too many assistant secretaries who want to get out of Dublin to develop their careers. Dr. Walsh and Professor Bannon are experts on the subject and that is the testimony they gave to the committee. It cannot be dismissed with a wave of the hand and a remark about gombeen men because whatever else one might think about Dr. Walsh and Professor Bannon who have spent a...

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach is not accustomed to getting help from the Minister for Finance who used to stay in his office.

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister for Finance should let the Taoiseach answer for himself.

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I am glad that Deputy Cowen is back. I missed him.

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I thought the staff in Iveagh House had finessed Deputy Cowen a bit but they obviously have not. When the Taoiseach says there is no departure from the programme as announced is he sticking to the 2007 date? Is he saying there has been no quantification of the cost in his Department of the implications of dispersing civil servants in eight other Departments to 53 locations? Has that aspect...

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: He came from America, not from Dublin.

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (17 Jun 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 13: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number of new jobs announced during 2003 from new investments or expansion of IDA backed plants; the expected level of announcements during 2004; and the steps being taken to promote job creation. [18085/04]

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not anti-regions at all. The regions were not too kind to Deputy Treacy when he gave it a whirl five years ago. The Tánaiste said lethargy and inability to make hard decisions is the reason for paralysis in Government. Does she not accept that part of the reason for such disenchantment with the Government is the manner in which it treats and diminishes this House at every turn? If she...

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Labour Party has done everything it can to push through reforms. It has published an 80 page document on it. It is the Government that will not engage.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: To publish and pass it?

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Is that not a good example of the kind of proposals that have been put forward so many times this year? A major Bill such as this is brought forward but turns out to be not what was promised. The Tánaiste is not only requiring people to make Second Stage speeches on this Bill today but to push it through the House. That is simply not acceptable and it is part of the contempt to which I...

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: We will deal with Carrickmines.