Results 81-100 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte
- Constitutional Amendments. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach when he expects to receive the report of the Oireachtas committee on the Constitution in regard to building land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2894/04]
- Constitutional Amendments. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: Can we anticipate a referendum regarding matters arising from the Abbeylara judgment? Does the Taoiseach accept that we cannot continue to inquire into every matter of public interest by relying on the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921? Is it appropriate that we put in place a cheaper, speedier, more efficient way of disposing of some of these matters? Is it not the case that the...
- Constitutional Amendments. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: I wish to clarify a point. If the people managed to struggle with Mr. de Valera's Constitution in 1937, does the Taoiseach not think that in 2007 they would be able to struggle with a new Mr. Ahern's Constitution? I presume the Taoiseach will still be here in 2007. I am not entirely clear on the purpose of bringing in report after report if they are not acted upon. Can I take it that what the...
- Constitutional Amendments. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach should not rule it out.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: One of the recommendations in the DIRT report was that dormant accounts in financial institutions ought to be transferred to the Exchequer to be administered for socially beneficial purposes. This recommendation was taken on board by the Minister for Finance in the 2001 Act when he provided for the establishment of an independent board that would disburse this money in accordance with stated...
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: That is an entirely disingenuous reply by the Taoiseach. He took me through a description of the process. We know what it is; the question is why the Minister felt it necessary to abrogate his legislation and promise amending legislation so he can get his hands on the money. It is blatantly disingenuous to imply that an applicant might rip-off the system by applying under six different...
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: It is a hell of a lot more than was dispersed under RAPID.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: It is â¬110 million.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: It is only â¬30 million because the Taoiseach says so.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: This is not for rebuilding Ballymun.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: Napoleon would never have got into the Dublin Port tunnel.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: Having changed his position half a dozen times on whether the introduction of electronic voting in the forthcoming elections could or could not be done by order, has the Taoiseach's Government discovered, at the 12th hour, that it requires primary legislation? When will such legislation be introduced? Will he assure the House that it will not be introduced before electronic voting in the...
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach told us that he would not introduce the legislation.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: Where did the Taoiseachââ
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach said he was right and Deputy Gilmore was wrong.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: My question was whether the Taoiseach will introduce primary legislation and, if so, when we will see it. Given the concerns to which the Taoiseach has now awoken and the absence of provision for the counting systems in the motion the Government has just published, the critical question is whether such legislation will apply for the forthcoming elections.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach addressed the electronic voting system, not the counting system.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: It is a well made one.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: As the Ceann Comhairle has ruled, I am entitled to ask the Taoiseach about promised legislation.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)
Pat Rabbitte: He has promised this legislation which does not in any way allay the most substantial fears expressed on this side of the House and by independent experts and academics outside it.