Results 221-240 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Could Mr. Bell spell out the approach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Mr. Bell said that he exercised the veto in only five cases in terms of the personal insolvency arrangements. Do the answers he supplied state the total number of cases that came before him?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Is it 100 in total?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Is Mr. Brown surprised at that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: On the solution being offered to the 2,000 non-engagers, how severe is the requirement to be eligible for social housing? Is there much room for objective judgment? A person resident in a house such as Gorse Hill might or might not automatically be on the social housing list. If the bank judges a person to be a significant earner, how severe is the assessment? Could the bank use the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the bank have non-engagers above the threshold?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Mr. Brown said the bank did not select the 2,000, but that they have selected themselves. While I understand the point, the bank selected the 2,000. I am trying to establish that the bank will do "what it says on the tin". The bank selected them on the basis that the threshold of earnings would seem to suggest that in most local authorities they would be eligible for housing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I have two quick questions. Many people would be surprised that the bank wrote down some €461 million in mortgage debt in 2014. That was significantly ramped up by comparison with the two previous years. Does this mean the delegates have in their heads the likely figure for 2015? If the rate of difficulty is increasing, does it mean the figure for 2015 will be at least the same or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Could I tempt Mr. O'Connor to say whether he believes the figure for 2015 will be as high or higher than that for 2014?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: My second question is on privatisation. The delegates may tell me it is a matter for the Minister rather than the bank but I presume they have views. Given the healthier position of the State's finances and that there is no great pressure to move to dispose of the first tranche in 2015, do the delegates have a view, in the context of the commercial interest and restoration of the bank so it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Is Mr. Duffy still of the view that the State's investment can be recouped?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary teachers who have been absent from work as a result of an assault, for each of the past four years; the number, each year, who have availed of assault leave; the records that are maintained by her Department regarding assaults and assault leave; if she will confirm that teachers who are obliged to take leave following an...

Public Electronic Communications Networks (Improper Use) Bill 2015: First Stage (16 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for certain offences in connection with the improper use of public electronic communications networks; and to provide for related matters.I thank the Ceann Comhairle for permitting me to introduce this Bill. It will make it an offence for a person to send or cause to be sent by means of public electronic...

Public Electronic Communications Networks (Improper Use) Bill 2015: First Stage (16 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (1 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I have one question which may not, however, be within the Minister's remit. Does he have any information, in so far as it relates to the Oireachtas, as to whether there has been increased usage of the Act since it was enhanced? If so, has it been for the purposes of establishing complex and substantive policy issues, or what has been the nature of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (1 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister might be kind enough not to interrupt Deputy McDonald, and to send the committee a note on the question I raised. I am curious to know the answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Did I misunderstand Mr. O'Dwyer or is he saying that the benefit of CMU really will not impact very widely on the Irish SME sector because of the typical size, formation and ownership of the typical Irish SME and that a good deal of this is probably academic from their point of view? In respect of the regulatory environment, are Mr. Lardner's points about institutional funds specifically...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (31 Mar 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 476. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Regorafenib Stivarga will be made available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13027/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (31 Mar 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 is eligible for a grant to purchase a laptop to help with college examination studies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12677/15]

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Mar 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: The manner in which the far left and Sinn Féin are exploiting the austerity fatigue of ordinary people on the water issue is disgraceful and contrary to the public interest. The fact that, for over a year now, their humbug and hypocrisy is being stimulated by the public service broadcaster requires examination. Mischief-making for the Government of the day is a time-honoured indulgence...