Results 81-100 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Excuse me Deputy Fleming. The figures presented by Mr. McCarthy are not quite in keeping with the belly-aching that one hears from the representatives of the SME sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Fleming has traced the area I am interested in but I have one question. If the witness was on RTE he would be asked, “What can go wrong?” That is usually their opening gambit. I understand that Mr. McCarthy has dealt with the down-side. He does not deal with the question of oil. Just as we had almost no notice of the fact that oil collapsed from €100 a barrel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Why would the relative flatlining in August have occurred?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Microloan Scheme (6 Oct 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection for an update on the new personal microcredit scheme currently being developed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34126/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (6 Oct 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 528. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the 12 month waiting list for speech, language and occupational therapy services in Dublin south west; his views on whether this situation is likely to improve at an early date, specifically for a child (details supplied) who has been diagnosed with autism; the measures the Health Service Executive is implementing to reduce waiting times...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy McDonald has made a great deal more progress than I in grasping the changes contemplated here. I can understand the operation of performance indicators and outputs in the area of flood risk management. If I am sitting in my living room watching Barcelona and the water comes up over the television, it is not a great output. How, in the area of the estates portfolio, can the OPW apply...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Reverting to Deputy Fleming's original question, is responsibility not disparate? The OPW is responsible for the upkeep of Leinster House, but the Oireachtas commission determines policy on what must be done and the OPW is brought in as the contractor. Strictly speaking, it is not a contractor, but it performs the work. Is the OPW's control over that not limited? Consider a subject we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I understand. Consider the question Deputy McDonald mentioned about savings on the rent roll and so on that arose from the contraction during the recession. The problem is that, as a member of this committee, I am in no position to offer an opinion on them. I do not know how many State buildings are only partially occupied. I do not know whether a future Chairman of this committee will,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Why does Ms McGrath exclude the OPW's internal processes from the application of the New Zealand principles? I understood her to say "except the internal processes", and that for the OPW to seek to measure them-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: No, I understand. I have a question on the heritage side of the portfolio. If the OPW approached the Oireachtas or the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with a requirement for €5 million to patch up any damage done to Skellig Michael - I am not implying that any will be done; I am not on that side of the argument - how will we measure that request? Is it down to the number...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Digital Hub Project (29 Sep 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 608. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the strategic partnership between the Digital Hub Development Agency and Knightsbridge Student Housing Limited will complete the construction of student accommodation at the Digital Hub campus; the number of units that will be provided; when they are expected to be tenanted; and if he will make a statement on the...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: The context of this first Fennelly report is the controversies that engulfed the Garda Síochána and about which several Members of the House spent months jumping up and down criticising the former Garda Commissioner. The same Members now cry a river of crocodile tears about the manner of the former Commissioner's retirement. The interim report of the Fennelly commission is...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Martin thinks the then Garda Commissioner, having announced his retirement, should have been allowed to stay in office for three months. Is this not what happened when Mr. Bertie Ahern stayed on as Taoiseach for months after announcing his departure while the country went down the tubes? I do not recall Fianna Fáil observing any courtesies when the then Minister, Mr. Gerry...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I await with interest information on who authorised the recordings in Garda stations - if they were authorised. In the interim, I have confidence in the Taoiseach, Attorney General and Government and nothing Deputy Martin, the ghost of bailouts past, had to say today changes my opinion.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, you have directed that I attend before the inquiry to give evidence on three specified themes in the context of my role as leader of the Labour Party from 2002 to 2007. I have made a written submission, as directed. I'm bound to say, Chairman, at the outset that it is my view that whoever and whatever was responsible for the banking...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I think it characterises the nature of adversarial politics. That's the normal democratic impulse. The implication, I think, behind your question, Deputy, is that before 7 o'clock on the fateful morning that the Labour Party somehow had known that this was going to happen.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: We didn't know. We didn't know. You know, questioning my colleague about whether we had a refined alternative is ridiculous. The thing was sprung on us.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: The thing was sprung on us, shock and awe. It was the most extraordinary story in my lifetime that I woke up to that morning. So, no, we didn't have a refined alternative. We had to, there and then, react to the proposals being brought forward and all I can say to you is that I think - and it's very easy be wise in hindsight - I think that if I had been walking through the streets of...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Yes, that's right. Right up to ... and you will ... I think we're agreed, the rot had started by 2003 and, you know, price of houses had risen by three times that time. So from thereon in, we pursued the property issue consistently and by all methods open to us.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I knew broadly the type of client that Anglo Irish had. I didn't know it was as clustered as the figures subsequently bore out but I knew the type of client it had, I knew of the complaints of other banks that some of their high net worth individuals and corporates were complaining that they weren't getting a similar yield to what Anglo Irish was providing. But I didn't know it was...