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Crime Prevention (7 Oct 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: ...support among the Nationalist community for them than we would have thought. In terms of the identity and flags of convenience being used by these groups, do I understand that other than the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA as we have known them, the most deadly group at the moment is flying under the flag of Óglaigh na hÉireann which is essentially a collection of former Provo activists?...

Morris Tribunal: Statements (22 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ...contact with them was intended to be a key reform introduced following the Morris tribunal because part of the corruption exposed in the Donegal division involved two gardaí pretending they had an IRA informer who gave them information about bombs the gardaí themselves had planted. Does the Minister seriously think this should not be investigated? If there is anything at all to the...

Northern Ireland Issues: Statements (18 Oct 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ...itself flowed from a letter from the British Prime Minister, Mr. Blair to Mr. David Trimble, written and handed over on the margins of the Stormont talks. The letter promised that if there was no IRA decommissioning within six months of the Assembly going live, the rules would be changed to exclude Sinn Féin from ministerial office. The promise set out in that letter proved to be...

Public Order Offences: Statements. (28 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ...themselves off as republicans have little to offer other than a form sectarian bigotry. Indeed, when one scratches the surface of the principal republican organisations, ranging from the Provisional IRA to the Continuity IRA, one will find a significant underbelly of sectarianism that is counter to everything for which Wolfe Tone stood. In recent years and especially since the signing of...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Feb 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ...the Garda informant at the heart of the affair. Last week the PSNI made clear again that it still wished to interview this man, a Mr. Dixon, a car thief who stole cars on order for the Real IRA and its bombing campaign. According to The Sunday Times, the PSNI also placed his relationship with the Garda in an entirely different light by revealing that he had permitted gardaí to place bugs...

Irish Unification: Motion (Resumed). (3 Nov 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ...the North of the legacy of sectarianism and its bitter and corrosive divisions. Hence, talk of Irish unity before that first happens is absolute hogwash. I repeat my belief that Sinn Féin and the IRA have a genuine contribution to make to political progress on this island. However, that contribution involves not simply the delivering up of arms, seven years late, that should never have...

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ...generation ago a British Prime Minister could summon a lord chief justice and give him the right political steer before a judicial tribunal by saying: "Remember we're fighting a war over there". The IRA throughout its murderous 30-year campaign also insisted it was fighting a war. I never believed there was a war in Northern Ireland or justification for a war. Nor do I believe there was...

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the Government's views on the statement issued by the IRA on 28 July 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24373/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach his views on the prospects for political progress in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of the statement issued by the IRA on 28 July 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24374/05]

Northern Ireland: Statements. (28 Sep 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ...up drug-dealing, racketeering, intimidation and murder, and destroy their guns." In that respect, the onus falls now on those leaders of Unionism who have been so quick to question the validity of IRA decommissioning but so slow to move loyalist paramilitaries towards the same end. If parties such as the DUP are so eager to take the votes of working class Protestants and to express the...

Northern Ireland: Statements. (28 Sep 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ..., we need a real effort on all sides to tackle the sectarian divisions that have increased rather than diminished since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. I repeat that Sinn Féin and the IRA have a genuine contribution to make to political progress on this island. However, that contribution involves not just the seven-years-late delivery of arms that should never have been acquired or...

Northern Ireland: Statements. (28 Sep 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ...number of victims in that conflict were victims of the illegal body whose loss of arms we are now to celebrate, or that the greater number of victims came from within its own community, which the IRA claimed to defend. I was horrified to be told today that a television journalist had reported — if he did, I did not see it — that Gerry Adams had been greeted like Mahatma Gandhi at the...

Northern Ireland Issues. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Given that it is now three months since Mr. Gerry Adams made his statement to the IRA, has the Government any factual information on when a definitive response from the IRA can be expected? Given that the impact is that everything else is on hold awaiting the IRA's response, does the Taoiseach acknowledge how frustrating this is for the democratic parties which cannot proceed with normal...

Northern Ireland Issues. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ...democratically elected Governments conferring approval on a particular version of history. In the sectarian slaughter that we have witnessed over the last 30 years, more people were killed by the IRA than by the Black and Tans. It is a matter of concern to a great many citizens that we should seek to confer some type of approval or be complicit in the re-writing of history. Has the...

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Has the Government any information which the Taoiseach can give to the House on the involvement of the IRA in the money laundering activities that were the subject of much Garda activity and publicity last February? Will the Taoiseach refer back to the business of secret meetings with Mr. Adams? Does he accept there is a thin line as to whether these meetings were secret or private? Does he...

Northern Ireland Issues. (20 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ...5: To ask the Taoiseach his assessment of the implications for the Northern Ireland peace process of the discovery by the Garda of a major money laundering operation believed to have involved the IRA. [6768/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (20 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach his assessment of the implications for the Northern Ireland peace process of the reported involvement of members of the IRA in the murder of Mr. Robert McCartney in the Short Strand area of Belfast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6769/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (20 Apr 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach said he did not expect within the next day or so a definitive response from the IRA to the speech by the president of Sinn Féin, Mr. Gerry Adams. Putting the most benign construction on the speech, will the Taoiseach indicate what constitutes a reasonable time to wait for a response? Does the Taoiseach agree that the issue is not whether Sinn Féin should break away from the...

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion. (23 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ...procure documents and compel witnesses, and into the extremely serious possibility that those murders were facilitated by collusion between some members of the Garda Síochána and the Provisional IRA. As the Minister stated, it is particularly important that anyone who has evidence to give should come forward. The murders of the two policemen in 1989 were particularly brutal crimes,...

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ...to Sinn Féin. Unless there is a statement from the leadership of the republican movement, which repudiates this statement and its implications and which takes a step towards the disbandment of the IRA, I cannot see how the Taoiseach can reasonably believe the Unionist population will respond to any initiatives in this regard? On the second matter, does the Taoiseach intend to be present...