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Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: ...is relatively under-explored and its petroleum potential is largely unproven, particularly when compared with other petroleum regions such as Norway and the United Kingdom. It is comparing apples with oranges. Deputy Ferris remarked that he detects a certain excitement around at the moment. It certainly is true that more of the licences from the last licence round have been converted...

Other Questions: Petroleum and Gas Exploration (11 Jun 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: ...to attract companies that can carry out such work. For that reason, we have to pitch the fiscal regime broadly in line with the situation in similar member states. There is no point in comparing apples with oranges. There is no comparison between this country and Norway, which has a particularly different geological structure and a hit rate of approximately one in four. Since the early...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Mobile Telephony (11 Oct 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: ...major producers of mobile phones agreed in June 2009 in a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) to harmonise chargers for data-enabled mobile phones sold in the EU.The signatories of the MOU included Apple, Emblaze Mobile, Huawei Technologies, LGE, Motorola Mobility, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, Research In Motion (RIM), Samsung, Sony Ericsson, TCT Mobile (ALCATEL mobile phones),...

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: ...gas discoveries and asked whether I read the relevant SIPTU document. I have read that report and it is an interesting contribution to the debate. However, it is important that we avoid comparing apples and oranges. It is entirely incorrect to claim we are at the bottom of the league in terms of return. A person known to all Members has written several comparisons between Ireland and...

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: ...on stamp duty and how it came to play such a significant role in the property transactions which took place here over the past 15 years in particular. It is not quite true to say nobody upset the apple cart as I remember a former colleague of the Minister for Health and Children famously announcing that his party had decided to abolish stamp duty. The quote is indelibly framed in my mind...

Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ...but it was to effect that they do not do it for nothing. I am prepared to go along with that too. Some woeful weaknesses have been shown up in the system. I am not just referring to the few bad apples in the barrel, and they have been fairly dramatic by any standards. If one owes the bank €2,000, one is in trouble but if one owes the bank €2 million, one is in a stronger position....

Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ...to contemplate in public the possibility that all was not well within the force. When illegal activities, malpractice or even corruption were exposed, reference was made repeatedly to the "rotten apple" while the warning in the phrase coined by Benjamin Franklin was ignored. Just one rotten apple will spoil its companion and, eventually, the whole barrel. The difference between the...

European Council Meetings: Statements. (30 Mar 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: ...out in the original Lisbon agenda. They include more growth, improved competitiveness, reduced unemployment, a cleaner environment and so on. These are, to use an Americanism, like motherhood and apple pie. While they are highly laudable, one wonders, given the differences in the politics of member states and governments, the diversity of national and regional economies and the complex...