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Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)

Katherine Zappone: ...lone parents cannot access the supports are available to job seekers on the live register? In that case, how will they benefit from the fund? The Minister for Public Enterprise and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, has set out to a limited degree that the fund is primarily for the long-term unemployed. Will lone parents benefit from it and, if not, will measures be forthcoming to assist...

Seanad: Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2011)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...of a property tax next year. Accordingly, the household charge will be applied next year as an interim measure. As announced on Monday by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, the Exchequer contribution to the local government fund will cease this year and will be replaced by the proceeds of the household charge in 2012. As such, it is imperative that...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Dec 2011)

Brian Hayes: ..., the crisis in our public finances has continued. We all heard the Taoiseach's broadcast on national television last Sunday. On Monday the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, announced the expenditure Estimates for 2012 and measures to reduce spending. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, delivered his first Budget Statement yesterday, setting...

Seanad: Budget 2012: Statements (6 Dec 2011) See 2 other results from this debate

Brian Hayes: ...policy of reform. Important measures have been implemented in order to achieve this objective. The Government established the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform under the Minster, Deputy Brendan Howlin. The budgetary process is being completely overhauled. Key changes in that respect will be bolstered by the fiscal responsibility Bill which is due to be published by the end of...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...elderly and disabled relatives, and hundreds slept rough on our city streets. Whatever way one looks at the measures put forward yesterday by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, they will impact overwhelmingly and disproportionately on those who have always been vulnerable. Following the Minister's delivery of the proposals in the Dáil yesterday, we...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Michael Mullins: ...decisions, we do not repeat them. I speak in the light of the recent scrapping of the decentralisation plan of the previous Government. I ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, to come into the House to give details of the cost to the State of that foolhardy and over-ambitious plan. How much land does the State own? What did it pay for it? What...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011) See 1 other result from this debate

Phil Hogan: The Senator should talk to the Minister, Deputy Brendan Howlin, about it.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: ...and in his own Department. His argument may be that he does not have the numbers - I accept that argument - but if not he needs to go back the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, and seek a derogation under the moratorium to employ additional people who would be responsible to local authorities, councillors around the country and the Environmental Protection...

Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011) See 71 other results from this debate

Brendan Howlin: I hope the Chair will do that.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...our citizens and our students and we need to serve our employers so that they continue to provide employment. We are at a new juncture. I urge the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, to press on with the abolition of severance pay for senior civil servants. Today we saw that the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, who is about to...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2011) See 1 other result from this debate

Darragh O'Brien: ...is that it should respect the Houses and make such announcements in the Houses. I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, to invite the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, who is responsible for public sector reform, to the House to explain to me and my colleagues why he, the Taoiseach and a number of other Ministers propose to continue with the dual...

Seanad: Reform of Junior Certificate: Statements (8 Nov 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: ...a full year. I have found the money from within existing funding and have so far met the requirements for budgetary reduction as requested by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin. The additional year will be primarily centred on pedagogical and educational skills and will incorporate a consideration of the multiple skills and intelligences of students and...

Seanad: Garda Stations (27 Oct 2011)

Averil Power: ...visits. However, almost five months later he has confirmed to the Dáil that there still is no agreement between himself and his colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, on providing more money for the Garda budget. It is now the end of October and the year's end is approaching swiftly. At this late juncture one may suspect that funding will not...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Attorneys General who raised serious concerns about the referendum on parliamentary investigations, concerns that I raised in the House with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin? The Minister dismissed the views of the former Attorneys General as nonsense. This arrogance shown by the Minister to eight Attorneys General, appointed by different parties, is...

Seanad: Report by Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)

Brian Hayes: ...programme for Government includes a commitment that we will assess this question and the assessment is working its way through the Department. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, is taking a particular interest in the matter. Do we need a new force to start lending again in the Irish market? I concur with Senator Aideen Hayden's view that the housing...

Seanad: An Bille um an Tríochadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Fiosruithe Thithe an Oireachtais) 2011: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha / Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Houses of the Oireachtas Inquiries) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Sep 2011) See 28 other results from this debate

Brendan Howlin: I am telling the House what the legal situation will be.

Seanad: An Bille um an Tríochadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Fiosruithe Thithe an Oireachtais) 2011: An Dara Céim / Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Houses of the Oireachtas Inquiries) Bill 2011: Second Stage (22 Sep 2011) See 45 other results from this debate

Brendan Howlin: It is explained.

Seanad: Family Home Bill 2011: Second Stage (27 Jul 2011)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes. He, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, were described by Senator Susan O'Keeffe as the "Celtic troika" in their attempts to right the country's finances. I welcome the Bill introduced by Senator Marc MacSharry. It is one element of the effort to...

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Dáil]: Second Stage (26 Jul 2011)

Thomas Byrne: It was not. It was the Minister, Deputy Brendan Howlin, in 1996.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Marc MacSharry: ...opportunity to debate economic issues. While I accept the Order of Business afforded some opportunity in that regard, irrespective of whether the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, or another Minister comes before the House, we must have a specific debate focused on solutions rather than political point scoring....