Results 1-20 of 78 for revert speaker:Brendan Howlin

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...not sitting as a judge and does not have a court registrar in front of him or her, my clear advice is that the judge does not have compellability powers. However, the Minister can check that and revert to us.

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...people the Minister of State and every other Deputy, including me, are meeting in our constituencies needs to be met with real solutions and a sense of urgency. I ask that the Minister of State revert to his senior colleague and ask him to withdraw the self-congratulatory amendment that all is well and all the schemes are marvellous and working, denying the reality we know is facing many...

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...today, that is clearly not the case. Options are to be provided but only where they suit the employer, otherwise not. That is at the core of the issue. We know only too well how easy it is to revert to the way things were always done. That is the convenient, simple way. Many of the changes that came about in banking after the economic crash, when we swore we would learn from our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Special EU Programmes Body: Engagement with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jan 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...of Commissioner Ferreira indicated in December that an initial allocation was made. Have particular projects been identified and has money been allocated to them from that fund? The Minister can revert to the committee if he does not have the information to hand today.

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ...than for the purpose of obtaining, directly or indirectly, a financial or material benefit. I am interested in Deputy Connolly's view on this but, on the face of it, this seems to me to simply revert matters to the status quounder the 2000 Act. It would again fall on the State to prove that the actor was trying to benefit materially from the action. We, or at least some of us, have...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ...which we all know. I have no idea what the doctrine of lost modern grant is. Maybe it trips off the tongue of the Acting Chairman. Apparently, it is a very important doctrine. In essence, what we are being asked to do is to revert to the old rules, but we are also told that the people who gave us the 2009 Act are going to have another go as there is going to be another review and it...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ...from the domain of the Garda itself and be done independently. I confess that I have not read the legislation because it was only published yesterday but I look forward to reading and debating it. I would be concerned if we reverted to an in-house appointment system. One of the great changes brought about by the Policing Authority was an independent system of appointing senior...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...security and safety in a time of crisis. I hope this appreciation of public investment in public services and of the labour of those involved in delivering those services is a permanent change. We cannot simply revert back to normal practice when this awful set of crises passes. The Government and this House will deploy a wall of money to address the twin unprecedented challenges of...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...law and so on. It is an area in respect of which we need to have much more capacity in the Office of the Chief State Solicitor. It is a matter that the Taoiseach might examine. I will revert to him on it. The Taoiseach has raised the Louise O'Keefe case. Since he has done so, I will not overemphasise it now. The State has expended a lot of money fighting it. I welcome the fact...

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...its utterances. Covid-19 has meant our focus on the oncoming end-of-year and end-of-transition period has greatly diminished for obvious and understandable reasons. Meanwhile, the UK seems to have reverted to the original "have your cake and eat it" demand. Despite the last minute agreement at the end of last year, including the political declaration we thought was a solution, the UK...

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...as possible, as closely and densely packed as possible. How permanent this new attitude will be remains to be seen, but I do not think, and the Minister has said so himself, that things will not revert to pre-Covid 19 norms in their totality. Fewer people will travel, more people will work from home and residual fears of close contact will probably exist for some considerable time to...

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...will be highly influential on the EU's decisions about trade with the UK. There is no doubt that there will be pressure from many sources simply to get a deal done rather than allow trade to revert to WTO terms at the end of this year. In the short term, trading on WTO rules would be seriously damaging to Ireland. Nobody is under any illusion about that. However, we cannot let the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I was also truly shocked and saddened at the emerging news of 39 deaths in a container that may have passed through this country and that is certainly an issue to which we must revert as soon as we have more information. In less than 48 hours, 820 good jobs have been lost in the south west between the 320 jobs at Novartis pharmaceutical company and 500 jobs at Molex electronic components...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: .... Is it not time we left those types of characterisations in the past? In a republic, we cherish the right of everybody to adhere to and express the religion of their choice, but we should not revert to a time when clerics instructed politicians, as used to be the case in both this jurisdiction and the North. Does the Taoiseach intend to discuss the aforementioned comment about...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Stamp Duties - Section 126AA Bank Levy (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: ...which is a technical "stand still" suggestion. Obviously, we cannot table an amendment because we are not allowed to table an amendment that increases a tax, but I ask that the Government, if the House rejects the resolution, revert to us with a resolution that would give a robust package that would be fair to the people of Ireland who bailed out the banks and suffered incredibly because...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We discussed the issue in the context of the previous group of questions and the Taoiseach stated that he would revert to us.

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Tánaiste for the clarity of her response. The battle for equality in terms of employment for women has been a very long battle and it is not over. On the notion that Ministers would revert to practices that we really thought were gone, I do not think anyone in any interview situation would begin to believe one could ask those sorts of questions now. This level of clarity...

Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann: Sitting in Joint Committee - Exchange of views with Mr. Michel Barnier, Chief Negotiator of the Taskforce for the Preparation and Conduct of Negotiations with the United Kingdom (11 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...day-to-day sense for us to talk about membership of a true single market in regard to the goods and services that we import and export. Talk of the Single Market will, from our perspective, revert from being almost a practical reality that we almost had fully achieved towards something more closely resembling an aspiration. As I stated earlier, the basic reason is one of geography....

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: .... We need to use the proceeds from the sale of any portion of AIB to further boost the amount of money available for investment, rather than simply to pay down debt. We need to front load the investment as much as possible, rather than reverting to pro-cyclical investment strategies. Above all, we need to see capital investment as providing real social benefits as well as economic...

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...commission that is both radical and comprehensive. I had a chance, at a very basic level, to read the draft terms of reference circulated this afternoon. On first reading, they appear to be comprehensive. We will, of course, revert to the Tánaiste with more detailed consideration once we have examined the terms of reference in detail. I agree that we now need fundamental change....