Results 20,021-20,040 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: To hear Fianna Fáil talk about false promises, I remind Deputy Dooley that they banjaxed the country.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: We have now restored it and the least Deputy Dooley could do, in modesty, is to allow me to answer questions for people who are asking serious questions. In reply to Deputy McDonald, the Government has been listening to the voice of people. We understand the impositions of the past number of years but we also look at the consequence for countries - I refer in particular and very carefully...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: If four years ago we followed the path that Sinn Féin has mapped out for us we would be in ruin now. We would not be talking about-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I know that a democratic assembly is difficult for some people to listen to; they like to shout people down from the back of a truck.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: If Sinn Féin and the Socialist Workers' Party, the Anti-Austerity Alliance, People Before Profit and whatever-you-are-having-today party, had their way, we would now not be paying 16 cent a day for a water charge or 43 cent a day for a family of more than two adults, we would be in ruin without being able to pay for any basic services.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I thank Deputy O'Sullivan for her question and her acknowledgement of the fact this is a very complex area which requires a multifaceted approach. This has already been embraced by the Minister, Deputy Kelly, in what Deputy O'Sullivan has characterised as a collaborative non-party way. It is a priority, and the centrepiece of my Budget Statement was the twin issues of providing social...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: She has made very sensible proposals and I am anxious to embrace them. The scale and nature of the drug problem in Ireland is evolving. It is not a constant issue. There are issues we now need to begin to address again. When I was the Minister for Health, a very long time ago, the issue of providing injecting heroin users with methadone was first highlighted. I am not sure this is a...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: It is proposed to take No. 15, Supplementary Estimates for Public Services - Votes 12, 17, 25, 26, 30, 31, 32, 39 and 40, back from committee; and No. 31, Water Services Bill 2014 - Committee Stage (resumed) and Remaining Stages. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that (1) the Dáil shall sit later than 5.30 p.m. today and shall adjourn not later than 10 p.m.,...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Deputies for their comments. I should explain to those Members of the House who were not in attendance at the Select Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform. Vote 12 relates to the payment of pension entitlements to retiring civil servants. Some 1,100 have worked all their lives in the Civil Service and are entitled to their pensions. I am anxious that they are paid. The...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The particular information the Deputies sought was a breakdown of each type of pensioner. It was a very reasonable request. It is being compiled from Departments because it does not exist in one spreadsheet. The assistant secretary of my Department rang Deputy Sean Fleming this morning offering a full personal briefing today on the matter and offered to give the Deputies a précis of...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Old Fianna Fáil used to support this.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: It is agreed.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Is the Deputy going to vote against the pensions?
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Old Fianna Fáil would have supported the pensioners.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Yes. There will be votes tomorrow.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Everybody in the House was shocked at the revelations about Arás Attracta. Having seen so much and after so many inquiries, one imagines that one is inured to those things. However, I watched it with colleagues from the House and I found it really disturbing. I agree with the Deputy that there needs to be a full inquiry into it. The first inquiry, obviously, because what we saw prima...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: ----- facility like it. While I know I should not respond to Deputy Broughan's sidebar, this is not about resources. There were five trained nurses shown on screen in a bungalow. This was about abuse of power.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I know I should not encourage the Deputy. The notion that a Minister sitting in a Department is responsible for the action of 100,000 public servants-----
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Brendan Howlin: ----- is bizarre. We need to have accountability on the front line-----