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- Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I have escaped.
- Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: This is done elsewhere. There are models such as the one in Australia where this is done. It is a matter of having the will to do it. We do it here with the funds of suitors and the dormant accounts fund. Under the legislation, we take inactive accounts or funds of suitors, use them for a public good and if somebody subsequently says it is his or her money there is a provision for that....
- Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 3:In page 6, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:“Certain payments not to be proceeds of crime7.(1) Subsection (2)applies if by any enactment to be passed it is provided that a person who pays or gives another person money or other consideration for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity with a prostitute is guilty of an offence, while the receipt...
- Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I take the Tánaiste's point and the very valid point by made by my Fianna Fáil colleague. I wanted to make the point in advance of the Bill so we could reflect upon it. The point is made. I will withdraw the amendment.
- European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training: Motion (21 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: The Labour Party supports the adoption of this regulation. CEPOL is the acronym for the European Police College, which continues to be a useful training device for police. In the international world of criminal activity, we need to have the expertise gathered from one nation shared. The European Police College was based in Bramshill in Hampshire up to September 2014, when it was then...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Not on Leaders' Questions.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: The Government is making it up as it goes along.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (21 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Returning to the issue of child and adolescent mental health, the particular case referenced by Deputy McDonald will strike concern in all of us because we know of similar cases. The ISPCC published its annual report today, the details of which I will not go into now. It makes for harrowing reading to learn that some children are waiting 18 months for referral to a child psychologist. I...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (21 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I am continuing on issues related to mental health. There are two other commitments in the programme for a partnership Government with regard to mental health, one of which relates to building capacity in child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS. What is the target and delivery date in that regard? Also, on inter-agency connection between the voluntary and the statutory sectors,...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (21 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Is a task force being established?
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Grants (21 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 861. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on concern within the research community regarding possible reforms to the system used to allocate research grants; the specific plans, if any, to divest her Department’s control of the programme for research in third-level institutions, PRTLI, to Science Foundation Ireland; and her views on the fact that any...
- Business of Dáil (7 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Could I ask a question about the arrangements for today's sitting? At the end of a debate such as that which will take place today, there is precedent for allowing questions about issues that may arise during the course of the day to be directed to the relevant Ministers from the Opposition benches. Would it be possible to provide a short period - perhaps half an hour - for questions at the...
- Business of Dáil (7 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I do not think he is allowed to make a decision.
- Business of Dáil (7 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Thirty minutes.
- Business of Dáil (7 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: As amended.
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Even Slab Murphy.
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Should we solve all that?
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I will begin by saying that I do know James Connolly. He was a good republican unlike Slab Murphy who some describe as a good republican. The Labour Party will seek to amend the Government motion before the House. I want to be clear that my party supports, in principle, the decision eventually made by the Government to appeal this case. It is clear, from all that has been said by...
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Of course, they know that. They are the same people who talked about mock patriotism and brave Irish patriots but who wanted to send the troika home in 2011 and tell it to "take your money with you".
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: They would have broken the country-----