Results 22,501-22,520 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Over the last couple of years, as the Taoiseach will remember, we started work to restore the Christmas bonus to families in receipt of social welfare payments. As he knows, these payments are incredibly important, particularly at Christmastime, to some of the lowest-income households in the country, for example, a pensioner on €230 per week. It meant having an extra €173 last...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: We resisted that.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach is correct. There is never, within the budgetary process, a provision for the Christmas bonus. It has always been, from its inception, paid by way of Supplementary Estimate. That was the way it was paid for last year and that is the way it has been paid for since we restored it. We brought in a Supplementary Estimate, the Taoiseach will recall, and negotiated for €197...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: This is a real point of anxiety for the most vulnerable people in the country. The Taoiseach can allay that anxiety by telling us there will be a Supplementary Estimate. It has nothing to do with next year's budget and nothing to do with the budgetary process because the payment will be made in this calendar year and accrue on this year's accounts. That is how it works, as the Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: One can take it in.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: The previous Government established an independent review mechanism to deal with various allegations of Garda misconduct. The overview report was published last July and in five of the 320 cases, the expert panel considered that an inquiry was required and the Minister accepted this. When will we see the terms of reference for these five recommended inquiries, including the allegations made...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste will be aware of the considerable work done to consolidate overarching legislation on standards and ethics in the public sector. The previous Administration published the Public Sector Standards Bill, which completed Second Stage. This is substantial legislation which involved a significant amount of work. What is the Government's intention with regard to the Bill? Is it...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Under the new political situation, is it a Government Bill that will be travelled by the Government as a priority Bill in this session?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (29 Sep 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the reason persons (details supplied) in County Wexford cannot be granted a concessionary bus ticket for school; if he will review this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28023/16]
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2016)
Brendan Howlin: In recent weeks, industrial unrest has begun to increase. What started with the Luas workers spread to Dublin Bus drivers. Now, gardaí are the latest group to announce industrial action. As the economy continues to grow and recover, it is clear that the demand for income recovery will continue to increase. It is the view of my party that solutions must be found to properly address...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach accept that having individual talks with individual unions is an invitation for further unions to be more confrontational and would be very destabilising for the industrial relations backdrop, which is so essential given that we have had industrial peace in the public services for the past five years? I have not tabled any suggestion for the old social dialogue that...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I know that.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I want to indicate the Labour Party support for such a motion.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Sure we might as well not be here at all. Why would we debate it?
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Brendan Howlin: What difference will it make? What is the point in having a motion-----
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Brendan Howlin: The legislative programme published by the Government lists the judicial council Bill for priority in this session. In the list of Bills to undergo pre-legislative scrutiny this session, the programme includes the judicial appointments Bill. I take it that these will be taken as two separate Bills. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport has told us, via The Irish Times, that we have...
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Brendan Howlin: That is very heartening. That is two Ministers in successive weeks.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Brendan Howlin: So appointments are going ahead then.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Yesterday, when I raised the judicial appointments legislation, the Taoiseach gave an undertaking to the House that he will not allow the year, or many months, it will take to enact the legislation to stop the appointment of urgently needed judges, for example, to the Court of Appeal. That was the instance he gave. According toThe Irish Times, a few hours later his spokesperson contradicted...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Is there an embargo on appointments?