Results 23,241-23,260 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: More than the price of a sandwich.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach will obviously provide me with the data I require to answer the question I asked.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Is it the practice in the Department that all freedom of information requests are published? Is this at the same time as they are provided to the requester? This is a very good idea because it gives the public an opportunity to evaluate them given that not all freedom of information requests are of equal value. There is a really important underpinning of democracy in having access to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: My question is on the same issue of Brexit. Deputy McGrath put it succinctly in describing it as a harmless document. Brexit is listed in the strategic priorities but among a group of (a) to (f), including planning for the future and a better society. Specifically, however, Brexit does not get a mention in the core work activities of the Department, which are listed in the document. The...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversation and discussions with Prime Minister May following the Northern Ireland Assembly elections. [13187/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I agree entirely with the view, as I think everybody in this House does, that we need to have a functioning Executive back in Northern Ireland. We certainly do not need either another round of elections or the imposition of direct rule. We must find a path that avoids those two outcomes. We are all reflecting on the death of Martin McGuinness today. How, in the Taoiseach's view, will that...
- European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is odd that we are debating the most recent European Council meeting on the same day it is announced that the next meeting will decide the negotiating strategy for Brexit. I hope we can have a meaningful debate on Brexit before the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May, sends her letter to the Commission next week. It is important that we have an opportunity to have a debate, and not...
- European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I want to make a political point. I have great respect for Donald Tusk but it is a problematic decision. It is not good that the European People's Party now holds the presidency of the European Council, the presidency of the European Parliament and the presidency of the European Commission. That never has been the position in the past. There has been always an understanding that there is...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (21 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a revised estimate of Ireland's gross and net debt to Gross Domestic Product, GDP, ratio, in view of the publication by the Central Statistics Office of Quarterly National Accounts Quarter 4 2016 and Year 2016 (Preliminary) on 9 March 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13483/17]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Ireland was described in an article I read as the wild west of gambling due to the lack of regulation of the gambling sector here. The Gambling Control Bill passed pre-legislative scrutiny in 2013. The current Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, Deputy David Stanton, was Chairman of the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality when the pre-legislative scrutiny of...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: What about the main Bill?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the outcome of the European Council meeting of 9 and 10 March 2017. [13188/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We had questions yesterday and statements on the recent European Council meeting. Am I to understand from the Taoiseach's response that he had sight of the draft response that will be issued by President Tusk once he receives the letter from Prime Minister May and that there is a paragraph on Ireland in that? Is that what he is suggesting?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach can come back and explain exactly. Do we have any input into crafting this particular outline of the policy platform being discussed and proposed to be adopted by the 27 member states? Are we crafting that particular section? I was intrigued yesterday to read in The Irish Timesunder the headline, "Government believes it can secure Brexit deal on Border" that "...the Government...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: He said he will respond in 48 hours so it must be in existence already.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Ireland will craft it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: A rigorous Chair, I suggest.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Certainly not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: An additional five minutes.