Results 23,301-23,320 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Those who hold themselves out to be counsellors can be regulated. The point I was trying to get at in regard to the very incisive point by my Fianna Fáil colleagues is there will be a lot of people who will give out advice. For example, one could get advice from one's local priest in the confessional. They do not purport to be professionals and there is no way of regulating that....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is my understanding. I will allow the Minister's officials explain what they are proposing but that is what the Minister has explained to my colleagues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I want the Bill to progress if that is deemed to be the best way of doing it. I have complete confidence in this committee interrogating my approach and the approach being put forward by the Minister for Health. As we all share the same objective, I am content with whatever path the committee determines is the best way to go.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Implement it.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We are constantly making announcements on the notion of having a business committee. We cannot have this discussion here. Either we are going to abandon the notion of having a business committee-----
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: -----making the decisions on behalf of all of us, because there is no point in having a parallel debate-----
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: There should be another meeting of the Business Committee if what has been presented by Deputy Mattie McGrath is not what was agreed at the Business Committee-----
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Then there should be another meeting of the Business Committee.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It has been discussed and a reform has been agreed.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: In last year's budget, the Government promised that an affordable child care scheme would be introduced in September this year. At the time, my party said the approach was not ambitious enough and that is still our view but we regard the introduction of the scheme as the correct overall approach. When will we see the legislation to enable this to happen and is it still a firm commitment of...
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Amendments to the programme for Government.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on European Affairs last met; and when it will next meet. [16423/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance and meetings at the event to mark the 60th Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome. [16729/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: So long as it is Britain first.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: By way of clarification, the Taoiseach said the Government will publish a detailed list of actions. Will that be a Government White Paper on Brexit? By when will it be published?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Will it be a White Paper?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Did the Taoiseach have sight in advance of the document that was published by President Tusk? Does the Taoiseach agree with the Spanish position on Gibraltar that Spain will not agree to a free trade agreement with the UK that covers Gibraltar? Has the Taoiseach discussed that with Prime Minister Rajoy or with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar? Does the Taoiseach see that conditionality...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: What about the active Spanish veto over trade agreements?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We will have a full debate.