Results 23,361-23,380 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Is that the Taoiseach's view?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I have not-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I have not got to put a second question yet.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Deputy McDonald was right when she said that there is no single view in respect of whether the United Kingdom should have stayed in the European Union. However, there is surely a commonality of interest in respect of what is good for the people of Northern Ireland and the people of the island of Ireland as a whole such that we can build a consensus view. Unfortunately, there is nobody at the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The very real question the Taoiseach asks is whether I or the House want Theresa May to arrive up and hold hands as Taoiseach and Prime Minister have done on every occasion and ride into it. I know from talking to people, including the American facilitators of peace over the time, that the question is about when they will actually stand on their own two feet. Will it be in a decade, two...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements with Mr. Donald Tusk on the Brexit negotiating mandate from the EU Council to the EU Commission. [16426/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is reported in today's Financial Timesthat the 27 EU member states are set to approve tough draft Brexit guidelines, among which would be that Britain will have to accept EU laws, the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice and pay a determined amount in budget fees if Britain is to seek even a gradual transition from the Single Market. Is there any agreement within the EU 27 on the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: If we go through everybody, we will have lost the first question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Is there a sum agreed?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Will there have to be agreement on the sum to move on?
- Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (11 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I will speak to the amendment in my name and that of my Labour Party colleagues. In doing so, I want to concentrate on the many areas on which I believe we have broad agreement in this House. We were all disturbed at the news that 145,000 District Court summonses for road traffic fixed charges were wrongly issued, which is an astonishing number, and that 14,700 of those resulted in...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I certainly have no difficulty with pre-European Council statements. I think they are the absolute norm and this is a particularly important meeting of the Council. We discuss this matter virtually every day during Leaders' Questions and we have had very good interactions in respect of preparing the ground for these matters. However, I have always been of the view that getting the right...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Will it go to Cabinet in the next couple of weeks?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I am concerned that there is no clear enunciation of a transport policy from the Government. It is unacceptable that this company is so distant from Government, although the Government owns it 100%, that the Government cannot have a vision of what public transport in Ireland should look like and how Bus Éireann will fit in to that vision. Most people are aghast at the complete lack of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (12 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met; and when it next intends to meet. [17853/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (12 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I commend the Government and all those involved, especially Cystic Fibrosis Ireland, on their efforts to reach a conclusion on the Orkambi issue. I hope it will be a pathfinder for similar issues as they arise, especially for discrete groups of people who suffer terribly despite the fact that breakthrough medicines are available. Will the Taoiseach address the status of a Government...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (12 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We did that at the time. I am asking about the next stage.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (12 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: When will it be provided?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (12 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: When will the under 12s get their GP care?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Emergency Plan (12 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the role his Department has in the event of a national emergency. [16727/17]