Results 23,621-23,640 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Is the microphone on?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Was it decided by Government today?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: This is not a once-off matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (30 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 266. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will expedite the processing of an invalidity pension for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25330/17]
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy has a bad memory.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: He burned the money directly in an incinerator in Cork.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: There was a collapse in the economy.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: And that they should take their money with them.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We lost the national coach.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: As this may prove to be my last question to Deputy Enda Kenny in his role as Taoiseach, I join others in wishing him and his family well in whatever the future holds for him. I am sure this is simply the opening of another chapter considering the energy he continues to display. Our period working together in government will certainly always be valued by me. I thank the Taoiseach and the...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: They had an audience.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the arrangements in place in his Department for supporting Independent Ministers. [25623/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is not there yet.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I will pursue those two points again and hopefully we will get a little more clarity from the Taoiseach on them. I have no difficulty with any member of the Government pursuing areas outside his or her own direct purview. The Cabinet acts as a collective and that is quite proper. I am more concerned about the reports in last week's Sunday Business Post that after a year of lecturing us all...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: His judgment and discernment, therefore, are of such a pure quality that the accusation of political interference could not possibly apply.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I would be interested to hear the Taoiseach's view on that. Regarding the Taoiseach's assertion that there is a mobile catheterisation laboratory in Waterford, I spoke on local radio this morning on this very subject. A bilateral arrangement was committed to, subsequent to the Herity report. That report, which was a sop to the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, had terms of reference...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is what the Minister, Deputy Ross, said he did.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: He blocked them up until last week.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department dealing with Brexit. [25621/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I take it that all three questions are being followed up together. When we took the previous group of questions, the Taoiseach was allowed to respond separately to each Deputy's supplementary questions. I take a different view from that of my Sinn Féin colleague. I commend the Taoiseach on the work he has done on Brexit. We all have views on what could have been done differently....