Results 23,701-23,720 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Is the Minister trying to tell the Taoiseach something?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I thought he had made him a social democrat.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Another school year has passed. Schools throughout the country have filled their classes for next year without any reform to their admissions policy. The education committee will publish a report recommending the baptism barrier be ended. Just under a year ago the Dáil debated the Labour Party's Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill. The Taoiseach will remember the Government...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is a different Bill.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We can proceed with the Bill to Committee Stage and then we can discuss it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Then let us get the committee to discuss it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Will the Minster stop the Bill then?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements with the British Prime Minister since the UK general election. [27242/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I want to ask the Taoiseach two questions. First, in regard to his conversations with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. May, he stated afterwards that he was reassured about the DUP role in supporting the Conservative Government. What specifically what did the British Prime Minister say to the Taoiseach that gave him reassurances that whatever deal is arrived at with the DUP and the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It will be tempting to bring back Deputy Enda Kenny shortly.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Deputy Martin has 20 minutes
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I am very familiar with the way in which the Cabinet sub-committees worked in the previous Government. The Taoiseach is right. There are too many and they are too dispersed. However, on strategic issues, the Taoiseach being a driver makes it happen in a way it would not if he was not personally driving matters. Of what particular policy areas does the Taoiseach propose to take personal...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: What about the capital question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I asked about the capital issue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: On a point of order, there is no point in proceeding to the next grouping of questions when we have all asked questions and we have not been given answers to them. I have gone through two sets of questions now and I have only got one answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is the point but-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Of course.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle is absolutely right.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I am on the reform committee and I will certainly bring back to it that we should have a different format for this but, in terms of today, what number of minutes remain?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Could we at least go through the answer to that question, the question on-----