Results 23,841-23,860 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Will he be an ambassador?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Does he or the ambassador speak authoritatively?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Fund-raising.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: He was in their company.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (5 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his telephone conversation with British Prime Minister May on 27 June 2017. [31183/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (5 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We are all worried about the imminent breakdown in the current talks in Northern Ireland that seems to put back the prospect, because of the impending marching season, of a reconstitution of the Executive until September at the earliest. That is profoundly worrying. Some months ago, the Taoiseach did an interview with Sean O'Rourke on his radio show during which he criticised the UK...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (5 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 29 November 2016, if the comprehensive legal advice referred to has been fully analysed; if a decision has been made in the matter of providing ex gratia payments to former employees of LCDP companies made redundant and whereby no moneys were available to fund payments;...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The person who provided the money was not invited.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I want to ask about the social welfare and pensions Bill. We were informed today that there is yet another bilateral agreement between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on the passing of that Bill. Our party spokesperson, Deputy Willie Penrose, sought to engage with the Minister on it. For the information of the other Members of the House who are not part of this arrangement - any pretence...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: How can it be taken before we will have seen it?
- Genuine Progress Indicators and National Distributional Accounts Bill 2017: First Stage (6 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to confer functions on the Central Statistics Office and the National Economic and Social Council in relation to the publication of indices, to be known as Genuine Progress Indicators, designed to take fuller account of the well-being of the community by incorporating environmental and social factors which are not otherwise...
- Genuine Progress Indicators and National Distributional Accounts Bill 2017: First Stage (6 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: In respect of the defence motion that is scheduled for tomorrow, we have not had sight of it yet. Obviously there was some discussion of the change from operation Pontus to operation Sophia. We would need to see the detail. It is not good policy to have a very significant decision being made without the Opposition parties having more than a matter of hours' sight of it. If it has not...
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Why the rush?
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: If the triple lock is to mean anything, we have to have time to see the motion.
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Can we return to this issue tomorrow morning when we have had a chance to look at the motion? Then we can see what kind of timeframe is required.
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Let us park the issue until tomorrow morning.
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Thursday.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the legislation his Department is planning to introduce. [31184/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Having pursued the matter with the former Taoiseach, I am trying to get a view from the new Taoiseach as to the role he sees for the National Economic and Social Council into the future. As the Taoiseach knows, there was a very long gap between the termination of the term of office of the previous incumbents and the appointment of a new council. The Government's legislative programme lists...