Results 24,001-24,020 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: What is the amendment?
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I do not have it.
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I assumed that the Ceann Comhairle had ruled the amendment out of order.
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: What is the amendment?
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Does anyone have it?
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We are still debating it now.
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is my point.
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: How can it be in order to put it then?
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: But then are we not-----
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Whatever the merits or demerits of the position put forward by Deputy Adams, and there is a great deal of merit in it, my question relates to the status of the amendment now. We are on thin enough ice in this House in terms of public confidence in the way we do our business, but the notion that a motion could be put and passed that cannot be implemented brings us into disrepute. What is the...
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: No. They were not given effect rather than could not be given effect.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to establish a Cabinet committee on infrastructure and housing. [32693/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: In the Taoiseach's reply during Leaders' Questions I missed whether he gave a date for the publication of the capital plan and the related planning framework. Is there a date in mind? During Leaders' Questions, the Taoiseach talked about facilitating, and in fact welcoming, a protracted open-ended debate on the capital plan and planning framework. Will the Taoiseach produce some grounding...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is true; it was €1 billion. Everything was in bundles of €1 billion. I am interested in hearing the Taoiseach make it crystal clear that these projects are going ahead. On social housing, I was interested in remarks made by the Taoiseach during the summer about the need for a bespoke agency to drive a housing plan. I suggested a year ago - it was a strongly held view...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: There is also a sum of €200 million which has been ring-fenced from the sale of the national lottery licence.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I would like to ask a brief supplementary question in regard to my Question No. 3. The Taoiseach touched on the issue of bed capacity in our hospitals, which has been an issue of much focus, and he mentioned additional hospital build. In terms of acute hospital bed numbers, is the Taoiseach of the view that we have the required bed capacity or do we need more as per the broad spectrum of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I have not spoken to the next question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach have a date for completion of the review?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It deals with an older population too.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Was the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities discussed by the Cabinet committee? It was raised earlier in Leaders' Questions. It is time we in this House give a firm date for whatever needs to be done - as this process has been going on for a very long time - and that it will be completed in order that people who have been campaigning and are dependent on this convention...