Results 24,241-24,260 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: On this same issue, I support the call by colleagues. It would be extraordinary and undermine the public perception of democracy in this House if the Tánaiste made herself amenable to going on national programmes to be interviewed and answer questions posed by a journalist and refused to answer questions in the House. I am sure the Tánaiste will be more than willing to do so. I...
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Of course it makes sense for the Business Committee to organise the logistics of doing what the majority of the House wants, that is, a set of statements and then a series of questions. I imagine the statements will be short and that the Tánaiste will have as long as she needs to make her presentation. We all know the demarcation lines between the work of a tribunal of inquiry that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the implementation of measures in the programme for Government. [48128/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the United States of America; and his meetings with personnel from companies. [47836/17]
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister will circulate the email.
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Today's speaking points for the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach have relied on refuting a straw man, namely, the allegation that the Tánaiste designed or influenced the legal strategy deployed against Maurice McCabe. None of us has suggested that. We have suggested that when the Tánaiste received an email making her aware of it, even in a general sense, she should have acted on...
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I did not hear anybody in this House say that.
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Garda Commissioner was represented at the O'Higgins commission by lawyers from the Chief State Solicitor's office and the Office of the Attorney General. The Tánaiste and the Taoiseach are both on record as stating that the Department was only aware of the legal strategy deployed against Maurice McCabe after the fact. Can the Tánaiste clarify whether there was a management...
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Last Thursday it came to light in the Department of Justice and Equality that an email had been sent to the Tánaiste to inform her of what had happened in the O'Higgins commission in May 2015. Was there a deep trawl in the Department to find materials requested via parliamentary questions and requested by the tribunal itself? Is the Tánaiste now satisfied that all documentation...
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Your job.
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It was the Tánaiste's job to hold the Commissioner to account.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Reports (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance when the report of the working group on the tax and fiscal treatment of rental accommodation providers, expected to be submitted to him in July 2017, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48924/17]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The programme for Government contains several commitments to support the self-employed. I want to ask about those forced into false self-employment. Thousands of people across the country are being forced into bogus self-employment rather than being given proper contracts of employment. This is happening in construction, in the media and in the growing gig economy in a variety of sectors....
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: This side of Christmas?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent meeting of the British-Irish Council in Jersey. [49109/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: God love him.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: My colleague, Deputy Burton, has given a fair character assessment of the British Foreign Secretary. My concern is that the general views of the British Government, as presented in terms of the solutions for Ireland when Britain exits the European Union, are completely unformed. That is profoundly worrying. Deputy Martin is correct. The necessity of demanding focus has caused strains...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rugby World Cup 2023 (22 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on his role and work and that of his Department in Ireland's bid for the Rugby World Cup. [49111/17]
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It was kept from the Tánaiste for a week.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste was not told for a week.