Results 24,341-24,360 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ship Disposal (5 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 440. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the resources his Department has devoted to the removal of abandoned boats around the coast; the powers local authorities have to force owners to remove such boats; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51968/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ship Disposal (5 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 454. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the resources his Department has devoted to the removal of abandoned boats around the coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51967/17]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is over a year since the Government announced in budget 2017 its intention to pursue an affordable child care scheme. Many parents across Ireland have since seen their child care costs increase well above any subsidy provided by the State. As the Taoiseach knows, the universal subsidy is worth about €80 per month. I know of one example where parents faced an increase of...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: There is no doubt about it.
- Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Yesterday I proposed to the House that this matter would be referred to the defence committee, and I understood there was broad agreement on it, so that it would be capable of calling witnesses and the Army would be able to present at it, but now I understand that a joke is being made of that proposal. It is going to the defence committee but it is coming back here tomorrow, so there is no...
- Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is impossible.
- Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The very thing the Ceann Comhairle said cannot be done.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Membership (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. On the specific role of the national security committee, has it given consideration to a matter I raised with the Taoiseach previously, namely, the need for a bespoke security agency which would separate security considerations from An Garda Síochána, leaving the Garda as a policing organisation and taking all the elements of security it...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Membership (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: How many levels are there?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Membership (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is correct.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister thinks 80% of it has been done.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That did not happen for another week.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Who made the allegations?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Is it the Deputy Commissioner who is making the allegation?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the number of political staff he has now appointed; and his plans for further appointments. [51722/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Applications (6 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the minor works grant is being paid to primary schools; and if so, when payment will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52140/17]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: My question is directed to the Minister for Health. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health recently carried out a pre-legislative scrutiny of the children's health Bill 2017 which will establish a statutory body to provide paediatric acute services in Dublin at the new children's hospital. The general scheme, as published, did not include a name for the hospital. We now see there is...
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is a novel way of subsequently answering questions. Today The Irish Timesreports that buyers of new homes could be at risk of losing their deposits. This is because contracts being used by developers no longer have old fashioned protective clauses. For example, a subject-to-loan-closure clause used to be standard in contracts. Now somebody who has made a deposit but for some reason...
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The third Department in 18 months.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Why does the Government not do that?