Results 24,421-24,440 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: How many?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: There is a report in today's edition of The Irish Timesthat emergency care services may be removed from hospitals in the Dublin-Midlands hospital group. I have a simple question to ask. Is that true? On the specific questions I asked, does the Taoiseach accept that there is a need for between 2,500 and 9,000 more beds? Providing 190 additional beds in the coming 12 months will go nowhere...
- Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I am sure it was inadvertent, but the Taoiseach's comments in the past week on the eighth amendment of the Constitution have produced a little confusion. Therefore, I ask him to clarify what he said. There are two issues at stake, one of which is the holding of a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment of the Constitution, while the second is the nature of any legislation that would flow...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet Committee B, social policy and public services, last met; and when it will meet again. [52001/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: This is obviously a very important Cabinet committee dealing, as it does, with social policy. Is the committee looking at the issue of the pension anomaly that currently exists that disproportionately adversely affects women? When will we see proposals emerging on this? There are two elements to this issue. The most obvious one is the impact of averaging on women who spent periods outside...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Government could recognise child-rearing and things of that sort.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Non-contributory pensions do not have to be paid at all.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Of course not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: That is stupid. It is a stupid thing to say.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach should not demean himself. The serious question we have raised deserves better than that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: It is transitional.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Dialogue (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Working in a collegiate manner is both an important aspect of government and a constitutional requirement. However, we have not seen this approach taken on every issue, including in respect of the constitutional amendment. I will return to what all speakers have agreed is the most important social issue facing the country, namely, the housing crisis. I had the privilege of serving in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Dialogue (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: NAMA is already building social housing now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet Committee G, justice and equality, last met; and when it will next meet. [1839/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Among the reform measures the Taoiseach has mentioned the most urgent goes back to the Toland report, the fundamental restructuring of the Department of Justice and Equality. It is important that the Taoiseach leads on this. What is his view because the Government's stated view is to have a division of functions within the existing Department, each reporting to a separate Secretary General...
- European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Fáilte romhat ar ais.
- European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: It is nearly a month since the December European Council meeting. Significant progress was made on Brexit and on the leaders' agenda, discussed prior to Christmas. It is unfortunate that debate on many of the changes under way in Europe has been limited and more often lost in the understandable focus on Brexit. Europe is changing, however. The rush to advance the defence agenda just prior...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Legal Cases Data (16 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 85. To ask the Taoiseach the number of extant legal proceedings to which the Attorney General is a party or a notice party in which the constitutional validity or consistency of an enactment has been challenged; the enactments involved and the present stage of those proceedings; the number of those cases in which a Minister is not also a party; and the number of cases in which the Director of...