Results 24,721-24,740 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach have a list of the Independents that are being supported by the liaison unit?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach can come back to me on it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach might send us the list.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I will allow Deputy McDonald to go first.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information, FOI, requests received by his Department in 2017; the number of staff working in this section; the number of requests that have been refused and the number appealed. [9878/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. He will be aware that the Government is a member of the Open Government Partnership, which is another initiative that I was privileged to propose in government. The programme for Government commits to transparent oversight building on the freedom of information reforms which the Taoiseach kindly acknowledged were proposed by me in government. There...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I am sure the Taoiseach will come back to me on the question regarding appeals to the Information Commissioner.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach said he took a step back from the strategic communications unit once there was any controversy. It is my understanding - my deep understanding as a former Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform - that in budgeting, it is a Minister who determines the amount of money to be sought for any agency or unit. Who then proposed that the strategic communications unit should get...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Was the figure proposed by the Taoiseach?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Státseirbhís (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's Irish language policy. [10931/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Státseirbhís (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Tá a fhios ag an gCeann Comhairle go raibh díospóireacht againn sa Teach seo tráthnóna aréir ar an nGaeilge, ar staid na teanga agus ar an nGaeltacht. Dúirt mé sa díospóireacht sin gurb é mo thuairim féin ná gur theip muid mar Stát agus mar chóras oideachais an teanga a chur chun cinn ó bhunú an Stáit....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Státseirbhís (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: An bhfuil tú cinnte go bhfuil sé sin fíor?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Státseirbhís (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Buíochas leis an Uachtarán Michael D. Higgins.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Státseirbhís (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Sárobair.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Like other speakers, I welcome the opportunity to address the House on the issue of Northern Ireland and the various issues that impact on Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland as a whole. The normal process available to us to do that is through Taoiseach's Questions, and we have repeatedly said that it is wholly inadequate. The notion that we occasionally have 15 minutes to make...
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: She rejected the legal statement of that agreement, absolutely and totally. Deputy Martin, quite reasonably, said that we must take the woman at her word.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The problem is which word. Is it her word when she that she signed up to the agreement reached last December or is it her word that no Prime Minister could sign up to the agreement that she signed up to last December? Earlier, I raised with the Taoiseach the statement which today set out the negotiating position of the EU27 in very stark and clear terms. What we are undoubtedly heading...
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Both of those are economically damaging to the peoples North and South. It is lovely to say that it is not. I am encouraged by that and I respect the Tánaiste's view, but the conundrum of last December has not been resolved. There cannot be a situation where there is no border between North and South and no border between east and west, but the North is in a different customs union to...
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste says the solution is the backstop, but the backstop cannot be implemented by the British Government. Let us stop the pretence. Let us not delude ourselves that the backstop is available when all else fails. The hardline position being taken by the EU 27 may be understandable because they have been extraordinarily helpful in giving space to a British Prime Minister under a...
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Brendan Howlin: It talks about Canada.