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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Which is like the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB, was when it was pending legislation.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: We should not be naive though.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: What about Sweden, Belgium or the Netherlands?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for the update and commend him on participating in the Passover seder. It was a good initiative. Is a formal process in place for the Department of the Taoiseach to engage with church leaders and faith communities? How is it constructed and organised? Is it done by Civil Service staff or political staff? Will the Taoiseach give us any more detail on the programme...
- Business of Dáil (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: It is a question and a reply.
- Business of Dáil (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Everyone gets three one-minute questions.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: There is no record of a phone call on 11 November in the lobbying register. This was a private call relaying private information that was not publicly available. In response, as others have said, to the parliamentary question from Deputy Murphy on 6 December, the Minister said that the case was under consideration. He told Mr. Eoin Ó Neachtain 25 days previously that he would be...
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister had three options under the Act. Referral to the BAI was one of them. Why did the Minister reveal his intended choice, before the process even got under way, to an interested party on a matter that obviously was price sensitive to the share price involved? Does the Minister consider that to be an appropriate or proper act of a Minister?
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: What advice did the Minister's officials give him subsequent to the Minister having this telephone call? Presumably, the Minister advised his officials that this telephone call had taken place. What did the Minister's officials tell him in respect of the appropriateness of this? Did the Minister conceal the fact that he had had this conversation from his own officials? Is that why...
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister told no officials about this call. Therefore, I presume the call did not come through on an official line. Was the Minister contacted then on his private line at home or on his private mobile telephone by Mr. Ó Neachtain directly? Is that what the Minister is telling us? Is he saying nothing of that discussion ever was communicated to the officials dealing with this...
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Was this the only communication the Minister had with representatives of the public relations agency or agents of Independent News &Media? Were there any other telephone calls?
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I did not ask about that.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: My question was about Independent News & Media or representatives of the company.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Then how can we look at it?
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Bioenergy Strategy (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 66. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in the preparation of the National Policy Statement on the Bioeconomy. [16666/18]
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Of course it did.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Let us start with the Tánaiste's own words, his statement on assessing the truth and the facts. The Minister, in a private call with a lobbyist, provided commercially confidential information as to his intended course of action on an important matter. That is a fact. That information did not-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Is it not a fact that the Minister told the lobbyist of his intended course of action when he had a statutory duty to make that decision? That information did not become public for a further two months. There was a statutory process in place that the Minister pre-empted. In his own words to the House yesterday, he expressed "a purely personal view that the likely course of action would be...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I said "likely course of action". That is what he told the House.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: He told the House yesterday.