Results 24,901-24,920 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: He should have ended it when told what it was about.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: He did not say that to the-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste is conflating two issues: the outcome of the passing on of the information and the actual fact of passing on the information. There is no doubt that the passing on of his likely course of action — these are his own words; that is what he told the House — compromised the statutory process. Whether it was acted upon is irrelevant to that fact. Bearing in...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: He should not have done it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Under the prudent maxim of "As we work for the best, we prepare for the worst" and given the public indication that contingency planning is under way across Departments in the event of a hard Brexit, we understand that upwards of 270 or 280 documents have been submitted. What interaction does the Tánaiste propose to have with Members of this House with regard to the preparations that...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Let us abolish them.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: It should be abolished.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Of course, one is.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: First, I wish to identify myself and the Labour Party with the words of condolence and solidarity expressed with the people of Toronto and Canada generally in the aftermath of yesterday's dreadful events. Following a survey of almost 2,000 parents last August, Barnardos published a report on back to school costs. This showed that the average cost of sending a senior infant to school was...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: We had collective responsibility at that stage, did we not?
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Obviously not.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Capitation rates, as well as many other things, were reduced in the crisis years. We all share responsibility for those decisions. The problem now is that they have not been restored at a time when other things have been. Before we left office, we restored social welfare payments as best we could. There is a commitment in terms of pay. We negotiated pay restoration. The capitation grant...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach should be attacking the decisions he made as a member of Cabinet.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: He should attack himself.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: We were living in different economic times, as the Taoiseach keeps saying. What happened to the decade that was lost?
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: That is because they had the money to do it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Yesterday RTÉ published a review of its two orchestras. The report, RTÉ Orchestras: Ensuring a sustainable future, was welcomed by both the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment and the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. They welcomed in particular a recommendation that the National Symphony Orchestra should be a national cultural institution...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: When?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: It went through Second Stage before the general election.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the progress on delivering the recommendations of the report on the review of the strategic communications unit. [16463/18]