Results 26,501-26,520 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the research survey his Department was to commission in 2018 as part of the strategic communications unit; if it was proceeded with; and if so, the outcomes. [15463/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It is interesting that the survey promised after the winding-up of the strategic communications unit was not proceeded with. It was intended to happen and we were to be briefed on it. As the European and local elections approach, we are faced with launch after launch by the Government, the Taoiseach and his Ministers. The Government spent more than €4.3 million on advertising last...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Some Ministers had distributed the documentation to the media before some Deputies received it. It was voluminous and printed in full colour, although no contract has been signed and there is no likelihood of any contract for months. People have gone beyond the point of constant announcements of strategic issues. They want action. Does the Taoiseach agree the debacle over the strategic...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee G, justice and equality, last met. [15465/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Last Friday, an 18 year old boy, Azzam Raguragui, was tragically stabbed in Dundrum and died a short time later. I know the thoughts and sympathies of all of us in the House go out to Azzam's family. No one in our society should have to suffer the loss of a child but the sad fact is it could have been anybody's child, with knife crime becoming more and more common. The case highlights the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Expenditure (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding on average per annum spent of supporting STEM in areas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20372/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 339. To ask the Minister for Health if treatment for a person (details supplied) will be approved under the treatment abroad scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20715/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason illness benefit was ceased in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20373/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, has said that professional people should live like students in so-called co-living accommodation because that is the norm in London and New York. It is obvious that prices and rents are out of control in London and New York, which are among the most unaffordable housing markets in the world. London and New York...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach's reply is just mind-numbing in its lack of ambition. If we had gone into government in 2011 with that attitude to the economic crisis, we would still be in the morass. The Government has to be determined. The notion is that we cannot do enough because we do not have enough land. Is that what the Taoiseach is saying to us?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We have enough public land to build 80,000 houses tomorrow if we had the will to do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We have the builders to do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Of course we can find the workers and of course we can train the workers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Government must have the ambition to do it. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government wants to demolish standards whereas many of us who worked in local government, where many in this House started, have spent our lives trying to get away from such a thing. We are now talking about people sharing bathrooms or having no bathrooms. Co-living-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We are going backwards now. We are reducing standards so that people can live on top of one another. We are creating the social crises of the future instead of deciding that we are going to fix the problem with the same determination and absolute will used to address the economic crisis from 2011 onwards. I do not believe that the Taoiseach understands the issue and I am convinced that he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That is the very point I made. We went in with the will to solve it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We had no money until 2015-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: -----when we put in €2.8 billion.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The only houses the Minister is opening are the ones that we funded.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The only ones being opened now are the ones we funded because Fine Gael abandoned-----