Results 27,081-27,100 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 17 September 2019, if authorisation has issued to invite tenders for the project; if so, when tenders be invited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46036/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (12 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the position of replacement principal will be advertised for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46038/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development Initiatives (12 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 281. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 303 of 17 September 2019, when construction will commence on the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46039/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care for Children (12 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 377. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the provision of palliative care facilities in the south-east; his views on the lack of paediatric palliative care; if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if appropriate paediatric palliative care will be made available in the future to children facing the same challenges; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Landfill Sites (12 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 435. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 533 of 17 September 2019, if tenders have now been invited for the project; if so, the closing date for receipt of tenders; the number of contractors invited to tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46034/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: In responding to Deputy Broughan on a most serious issue, the Taoiseach referred to the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017. The Bill was supposed to have been enacted last summer. I note the Department of Justice and Equality had brought a group of Bills to enactment last year but this was not one of them. More than half of Deputies who responded to a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We need to enact this legislation. Can I have timeframe?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken with the UK Prime Minister since 29 October 2019. [46450/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I agree with Deputy Micheál Martin's comment that, because there is now a full-blown general election campaign in Britain, the UK Prime Minister is focusing exclusively on a domestic audience, but we have to be careful about the implications for us of what he is saying. I want to examine this further so we can be clear in this House about the Taoiseach's understanding of the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Yesterday I expressed my frustration that none of my three questions had been answered. I will, therefore, put one of them again as the opportunity to do so has been afforded to me. It has been reported that the Minister for Health is to tell the Cabinet this week that eliminating the practise of private medicine in public hospitals would free up 2,000 beds across the country and reduce...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It stated there would be a single tier.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: They are paying it in health insurance.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Nobody believes that.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy will next meet. [46452/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It does.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Last year, at the heart of a housing and rental crisis, local authorities built only 2,022 homes. A report entitled, Construction Sector Performance and Prospects 2019, illustrates that there is poor productivity in that sector. It contains an analysis of recovery of other sectors in the domestic economy and showed how far behind the construction sector is in terms of productivity and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It was 2,000.

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: According to a spending review, published by the Department of Justice and Equality in August, 39 direct provision centres are in operation. Seven of them are State-owned but all the centres are managed by private contractors. Recent statistics show that we had just under 3,000 applications for asylum in 2017 with just over 5,000 people living in direct provision with an average length of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on progress on the Climate Action Plan 2019; and the role of his Department in the delivery of same. [45465/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Investigation (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 84. To ask the Taoiseach the projected costs in regard to the Commission of Investigation into IBRC. [46455/19]