Results 27,101-27,120 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government is publishing a report today that calls for a national homeless family strategy that focuses on the needs of children. The Labour Party has been calling for this for some time. My colleague, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, introduced the Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017, which passed Second Stage in the House in March...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Tánaiste the response. It is a prepared response for a question on the progress being made on housing. I welcome progress being made, but my question is child focused. It picks up on the analysis carried out by the two committees referred to by the Tánaiste. The housing committee has done very good work over the last few years on a number of proposals. However, I...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Has the Tánaiste read the reports?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: It is 20 months.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: The upcoming report of the Committee of Public Accounts will highlight again the Government's mismanagement of precious State financial resources. The report is set to highlight overspending in areas such as An Garda Síochána, the Health Service Executive, the direct provision system and a range of other public agencies across the board. For example, in the case of the HSE alone,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: That is just the spin machine.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Ten thousand homeless.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Marie Antoinette Murphy.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I have repeatedly asked the Government to be open and clear on its decision to impose VAT on food supplements. The Minister for Finance has repeatedly hidden behind the Revenue Commissioners on this but, as I have said repeatedly, Revenue does not make policy but implements policy determined by this House. The health food industry is worried about the Minister for Finance's repeated...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussion with the President of the European Council. [46454/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I wish to put on the record of the House my own and my party's appreciation for the understanding and solidarity we have received as a nation from the outgoing European Council President, Mr. Donald Tusk. The clarity of his utterances, sometimes regarded as less than absolutely diplomatic, were helpful during a period when issues of fundamental importance for this country were at play. He...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Motor on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I join others in congratulating the Ceann Comhairle and RTÉ on facilitating real innovation in the form of the Youth Assembly on climate action, which has presented a challenge to all of us. The Ceann Comhairle wants to bring forward the conclusions of that assembly for action. The recently introduced climate action plan contains a target to retrofit 50,000 homes per year by 2021....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: It is in Enniscorthy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: And coal.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: The Government should ban coal in that case, if it means nothing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach announced he was going to ban it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Everybody knows that banning bituminous coal is important.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: What about apprenticeships for retrofitting?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: What about the question on apprenticeships?