Results 27,481-27,500 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach raised the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: This was an important new announcement in the budget last week. Will the Taoiseach confirm that we are talking about additional and new money and not money that has already been allocated across Departments for Border or cross-Border projects? Is there a breakdown, even in indicative terms, of how the proposed €500 million investment will be deployed? It would be useful for us to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: What about oversight?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: What about the EU programme body?

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I want to focus very briefly on the European Council, which was the question asked. The Taoiseach touched on three outstanding issues in respect of Brexit, namely, oversight, fisheries and a level playing field. I do not have time to go into them in detail. We went through them in detail earlier today in discussions at the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs with the House of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Brexit Negotiations: Members of the House of Lords (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I thank Lord Kinnoull and the members of the committee for giving their time. In response to Lord Wood, we too are a very balanced committee, politically speaking, as all political parties are represented. We are also all balanced in our views on Brexit, in that across the political spectrum we are all opposed to it. That is representative of the view of Ireland. We have been grappling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Brexit Negotiations: Members of the House of Lords (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I fully endorse everything that Senator Chambers and Deputy Richmond have said. We really must think of a new paradigm of Irish-British relations, and that is a big job of work, but my concern now is the immediacy of the sundering of relations on 1 January next. Historically, we have had patches of poor relations but we have spent more than 20 years building the closest of relationships...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Living City Initiative (22 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the Living City Initiative to further large towns such as Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32113/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (22 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 179. To ask the Minister for Health when the reduction in the drugs payment scheme to €114, as announced in budget 2020, will be applied in view that it was to be applied from 01 September 2020 and which has not taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32141/20]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I am happy to have an opportunity to speak, even briefly, on this Bill. Every member of the Labour Party and, I suspect, the vast majority of Members of the House have the gravest concerns about this type of legislation. If he was not in ministerial office, I believe the current Minister for Health would be among those voicing the concerns. In any normal circumstances we would not...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I believe Deputy Shortall's amendment is being taken in this group. I would have no difficulty if the Leas-Cheann Comhairle wishes to call her first.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I just thought that would make sense because that amendment was in the group. I will take my slot now that I have it and I will try to be brief. During my nine terms in this House, my approach has always been that everybody is here on their own mandate and entitled to their own views. The notion that Deputies come in here to tell other people how they should think and what is right or...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 4 o’clock On a point of order-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to Covid-19: Discussion (28 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I will begin where Deputy Richmond ended, on the topic of health competencies. That was the reason, I was going to say excuse, given for the slow initial response at EU level to the crisis. From the data and polling Ms O'Connell presented, health competency has impacted to varying degrees but uniformly negatively on people's image of the union. Even where there is no formal health...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commission on the Future of Policing (3 Nov 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 178. To ask the Taoiseach if he has further considered the report of the commission on policing in Ireland; his plans to implement its main recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32468/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Brexit Data (3 Nov 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 233. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the details of the most recent estimate undertaken by his Department on the impact of Brexit post-January 2021 on employment by sector and region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33655/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Brexit Data (3 Nov 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 234. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the details of the analysis undertaken by his Department to date on the impact of Brexit post-January 2021 on youth unemployment; the specific measures being implemented to mitigate this impact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33656/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Imports and Exports Data (3 Nov 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether Ireland has the capacity post-January 2021 to have an uninterrupted continuation of the import and export of goods to continental Europe by sea; the analysis done by his Department on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33658/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (3 Nov 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 344. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that applicants who have being given a date for their driver theory test and who have had them cancelled due to the level 5 restrictions are now being given replacement dates well into the new year; his views on whether it would be fairer to simply push all applications back for the duration...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Bodies (3 Nov 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 462. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the SEUPB will operate post-Brexit; if it will continue to be jointly chaired by him and the Northern Ireland Finance Minister; if changes are to be made in its operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32784/20]