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Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: We cannot hear the Taoiseach.

Military Medical Services. (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: I want to allow a brief supplementary question.

Army Barracks. (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: Allow the Minister to conclude.

Crime Prevention. (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is giving information rather than asking for it.

Crime Prevention. (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: We are well over time. I will take a final supplementary question from Deputy Deenihan.

Crime Prevention. (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: In view of the importance of this question, I will allow a final brief supplementary question from Deputies O'Shea and Durkan.

Departmental Staff. (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: That is beyond the scope of the question.

Departmental Staff. (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: We have time for one brief supplementary question. There is no point in going on to another question in the remaining 90 seconds.

Adjournment Debate Matters (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Lucinda Creighton — the urgent need for an investigation by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government into the practices in the Dublin City Council planning department which arrived at such an...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: This is the worse position in the history of the country.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: Is the collapse of the construction industry a good thing?

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: Fianna Fáil brought us to this.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to share time with Deputy Michael D. Higgins.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: I will begin with the closing point of the Minister of State. We need an election because the current Government has no mandate for what it is doing. The notion that any democrat would regard seeking the view of the people and the endorsement of the people for such a policy platform as some sort of diversion is somebody who does not understand the meaning of a democratic mandate. We are in...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: That is right.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: Hear, hear.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: Correct.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy must speak through the Chair. That is the way we operate in the House.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Blaney did give a standing ovation to the Budget Statement.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: My God.