Results 9,121-9,140 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: Please allow Deputy Gilmore.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: Please allow Deputy Gilmore without interruption. Deputy Gilmore is in possession and Members will not be shouted down.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: Minister, please allow Members to speak without interruption.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: Deputy Gilmore is in possession.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: Will the Minister allow Deputy Gilmore to continue without interruption?
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: Will the Minister resume his seat?
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: I ask the Minister to have some regard for the Chair.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: Please allow Deputy Ciarán Lynch without interruption.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: That is not a point of order as the Minister knows.
- Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements. (11 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy can speak for herself.
- Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements. (11 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak in this debate. No more than the committee's distinguished former Chair, sometimes my party doubted during our deliberations whether we would reach this point. I am glad we not only reached it but did so on the basis of a consensus. Important work was done. The fact that we in the committee met every Wednesday almost always in private so there...
- Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements. (11 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: -----and to fulfil its mandate to completion and have itself abolished. In and of itself, that is novel. The background dates back as far as, and probably much further than, the starting point instanced by the Chairman of the committee, Deputy O'Rourke, that is, the report on the Kilkenny incest case by Ms Justice Catherine McGuinness, then a senior counsel. I was Minister for Health at...
- Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements. (11 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: She was part of a team that produced an effective and compelling report in a short period of time. That put the requirement for constitutional change on the agenda for the first time, and we have been debating it in some shape or form since. I hope we are now getting to the final stages of the debate so that we can get to a point of engaging with the people because their sovereign decision...
- Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements. (11 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: I can inform the House that the report has been fully debated by the Labour Party. It has been tabled, debated and endorsed by the parliamentary party. I can end my contribution by giving a commitment that if the Government brings forward this wording in a constitutional Bill, we will support the Bill and campaign for the enactment of these provisions in our Constitution. I sincerely hope...
- Agri-Environment Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: Allow the Minister to reply.
- Agri-Environment Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: Deputy Creed should not shout down the Minister. Everyone will get a chance to speak.
- Fishing Industry Development. (11 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: Has the Deputy a question?
- Fishing Industry Development. (11 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: Allow the Minister of State to reply.
- Food Industry. (11 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: The Chair will afford great latitude as always.
- Food Industry. (11 Mar 2010)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputies is aware he cannot quote a question.