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Finance Bill 2011: Committee Stage (26 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I do not think the Minister of State is in a position to answer particular questions relating to correspondence the Deputy has had with the Minister. They cannot be answered on the floor of the House now. I ask the Deputy to deal with the specific details of section 68.

Finance Bill 2011: Committee Stage (26 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: This is not the occasion to question the Minister of State on those positions.

Finance Bill 2011: Committee Stage (26 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Notice will be taken for report of the Minister's announcements. Is the instruction to the Ceann Comhairle acceptable?

Finance Bill 2011: Committee Stage (26 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: That is agreed.

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (26 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question 252 of 5 May 2010, the reason the application for a certificate of naturalisation from a person (details supplied) is still awaiting a decision 32 months after its submission to him; if he will specify the particular aspects of the matter that account for this delay while later applicants known to...

Finance Bill 2011: Motion. (27 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It follows automatically.

Finance Bill 2011: Motion. (27 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It is always the sequence.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Amendments Nos. 6 to 17 will be discussed together.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It includes amendments Nos. 6 to 17, inclusive.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I should advise that we are dealing with this amendment, No. 17, as part of a group on which the decision on Report Stage, by order of the House, will be made in two minutes' time.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: If the Deputy will allow me to explain-----

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We will then move on to the next Stage, once Report Stage is completed, and that will conclude the Bill as far as this House is concerned. It is a matter for the other House to make recommendations, and if it does so the Bill will come back to this House. By way of procedure, however, once an amendment is dealt with on Report Stage, it is dealt with.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I ask Deputy Doherty to be brief.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Very good. As the time permitted for debate on the amendments offered to Part 1 of the Bill has expired, I am required to put the following question in accordance with the order of the Dáil of this day: "That the amendments set down by the Minister for Finance and not disposed of, including those in respect of which recommital would in the normal course be required, are hereby made to Part...

Leaders' Questions (15 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: He could have waited a week.

Programme for Government: Motion (15 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I shall start by addressing the very last words uttered by Deputy Ó Cuív, while acknowledging his classical scholarship. It certainly was not this Government that cast any doubt on the view of Ireland's corporation tax rate. That was, as he knows, put on the table by others. I am not absolutely certain of Sinn Féin's position, but I believe that all parties in this House hold that the...

European Council Meetings (29 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: That is a great help.

Tribunals of Inquiry (29 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Like the answers the Deputy himself gives.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy was obviously not listening.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We are still on the Order of Business.