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Declaration by Leas-Cheann Comhairle (31 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It is a great pleasure for me to be the first to congratulate you on your election as Leas-Cheann Comhairle, an office about which I know something, as I was honoured to hold it during the lifetime of the previous Dáil. I wish you well and I know you will be a great credit to the House in exercising the responsibilities and duties of the office.

Making Committees Work in the 31st Dáil: Statements (31 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We are at a critical juncture in our history and our democracy. The scale and depth of the crisis that has engulfed our State has undermined confidence in our public institutions. The political culture that captured the previous Government and allowed this crisis to happen — a culture of golden circles, of impunity, of conflating party political interest with the national interest — has...

Making Committees Work in the 31st Dáil: Statements (31 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I thank all Deputies who participated in this short but useful debate. I apologise for not being present throughout, but there were other things happening today that involved Ministers. I do not want to downplay the importance of this debate in any way. I am very passionate about the role of Parliament. We have not focused enough on the rebalancing of Parliament and the Executive. In the...

Banks Recapitalisation and Restructuring: Statements (31 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: They speak highly of the Deputy.

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I understood there was to be a ten minute concluding contribution from the Government side. Is that not to be?

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It is hard to wrap up over two days but I will do my best.

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I will probably work in my Department on Saturday and Sunday in any case.

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: While I concur with Deputy Higgins that people continue to be scandalised by the amount of money the public purse was required to contribute to maintain a functioning banking system, he is incorrect to suggest the full figure amounts to €70 billion or that the current bailout amounts to €24 billion of public money ón chiste phoiblí, to use the Deputy's words. As he knows, a number of...

Order of Business (7 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Caoimhghín had so much more gravitas.

Order of Business (7 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It is not badger time either.

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Let us try it out.

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: They are coming, too.

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: What was the Deputy's comment on slow learners?

Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister for Finance.

Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: And writing for the Sunday Independent.

Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: During the appointment process.

Commission of Inquiry into Banking Sector: Statements (20 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I thank all Deputies for their contributions which have been useful. I understand the frustration of some. I accept Deputy Arthur Spring's point that we need detailed consideration of this matter and I hope that can happen within the committee system of the House. I hope the committees, once they are up and running, will have new powers to carry out the in-depth analysis for which Deputies...

Commission of Inquiry into Banking Sector: Statements (20 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: That is my view and I am entitled to it. Its introduction, the report states, was based on "very deficient information" and a lack of suspicion. The commission finds that crisis management in Ireland was rendered less than fully effective by insufficient appreciation of bank exposures on the part of all the relevant authorities and that decision-makers and their advisers during that fateful...

Commission of Inquiry into Banking Sector: Statements (20 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy can shout us down if he likes.

Commission of Inquiry into Banking Sector: Statements (20 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The decision made was catastrophic. We need to get behind the information the Government had available to it on that fateful night because it is the view of the commission in the report before the House that the decision was taken on the basis of inadequate information. The commission's report notes that the authorities had developed, in line with EU requirements, a framework for...