Results 10,941-10,960 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: We are living longer with the health services.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: You are caught in a time warp.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: We are living longer.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: That is very decent of the Deputy.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I will explain it to the Deputy.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: They are living longer in retirement now than their entire working life in some instances.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: That is the new reality, thank God.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: That has been paid for.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Forever.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Did the Deputy say the markets?
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I sincerely thank Deputy Murphy for getting me an audience. I thank all the Deputies who contributed to the debate. We need to have more discussion but it should be predicated on honesty. Both Government parties said during the election campaign that they would tell the people the truth about our economic circumstances and that we would not give them false hope or pretend that there was an...
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Let us be honest with people about where we have to go, what we have to do and the level of pain people are enduring and will have to endure. I disagree with very little that Deputy Catherine Murphy said. She is absolutely correct about Anglo Irish Bank. We should never have nationalised its indebtedness.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It was a disastrous strategy, but we are stuck with it now. It has already cost the taxpayers and people dearly. We need the strategic investment bank and we are determined to have it. Her attitude to Europe is correct. I re-read as part of a debate earlier the speeches of the founding fathers of the European Community. We have gone a long way from that. We need to have leadership in...
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I waited to see what his first sentence would be in his best, dramatic Kerry tradition, whether the Labour Party's treachery was "profound" or "monumental". It is always one or the other. Today it was "profound". I could refer to parts of the document I would criticise. The one thing he criticised was the increase in the age for the old age pension between now and 2028. It is going up in...
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Does Deputy Higgins have any idea how much life expectancy has increased since then? Many people now live longer than their working career. There is an economic reality about the affordability of pensions into the future. It was designed for a different time but on this as on so many issues Deputy Higgins is caught in a time warp.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: People deserve to hear a different rhetoric in 2011, one based on the realities they face now.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: In his contribution, Deputy Mattie McGrath said the deal must be abandoned as it is a bad one. It was not a good deal. It is not a good place for us to be in but we need money at affordable rates now to pay for our services and to provide for the things we need to do and to incrementally get ourselves out of that hole and out of those clutches. I say to all of those who suggest we should...
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It was not much of a secret.
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: What do we do?
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is only allowed to ask one question.