Results 16,521-16,540 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Two hours have been provided for today's debate.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: That is not true.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: That has nothing to do with it.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Please, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: No shouting down, remember.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: They are grandstanding.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: There is no proposed composition in the Bill.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy was on the wrong side of the debate.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I have listened for 20 minutes.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: It is very hard to listen in silence to some contributions.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I will do my very best. We have been working on this Bill for a considerable length of time - since the rejection by the people of the referendum in 2011 - to structure a framework for the holding of constitutional inquiries. One or two Deputies opposite seem to be under the illusion that this is a measure to set up a particular inquiry into one particular issue. It is overarching...
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: A former DPP.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Any inquiry.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach did not make any criminal charges against anyone that I heard. He made a political charge on the Order of Business. As I instanced, it is a normal expectation that such cut and thrust would be made during Prime Minister's Question Time and the notion this would impact on the British inquiry system would not arise. I do not want to go into the inquiry on banking which, as the...
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We asked Behaviour & Attitudes for a complete analysis and presented the findings to a public expenditure and reform committee which had a very robust debate. It was important to look behind why people made the decision, particularly if anybody was thinking of running the referendum again. My judgment on this is that we must prove the House capable of doing the normal work of...
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Article 15.11.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: That is not always true.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: It was deeply political.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Why?
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Why was Deputy Donnelly there?