Results 18,701-18,720 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Yes; I will do that for Report Stage.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: No, because it is very important. If I withdrew the amendment, then the status quowould prevail and, we would be back to the confidential recipient and all that malarkey.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I am going to make the amendment now. If I can, I will refine it later.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Then we will vote.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: It is very important that we signal what is the case with regard to GSOC, and we do not want any ambivalence about that.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: It will be because of a formal Government decision. I am telling the committee formally, on behalf of the Government, that it will be. Unless the Deputies are going to accuse me of bad faith, that is what I am telling them.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I am going to put the amendment now and I am going to get advice to see-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Again, I appreciate the intent behind the Deputy's amendment. As she rightly said, these are matters normally dealt with by my Department on an administrative basis. The Deputy can be sure we will be keeping a watching brief on this as it is one of our flagship pieces of legislation. However, I do not want to take this prescription. I was thinking in terms of amending the normal public...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I am not going to take the prescriptive 12-monthly reporting in the way it is laid out in the amendment. I would look for a way to ensure that, for example, the information the Deputy requested from the former Garda Commissioner would be in the public domain in any event. We should know how many disclosures or usages of the legislation happened in each public body. I will see if I can find...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: If I can find a suitable slot and wording for it. I do not want to give a commitment on which I cannot deliver, but I will address this issue if I can before Report Stage.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 24: In page 20, line 9, to delete "7 days" and substitute "21 days".We discussed interim relief at length in the House. I believed it to be important to have interim relief and I got the Government's agreement. However, the time limit for seeking interim relief as set out in the Bill is seven days. I am now advised that, in practice, it might take longer to make such...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The quantity of sums is-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: As the Deputy knows, the interim relief awards can be significant.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: One should not access a court that cannot award a quantity-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The Circuit Court sets its own time.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: No, not really.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: No.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Barristers would do this business regularly.