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Seanad: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (20 Nov 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The emphasis on the public interest as proposed in the amendment is exactly my intention in advancing the legislation. There is staidness with long titles. Having had our discussion on Committee Stage, I consulted officials in the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to see if they could facilitate this change. However, they regard this as declaratory, almost promotional and outside what is...

Seanad: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 Oct 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I am grateful to Senator Zappone and her colleagues for tabling this amendment, which seeks an extension to the Long Title of the Bill. The new elements included in the amendment correspond closely to what is acknowledged as the fundamental objectives which I have set out for this legislation, namely, the promotion of openness, accountability and transparency and the prevention of...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Brendan Howlin: -----namely, people who have long-standing grievances where one might say, "Listen, you might sort him or her out as this has been going on for a long time."

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jun 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 272. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff in receipt of special leave with pay who are suffering from long-Covid; if it is intended to cease this payment for frontline staff who have contracted Covid while carrying out their duties; the supports he intends to offer such staff who continue to suffer long-term effects from Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 7, line 32, to delete "and".Amendment No. 4 seeks the insertion of a comma. Amendment No. 5 seeks to ensure that the long-term sustainability of the national lottery is safeguarded. I have reviewed this since the Second Stage debate and now believe that the long-term sustainability of the national lottery is a consideration that the regulator must in the...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I thank Senators for their remarks. These are important issues and I look forward to debating them with Senators over time when we crystallise some of our proposals. For a long time in advance of the election, I had been working on these ideas, so it is nice to have a chance to put them into action. I spent too long developing legislative ideas that went into the waste bin after spending a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (27 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ..., I would refer the Deputy to my reply on this issue (PQ 3066/13 - answered 23/01/13). The inclusion of a social clause in all public procurement contracts requiring that, for example, a quota of long-term unemployed be employed in the delivery of the contract poses a number of risks. In the current economic climate, and in particular bearing in mind the difficulties in the construction...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Feb 2019)

Brendan Howlin: ...Departments. Therefore, it is possible for Departments to have more than one Bill before a House at the same time. I have previously asked about the Judicial Council Bill 2017, which is long-promised and long-awaited legislation to ensure uniformity across the Judiciary, which is very important. I was told that, since the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill was before the Seanad,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...refer the Deputy to my reply on this issue (PQ 3066/13 - answered 23/01/13). The inclusion of a social clause in all public procurement contracts requiring that a quota young unemployed people or long-term unemployed be employed in the delivery of the contract poses a number of risks. Firstly, it is against EU Treaty principles to discriminate between people on the basis of age....

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (17 Jun 2008)

Brendan Howlin: Question 816: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in September 2007 his Department was processing long term residency applications received in July 2006 and that nine months later in May 2008 his Department had only reached applications received in August 2006; the current waiting time for processing of applications for...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Brendan Howlin: ...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 Europe that offers real solidarity to bring us out of the hole we are in. I served long with Deputy Higgins on the administrative council of the...

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Mr. Higgins has a long-standing tradition in the areas of human rights and international policy. He has informed my party's opinion on these matters for many years. It is from a related position that the Tánaiste, representing Ireland, is at the forefront in seeking to have agreement across all nations on the long-awaited international recognition of an independent and sovereign state of...

Garda Reform: Statements (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Howlin: ...with the Garda Conciliation Council concerning new regulations. When will these ongoing discussions come to a conclusion? When can we have regulations that are appropriate to today? It is a long time since the original Morris tribunal was established. It is a long time since its first report. However, changing things seems worse than trying to turn a tanker, so the status quo...

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Court of Appeal last week struck down a key provision of the Mental Health Act 2001. This legislation, namely section 15(3), covered the long-term detention of people in psychiatric institutions. The making of orders extending periods of detention by up to 12 months was ruled to be unconstitutional. There is a six-month delay in the ruling coming into effect. There are currently 78...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (20 Jan 2016)

Brendan Howlin: The levels of investment provided for in the Capital Plan must be put into context and set against a backdrop of long term public investment policy.  Exchequer capital investment peaked in 2008 at over €9 billion. This was at the end of a period of unprecedented levels of public capital funding that were directed towards addressing long-standing infrastructural deficits....

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (26 Feb 2008)

Brendan Howlin: ...the terms of the health repayment scheme; her further views on the introduction of a further health repayment scheme to afford equity of treatment of persons who paid fees in respect of private long stay beds only because no public long stay beds were made available to them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7423/08]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...drive it. I wish to ask about capital works that were promised. For example, €450,000 has been allocated for the Lourdes day care centre on Seán McDermott Street. That capital project is long overdue. Other major projects include the Rutland Street school, which is to be a multipurpose facility with a community base for the area; the Magdalen convent and its grounds; and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Brendan Howlin: ...early in the year, as the Deputy will be aware. That is the way the process is structured. If it needs to be structured differently, let us have a debate about that. This has been the way for as long as I have been a Member and I am sure long before that. Supplementary Estimates are introduced at the end of the financial year when the full picture is determined because quite often...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...acquire the skills necessary to compete for the jobs that are now being created in this economy. A total of €12 million has been allocated for the JobPath initiative next year. This will match the long-term unemployed with appropriate training and employment opportunities, allowing them to get back to work. We are also doubling the number of positions for the long-term unemployed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement (30 Jan 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...reply on this issue (PQ 3066/13 - answered 23/01/13). The range of social considerations that could be relevant for procurement includes promoting employment opportunities for young unemployed or long-term unemployed and promoting compliance with core labour standards. In this regard the standard template contracts issued by the National Procurement Service (NPS) in 2012 include...