Results 23,981-24,000 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister of State without interruption.
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: Allow Members to be heard.
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: I must call the next speaker.
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: All remaining speakers in this slot will have only two minutes to contribute. Deputies will squeeze others out if they go over time.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: Who scripted that?
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: That is patently absurd.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister is shooting the messenger.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: That is no problem at all for the Minister.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister has clearly misjudged not just the mood of the House, but the mood of the country with regard to these matters. The country is scandalised by the hurt caused to individuals. It is only through a cursory throwaway remark that the Minister finally gets around to apologising to them. He did not apologise in his main speech or contribution, which was reserved for his political...
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: Mr. Justice Morris did not understand the position, but the Minister did.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: On a point of order, he did not even know the name of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges. He called it the committee on practice and procedure and misunderstood the position.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: How else would we have investigated them? The Minister should stop hiding behind the book. How would we have investigated them?
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: How should we have inquired? Should we not have called in the Minister?
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister made no comment on Abbeylara nor did he give his view as asked.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: What did he want?
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: Should we have done the same for all allegations? That is a twisted, mean view.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: I propose to give two minutes of my time to the leader of the Labour Party, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, with the agreement of the House. The final reports of the Morris tribunal are at last before the House and I regret the time is so short for me to contribute to this debate. It seems to have been an extraordinarily long and painful process for many people, not least myself. Six and a half years...
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister stated he had changed one word of it but other than that, it was a creation of his Department.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Brendan Howlin: In essence, the Minister has compounded everything he has done because the criticism of Jim Higgins and me, of all the issues that were investigated, was that in this narrow instance, we should have caused "inquiries, interviews, correspondence or meetings in relation to the allegations before taking them further". In other words, we should have done so before taking them to the Minister for...